Summary

Live Reporting

Gary Rose

  1. Contact between Liam Lawson and Carlos Sainz coming out of Turn One and they are dropping down the order!

  2. Go! Go! Go!

    The darker clouds are already giving away to so more blue sky now as the safety car comes in and Oscar Piastri blasts away to try and rebuild his lead.

  3. All the front runners have pitted for hards apart from Max Verstappen, who is on mediums.

    Safety car is coming in at the end of this lap.

  4. Hamilton out

    Lorraine McKenna
    BBC Sport Journalist in Zandvoort

    It’s Lewis Hamilton! Just at the exit at Turn Three but it wasn’t dramatic at all. The Ferrari driver is now climbing out of the car and that’s his Zandvoort day done.

    HamiltonBBC Sport

  5. Harry Benjamin
    BBC F1 Commentator

    Lewis Hamilton has found the wall, it looks like it's on the exit of Turn Three. It's quite an impact, his front wing and front right tyre is off.

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

    Lewis Hamilton went a bit too low on the banking and he had a snap. He went wide up above the white line, you just can't recover it and off he goes.

  7. This prompts a flurry of pit stops to move on to the hard tyres.

    Just checking the replays and the increasing rain may have played a part. He ran wide coming into Turn Three and then lost the rears and struck the barrier.

    Charles Leclerc had pitted just before and he's lost a place, dropping to sixth behind George Russell.

  8. Hamilton crashes

    Lewis Hamilton is into the barrier at Turn Three!

    The safety car is deployed.

    Lewis Hamilton picks up part of his front wing after crashing his Ferrari into the barrier during the Dutrch Grand PrixReuters

  9. 'Rain is much heavier now'

    Rosanna Tennant
    5 Live F1 reporter in Zandvoort

    The rain is much heavier now, it's really coming down. This is really interesting for those drivers that have just pitted, they may well be regretting it.

  10. Lando Norris is no longer pushing because the gap between himself and race leader Oscar Piastri is up to 3.5 seconds.

    Oscar PiastriGetty Images

  11. A few more pit stops - Yuki Tsunoda, Franco Colapinto and Nico Hulkenberg all heading in to pop on hards.

  12. Light drizzle

    Lorraine McKenna
    BBC Sport Journalist in Zandvoort

    The rain isn’t heavy, more like light drizzle. Which is good, because I’ve left my coat and brolly in the media centre. But the clouds are getting lower and darker as the laps tick by.

    RainBBC Sport

  13. Rain getting heavier?

    What was a few drops of rain looks like being upgraded to "that fine rain that soaks you through" as a few people in the grandstands pull out the ponchos.

  14. We could be approaching the first window for some stops as Fernando Alonso heads in, takes on some hards and heads back out again.

  15. 'It's the finest of raindrops'

    Rosanna Tennant
    5 Live F1 reporter in Zandvoort

    The rain has started to fall, it's the finest, finest raindrops. I had to come out of the media zone area just to check, but yes tiny spits of rain.

    Nothing too troubling at the moment, the cloud coverage is still here looking a little darker.

  16. Gabriel Bortoleto is under investigation because of "unsafe conditions" with that damaged front wing.

    Meanwhile, Kimi Antonelli has yet another nibble at Yuki Tsunoda but no dice.

  17. Franco Colapinto is on softs and his tyres are starting to drop off. His team-mate Pierre Gasly is behind him and Colapinto is told to swap positions for the faster driver.

  18. Lorraine McKenna
    BBC Sport Journalist in Zandvoort

    The rain is here!

  19. Rain arriving?

    Oscar Piastri reports a few drops of rain on his visor.

    His lead over Lando Norris is now down to three seconds.

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

    Kimi Antonelli just looks like he's stuck behind Yuki Tsunoda.

    Tsunoda is on the slower tyre at this point and they will be looking to pit soon.

    Antonelli just can't find a way past and it's really really hurting him at this stage in the race.