Piastri wins Dutch GP as Norris’s McLaren breaks down

Norris’s rubric chances took a dense stroke erstwhile his McLaren broke down aft fume poured from the backmost of the car.

Oscar Piastri has won the Dutch Grand Prix to instrumentality a mighty 34-point pb successful the Formula One title arsenic McLaren teammate and rubric rival Lando Norris saw his hopes spell up successful smoke.

On a time of drama, with some Ferrari drivers crashing retired successful abstracted incidents, McLaren had been heading for a record-equalling 5th successive one-two triumph until Norris suffered precocious despair connected the way connected Sunday.

After saying helium could odor fume successful the cockpit, Norris slowed and retired from 2nd spot connected thigh 65 of 72 with disposable grounds coming retired of the backmost of his stricken car.

Norris was chasing Piastri precocious successful the contention erstwhile the British operator reported a “funny” odor successful his cockpit.

“I don’t cognize if I’m connected occurrence oregon not,” Norris said. Smoke poured from the backmost of the car, and helium had to stop.

Norris ended the contention lasting down a obstruction astatine the broadside of the way with contention marshals and his broken-down car.

Norris’s contention technologist tried to console him by telling him however bully his gait had been.

“Doesn’t matter,” Norris responded.

Piastri’s pb implicit second-placed Norris accrued from 9 points to 34 with 9 races remaining.

The Australian’s triumph required him to negociate 3 information car restarts, holding disconnected Norris doubly and past keeping rival Max Verstappen down him aft Norris’s breakdown.

“Nicely done, everybody, nicely done,” Piastri told the team. “Obviously, atrocious for Lando for what happened.”

Home leader Verstappen finished 2nd for Red Bull, with Racing Bulls’ French rookie Isack Hadjar taking his archetypal Formula One podium successful 3rd spot and punching the aerial successful delight.

Hadjar was lifted disconnected the crushed and slapped connected the backmost by a assemblage of jubilant squad members arsenic they celebrated the squad’s archetypal podium effect successful 4 years.

“That was ever the people since I was a kid, truthful this is the archetypal step,” Hadjar said.

Both Ferraris ended up successful the barriers successful the aforesaid spot. Lewis Hamilton deed the partition during a rainfall ablution successful different disappointing contention for Ferrari.

Teammate Charles Leclerc’s contention ended erstwhile helium was deed by Mercedes’s Andrea Kimi Antonelli and spun into the aforesaid barrier.

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