Summary

  • Lando Norris fastest in both Friday practice sessions

  • Lance Stroll crashes heavily in FP2 at Zandvoort

  • First F1 race since summer break

  • Oscar Piastri leads Norris by nine points in drivers' championship

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Live Reporting

Gary Rose

  1. That's a wrap

    The rain largely stayed away today but tomorrow could be a different story.

    We will be back with build up to final practice at 10:00 BST. See you then!

  2. Norris impresses in Friday practice for Dutch GP

    Andrew Benson
    BBC F1 correspondent

    Lando Norris led the way with an impressive performance in Friday practice at the Dutch Grand Prix as Formula 1 resumed after its summer break.

    The Briton was fastest in both practice sessions, from McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri in the first and Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso in the second.

    Norris was just 0.087 seconds faster than Alonso in the second session and led Piastri by 0.292secs in the first.

    Piastri, who leads Norris in the championship by nine points with 10 races to go, was third in the second session, 0.089secs off the Briton's pace.

    Lewis Hamilton had two spins in the Ferrari, one in each session, but ended the day sixth fastest, 0.096secs and two places ahead of team-mate Charles Leclerc.

    Mercedes' George Russell was fourth fastest in the second session, with the Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Yuki Tsunoda sandwiching Hamilton in fifth and seventh.

    Alonso's team-mate Lance Stroll had a heavy crash early in the second session, locking a brake on the entry to the heavily banked Hugenholtz hairpin and smashing into the barriers, destroying the right-hand side of his car.

    Stroll had underlined Aston Martin's pace with third fastest time in the first session, just ahead of Alonso.

    Alex Albon was another to crash in the second session in the Williams, going straight on at the first corner, Tarzan, and breaking his front wing against the barriers.

    Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli crashed in the first session, running off track at Turn Nine and ended the second session 12th.

    Read the full report here.

  3. A bit of a messy session in the end with a few drivers ending up off the track or having wobbles. It is windy there and that undoubtedly played a part.

  4. Rebecca Clancy
    F1 journalist on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Lots to look forward to this weekend, not least who will be the podium-filler, as I'm calling it.

  5. FP2 - the rest

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  6. Abbi Pulling
    F1 Academy champion on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    The Aston Martins look fast, it's a shame for Lance that he crashed. No surprise that the McLaren is in front.

  7. FP2 - top 10

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  8. chequered flag

    Chequered flag

    Lando Norris finishes fastest in second practice for the Dutch Grand Prix.

  9. Oscar Piastri briefly runs wide but no major drama. He's set to finish third quickest with Fernando Alonso splitting the McLarens.

  10. A couple of minutes left and there doesn't look to be anyone going for a fast lap, meaning Lando Norris is set to top this session as well.

  11. Rebecca Clancy
    F1 journalist on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Max Verstappen has 187 points this season, Yuki Tsunoda has 10. That gap is enormous and it's why Red Bull are currently sitting fourth in the constructors' championship. The money they are losing from not having a good enough second driver is enormous.

  12. Busy on the track now as most of the drivers want to squeeze in some more laps after losing a fair bit of time in this session due to a couple of red flags.

  13. It has all being going on in this session and there's just been a bit of chaos in the pits as Oscar Piastri initially pulls into one McLaren slot, but then is asked to go into the other one, resulting in George Russell nearly colliding with him.

  14. Blink and you’ll miss it

    Lorraine McKenna
    BBC Sport Journalist in Zandvoort

    I’ve wandered down by the start-finish straight and just before the red flag for Alex Albon, it took me on the eighth and ninth attempts to finally catch cars, Ollie Bearman and Kimi Antonelli, coming into the pits. The pit lane speed limit has been raised from 60km/h to 80km/h for this year’s race in the hope it will encourage different strategies.

    HaasBBC Sport
    MercedesBBC Sport

  15. Go! Go! Go!

    This stop-start session is back under way with 15 minutes remaining.

  16. Alex Albon climbs out of the car and leaves it to be picked up and removed as he walks back to the pits.

  17. red flag

    Red flag

    The session is red flagged again as Alex Albon goes into the gravel and nudges into the barrier. He tries to reverse and has a little success before digging himself further into the gravel.

  18. Oscar Piastri flying lap on the softs sees him go third quickest, 0.089s off Lando Norris' time. Fernando Alonso remains second quickest, splitting the McLarens to underline his impressive time.

  19. Lando Norris, on softs too, now goes quickest with 1:09.890 but Fernando Alonso is just 0.087s behind.

  20. Fernando Alonso dips below 1:10 as he clocks 1:09.977 to go fastest - a superb time as the majority of drivers now go for some fast laps on the softs.