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Fernando Alonso howled with rage when the Safety Car was first deployed during the Dutch Grand Prix.
The Aston Martin driver had pitted just five laps earlier and he feared the appearance of the Safety Car had ruined his race.
He got the first indication the bad news was coming when race engineer Andrew Vizard warned him: “Yellow at turn three, Hamilton in the wall.” Alonso vented his fury when Vizard confirmed “Safety Car, keep delta positive” shortly afterwards.
“Yep,” Vizard acknowledged. “No overtaking.”
“Fucking luck we have always, shit,” fumed Alonso. “Ah, fucking end of the race. Fucking lucky.”
The situation looked bad for Alonso at this point. Having started 10th he had immediately slipped three places and spent his opening stint trapped behind the drivers who overtook him.
Andrea Kimi Antonelli, immediately ahead of him, had been struggling in vain to pass Yuki Tsunoda, and Alonso could only look on as a gap opened up to Alexander Albon ahead in the final points place.
Aston Martin brought Alonso in on lap 18 for an aggressively early stop as he sought to gain the benefit of new tyres before the others. It worked to begin with: he gained a place from Tsunoda when the Red Bull driver pitted.
But once Hamilton crashed, Alonso knew it would allow those who had not yet pitted to do so and lose less time while the Safety Car was out. Sure enough, by the time the race restarted he was only 14th, a net loss of two positions given Hamilton’s retirement, and on older tyres than those around him.
Alonso got back into contention the hard way, making another early visit to the pits for his second tyre change. After that he managed to pass the Saubers and Franco Colapinto’s Alpine before the Safety Car was deployed again. This time he was close enough to benefit from cars ahead pitting and rose to ninth, but still faced a sprint to the flag on older tyres than those around him.
His team mate Lance Stroll was among those who were able to pit for fresh tyres in the final Safety Car period, as was one-stopping Oliver Bearman. Once they passed Alonso he was down to 11th.
But a final pass on Pierre Gasly, Lando Norris’s shock late exit from the race and Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s penalty meant he came away with eighth place. He must have hoped for more than ninth at one stage, and he can’t have been happy to lose points to his team mate who started nine places behind him, but it was a better result than he expected when the Safety Car first appeared.
“At the end, to be in the points, [eighth] is great and a nice result,” he reflected after the race, “but the afternoon was not easy.”
“I think the Safety Cars didn’t help. They were in the wrong time, at the wrong place. Some of the cars that finished in front of us, I think they were significantly slower than us, like the Haases. So we lost maybe an opportunity.”
2025 Dutch Grand Prix lap chart
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2025 Dutch Grand Prix pit stop times
How long each driver’s pit stops took:
Rank
#
Driver
Team
Complete stop time (s)
Gap to best (s)
Stop no.
Lap no.
1
16
Charles Leclerc
Ferrari
17.042
2
52
2
16
Charles Leclerc
Ferrari
17.081
0.039
1
22
3
63
George Russell
Mercedes
17.344
0.302
2
53
4
12
Andrea Kimi Antonelli
Mercedes
17.365
0.323
2
51
5
81
Oscar Piastri
McLaren
17.375
0.333
1
23
6
6
Isack Hadjar
Racing Bulls
17.414
0.372
1
23
7
14
Fernando Alonso
Aston Martin
17.417
0.375
1
18
8
12
Andrea Kimi Antonelli
Mercedes
17.476
0.434
1
23
9
5
Gabriel Bortoleto
Sauber
17.491
0.449
2
60
10
30
Liam Lawson
Racing Bulls
17.549
0.507
1
23
11
18
Lance Stroll
Aston Martin
17.561
0.519
1
8
12
43
Franco Colapinto
Alpine
17.586
0.544
2
53
13
18
Lance Stroll
Aston Martin
17.598
0.556
2
52
14
27
Nico Hulkenberg
Sauber
17.602
0.56
1
19
15
55
Carlos Sainz Jnr
Williams
17.67
0.628
1
23
16
23
Alexander Albon
Williams
17.84
0.798
2
53
17
5
Gabriel Bortoleto
Sauber
17.908
0.866
1
22
18
27
Nico Hulkenberg
Sauber
17.944
0.902
2
53
19
14
Fernando Alonso
Aston Martin
17.949
0.907
2
40
20
43
Franco Colapinto
Alpine
17.986
0.944
1
19
21
55
Carlos Sainz Jnr
Williams
18.043
1.001
4
65
22
43
Franco Colapinto
Alpine
18.077
1.035
3
65
23
22
Yuki Tsunoda
Red Bull
18.147
1.105
2
53
24
1
Max Verstappen
Red Bull
18.261
1.219
2
53
25
31
Esteban Ocon
Haas
18.27
1.228
1
52
26
22
Yuki Tsunoda
Red Bull
18.348
1.306
1
19
27
6
Isack Hadjar
Racing Bulls
18.535
1.493
2
53
28
30
Liam Lawson
Racing Bulls
18.552
1.51
3
52
29
81
Oscar Piastri
McLaren
18.589
1.547
2
53
30
87
Oliver Bearman
Haas
18.622
1.58
1
53
31
1
Max Verstappen
Red Bull
18.74
1.698
1
23
32
63
George Russell
Mercedes
18.832
1.79
1
23
33
10
Pierre Gasly
Alpine
19.223
2.181
1
23
34
23
Alexander Albon
Williams
19.692
2.65
1
23
35
4
Lando Norris
McLaren
20.042
3
1
23
36
12
Andrea Kimi Antonelli
Mercedes
21.36
4.318
3
53
37
30
Liam Lawson
Racing Bulls
22.209
5.167
2
27
38
4
Lando Norris
McLaren
22.608
5.566
2
53
39
55
Carlos Sainz Jnr
Williams
29.443
12.401
2
27
40
55
Carlos Sainz Jnr
Williams
30.34
13.298
3
51
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