McLaren driver Oscar Piastri claimed his seventh victory of the F1 2025 season in the Dutch Grand Prix at the Zandvoort circuit.

Piastri took a significant step towards a first F1 World Championship on a day McLaren team-mate Lando Norris retired with an engine issue, with Red Bull driver Max Verstappen second and Isack Hadjar third for Racing Bulls. Here are our conclusions from the Netherlands…

Don’t let Lando Norris’s bad luck overshadow a significant Oscar Piastri statement

Lando Norris had not yet climbed out of his smoking McLaren at Zandvoort when the inevitable comparisons began.

This, some would have you believe, was Lando’s Malaysia 2016 moment, a sudden engine failure set to deny him this year’s world championship.

A deficit of 34 points with nine races (and three sprints)

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