Circuit Zandvoort, Sunday, 27 August

Hear from McLaren Formula 1 drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, and Team Principal Andrea Stella after the Dutch Grand Prix.

As it happened

• The race begins and Lando holds P2, while Oscar drops down one place to P9
• Rain starts to fall on Lap 1. Both drivers keep the Soft tyres on but begin to lose places. Lando is P12, and Oscar P16
• With the rain getting heavier, Lando pits for Inters
• The rain eases and the track begins to dry, so Lando pits again for Softs
• After the pit-stops phase, Lando and Oscar make a series of overtakes and reach P9 and P11
• The next round of pit-stops commence. Lando swaps for fresh Softs and Oscar for Mediums
• More rain arrives and both drivers box for Inters
• The rain is treacherous so the race is red flagged. Lando is P7 and Oscar P10
• Once the rain clears, the race resumes behind the Safety Car for a rolling start
• Russell retires due to a puncture, promoting Oscar to P9
• Both drivers hold position for the final few laps to finish P7 for Lando and P9 for Oscar

Started	2nd
Finished	7th
Fastest lap	1m14.390s on lap 50 (+0.553s, 6th)
Pit-stops	5, lap 3 [Soft/Inter] (2.84s), lap 10 [Inter/Soft] (3.37s), lap 42 [Soft/Soft] (2.27s), lap 60 [Soft/Inter] (3.12s) and lap 63 [Inter/Inter] (Under Red Flag)

"If I start by looking at the final positions, we got some points, which is a good thing but not as many as we should have got today. We made some incorrect decisions and on a day like today, that can win or lose you a lot of time. We were just on the losing end. We’ll review it, we’ll make sure we do a better job next time. I think it’s impossible to be perfect with this, it’s just about limiting your mistakes. We’ve got some work to do but we’re getting there.” 

Started	8th
Finished	9th
Fastest lap	1m14.299s on lap 54 (+0.462s, 5th)
Pit-stops	4, lap 15 [Soft/Soft] (2.27s), lap 46 [Soft/Medium] (2.43s), lap 60 [Medium/Inter] (3.15s), lap 63 [Inter/Inter] (Under Red Flag)

“P9, not the most straightforward of afternoons. I think we maybe could have taken a few more opportunities that were there but all-in-all not a terrible afternoon and definitely some things to learn from. At one point it was looking a lot worse so it was a nice comeback in the second half of the race and we’ll definitely learn what we could have done a bit differently before heading to Monza with the goal of scoring more points.”

“After a busy race, with changing weather conditions, we finish P7 and P9, scoring some important points. But the reality is we could have got more today as we missed a couple of opportunities.  

“With Lando, we hesitated too much at the start of the race before pitting for Intermediate tyres. On Oscar’s side we opted to stay out through the rain on dry tyres, where he did an excellent job. From there his race was unfolding well, but unfortunately he locked the front tyres, needed to pit and we lost the advantage gained. 

“We don’t give up. The good news is that the car was, again, quite competitive. So we will review where we could have improved and go again in Italy.”