P1racenews AI automatic summary:
It was a record-equalling day for Oscar Piastri at the Dutch Grand Prix!
Oscar Piastri has taken control of the 2025 F1 drivers’ championship after a dominant performance at the Dutch Grand Prix. Despite benefiting from Lando Norris’s late engine failure, Piastri’s flawless display at Zandvoort was poised to extend his points lead over Norris to 16. With Norris’s DNF, Piastri’s lead has now surged to 34 points, as he achieved his first grand chelem in his career. Leading all 72 laps from pole position, Piastri clinched his seventh win of the season and set the fastest race lap, outpacing Norris by 0.108s. Piastri becomes the 27th driver in F1 history to secure a grand chelem in the 69th occurrence across 1,140 world championship grands prix. Following the footsteps of Australian legends Jack Brabham and Alan Jones, Piastri is now the frontrunner to become the next Australian F1 champion. Notably, Piastri’s achievement at Zandvoort marked McLaren’s first grand chelem in over 27 years, last accomplished by Mika Hakkinen at the 1998 Monaco Grand Prix.
