Norris dominated Zandvoort from pole to victory and is running away with RaceFans' Driver of the Weekend poll at 49 percent, but the real story sits in second place. Andrea Kimi Antonelli, the Mercedes rookie, qualified third and finished second after teammate Russell waved him through late in the race. That P3-to-P2 performance earned Antonelli four percent of the vote — modest in raw numbers, but the optics tell a different story. Russell's decision to cede the position has already sparked debate about whether Mercedes put George at risk to protect the rookie's momentum. Further back, Alonso's recovery from eighteenth on the grid to ninth at the flag pulled eighteen percent of the vote, second only to Norris. Verstappen's DNF barely registers. The championship math tightens every weekend Norris stays clean and Max doesn't finish.
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Norris dominated Zandvoort from pole to victory and is running away with RaceFans' Driver of the Weekend poll at 49 percent, but the real story sits in second place. Andrea Kimi Antonelli, the Mercedes rookie, qualified third and finished second after teammate Russell waved him through late in the race. That P3-to-P2 performance earned Antonelli four percent of the vote — modest in raw numbers, but the optics tell a different story. Russell's decision to cede the position has already sparked debate about whether Mercedes put George at risk to protect the rookie's momentum. Further back, Alonso's recovery from eighteenth on the grid to ninth at the flag pulled eighteen percent of the vote, second only to Norris. Verstappen's DNF barely registers. The championship math tightens every weekend Norris stays clean and Max doesn't finish.
