"I'm killing my tyres trying to keep up!"

Matt Hanford: Valtteri Bottas is driving like he's working an office job, had been told he's being let go, but the boss is making him work his notice.

Graham Knowles: Mercedes have made the same mistake today as they did in Monaco putting Lewis on the wrong tires too soon

Gary: I'm not sure if a spot for a Mercedes team strategist is coming up soon, but I'm pretty sure I could do a better job.

Mercedes have got it right a lot more times than wrong so don't think there will be a vacancy any time soon at the team that have won the drivers' and teams' titles in each of the past seven years.

Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

It is tight. Hamilton has just done the fastest lap, he has taken four tenths out of Verstappen's lead.

The gap is still 2.6 seconds at the moment. So whilst he doesn't think the tyres will make it and he thinks Red Bull are super quick, he's keeping Verstappen very, very honest.

Hamilton is doing what he can to keep this interesting. The gap is down to 2.3 seconds as he hopes Verstappen does something wrong.

Sheer perfection from Verstappen so far today though.

Those radio messages are sounding more and more anxious from Lewis Hamilton. We've all learned, many times over, to never write off the Briton though.

"[Red Bull] are just so fast."

"No power," says the Alpha Tauri driver, who had been down in 16th and he joins Nikita Mazepin in not finishing today.

Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

Hamilton should be able to get his tyres to the end. I'm fairly sure he can and he's just come through and done the fastest first sector of the whole grand prix - so it's not too bad for him.

Ian Warrender: Norris did 42 Laps on the Medium so Hamilton can make it to the end, if not at the fastest pace. Top 3 looks decided to me.

Peter Stewart: Should/could Lewis have overridden the strategy call. He has done it before. Could have made a difference.

Chris Thomas: Only way Hamilton wins now is a Safety Car. Bottas crash incoming???

A good effort from Lando Norris and he's up to ninth from starting in 13th, while Perez is hunting the points after starting from the pits.

Perez passes Russell and is 11th.

Verstappen, on the hards, is 3.8 seconds clear of Lewis Hamilton on the mediums.

Valtteri Bottas with a very quiet race is 10 seconds further away.

Pierre Gasly is fourth, where he started, and that would be another brilliant result for the Alpha Tauri man.

The Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz are fifth and sixth respectively.

"I'm not going to make it to the end on these tyres."

Jeremiah Kariuki: Hamilton has the fastest lap for now. Trust Red Bull to use Perez for that one point even if he going to finish out of the points positions!

Nulla Pax: No retirements on a new, tight, track. I was expecting more problems than this.

Chris Wignall: I'm not sure there was any strategy that could win Hamilton the race, but pitting from three seconds behind into traffic was definitely not it.

We've never had a Dutch winner of the Dutch Grand Prix. Max Verstappen is 25 laps away from changing that.

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Jack Nicholls
BBC Radio 5 Live F1 commentator

Lewis Hamilton is really not happy with this Mercedes strategy here...

Hydraulic issue. He's the first to drop out today.

Hamilton: "There's a damn long way to go on this tyre, man!"

Engineer: "Copy that, Lewis. We will be monitoring that."

What do Mercedes do now? They've stopped Hamilton twice. Verstappen is on hard tyres that should go to the end, Hamilton's mediums may not do so.

Mercedes need something that we've not seen much this season - a Verstappen mistake.

"We haven't got an advantage. They have called our bluff on this."