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Last Updated: 20/08/23 11:43am

The Formula 1 season is back for more drama at the Dutch Grand Prix on Sunday 27th August.

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The Formula 1 season is back for more drama at the Dutch Grand Prix on Sunday 27th August.

The Formula 1 season is back for more drama at the Dutch Grand Prix on Sunday 27th August.

F1’s summer break is nearly over: the 10-race run-in to the end of the season starts in the Netherlands and historic Zandvoort on August 25-27.

After the factory shutdowns and holidays, the season will resume with the chasing pack aiming to change a narrative which has seen Red Bull win every race so far – and runaway title leader Max Verstappen the last eight.

Verstappen’s hunt for a record-equalling nine on the spin takes him back to home soil and a race in front of his ‘Orange Army’, who have made the venue by the dunes of the North Sea coast one of the sport’s noisiest and atmospheric since Zandvoort returned to F1 for the first time in three decades in 2021.

The penultimate European round of the season sees familiar start times for UK audiences live on Sky Sports F1:

  • Qualifying on August 26 starts at 2pm, with build-up from 1.15pm
  • The race starts at 2pm on August 27, with build-up from 12.30pm

While Verstappen, also eyeing a hat-trick of home wins, will inevitably start as favourite, the pre-summer break battle behind the Dutchman continued to be unpredictable.

The best of the action from the 2022 Dutch Grand Prix where Max Verstappen narrowly fended off George Russell

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The best of the action from the 2022 Dutch Grand Prix where Max Verstappen narrowly fended off George Russell

The best of the action from the 2022 Dutch Grand Prix where Max Verstappen narrowly fended off George Russell

Five different drivers from five different teams finished second to Verstappen in the space of six races, bunching up the standings in the battle for the other leading positions in the Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championships.

Old rivals Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton are separated by just a point in third and fourth places respectively, while Aston Martin are coming under pressure from Ferrari for their position behind Red Bull and Mercedes in the constructors’.

Watch the most viral moments so far from the 2023 Formula 1 season.

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Watch the most viral moments so far from the 2023 Formula 1 season.

Watch the most viral moments so far from the 2023 Formula 1 season.

Sky Sports F1’s live Dutch GP schedule

THURSDAY 24TH AUGUST

1pm: Drivers’ Press Conference

FRIDAY 25TH AUGUST

9am: F2 Practice
11am: Dutch GP Practice One (session starts 11.30am)
12.55pm: F2 Qualifying
2.45pm: Dutch GP Practice Two (session starts 3pm)
4.15pm: The F1 Show

SATURDAY 26TH AUGUST

10.15am: Dutch GP Practice Three (session starts 10.30am)
12.10pm: F2 Sprint Race
1.15pm: Dutch GP Qualifying build-up
2pm: Dutch GP Qualifying

SUNDAY 27TH AUGUST

8.55am: F2 Feature Race
12.30pm: Grand Prix Sunday: Dutch GP build-up
2pm: THE DUTCH GRAND PRIX
4pm: Chequered Flag: Dutch GP reaction

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