Team radio - Hamiltonpublished at 15:12 British Summer Time 5 September 2021
"I'm killing my tyres trying to keep up!"
Summary
Verstappen wins home race amid huge celebrations and flares
Hamilton takes fastest lap point after Bottas defiantly tries to take it away late on
Mazepin, Tsunoda out
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Team radio - Hamiltonpublished at 15:12 British Summer Time 5 September 2021
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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.
Postpublished at 15:10 British Summer Time 5 September 2021
Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports ExtraIt 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.
Postpublished at Lap 53/72
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.
Postpublished at 15:09 British Summer Time 5 September 2021
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.
Team radio - Hamiltonpublished at 15:08 British Summer Time 5 September 2021
"[Red Bull] are just so fast."
Trying everything to close the gappublished at 15:07 British Summer Time 5 September 2021
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End of twitter postTsunoda outpublished at 15:07 British Summer Time 5 September 2021
"No power," says the Alpha Tauri driver, who had been down in 16th and he joins Nikita Mazepin in not finishing today.
Postpublished at 15:06 British Summer Time 5 September 2021
Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports ExtraHamilton 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.
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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???
Postpublished at Lap 50/72
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.
What's going on?published at Lap 49/72
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.
Team radio - Hamiltonpublished at 15:04 British Summer Time 5 September 2021
"I'm not going to make it to the end on these tyres."
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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.
Postpublished at Lap 47/72
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 commentatorLewis Hamilton is really not happy with this Mercedes strategy here...
Mazepin outpublished at 15:01 British Summer Time 5 September 2021
Hydraulic issue. He's the first to drop out today.
Team radio - Hamiltonpublished at 15:00 British Summer Time 5 September 2021
Hamilton: "There's a damn long way to go on this tyre, man!"
Engineer: "Copy that, Lewis. We will be monitoring that."
Postpublished at Lap 45/72
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.
Team radio - Hamiltonpublished at 14:59 British Summer Time 5 September 2021
"We haven't got an advantage. They have called our bluff on this."