As champion-elect Verstappen took his 10th win of the F1 season in front of his home crowd, several others made the headlines for different reasons. Here's 10 things we learned from the DutchGP weekend:
But Spa and Zandvoort now show that Alpine is a far slicker operation on track - even if its handling of the driver market has been woeful. To overcome a poor qualifying aslined up 12th, one spot ahead of teammate Fernando Alonso, the duo started on softs like most others. But then came the inspired change to hard tyres for a long middle stint.
What we didn't learn during the Dutch GP weekend is that Oscar Piastri will race for McLaren in 2023, because that was already very much on the cards. The Australian had taken to social media to rather publicly declare he wouldn't be belting up for Alpine next season.
Perhaps more intriguing, as the rumour mill kicked into overdrive concerning any looming Ricciardo and McLaren break-up, the driver felt compelled to state his commitment to the cause and to finding a resolution to his underperformance. Ricciardo therefore issued a social media post reaffirming the security of his position. He posted:"I am committed to McLaren until the end of next year and am not walking away from the sport.
Porsche, it appears, wants to be much more hands on than Red Bull would like - with the preferred option surely to take the millions of euros and Porsche stickers plus headed note paper, but to continue as a highly successful autonomous operation. As a result, for a union that was once assumed to be nothing more than a poorly kept secret, it now seems as though Porsche is just a likely to be jilted as it is to be wedded.
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