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F1 Championship Standings After Dutch Grand Prix 2025

Originally posted on F1 on SI | By Ewan Gale | Last updated Aug 31, 2025 2:14 PM ET

Oscar Piastri took a big step towards a maiden Formula 1 drivers' title with victory at the Dutch Grand Prix.

The Australian commanded proceedings from the front to beat Max Verstappen to the checkered flag, though that only tells part of the story.

Main title rival and McLaren teammate Lando Norris had kept Piastri honest before the Briton slowed in the closing stages with a mechanical issue, reporting smoke from his cockpit moments before.

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The non-score means that the gap between the two stretches to 34 points with nine races and three sprints remaining and while Verstappen is mathematically still in with a chance of taking a fifth title, the way the championship has played out so far this term it is unlikely it will be anything other than a two-horse race.

Isack Hadjar's stunning maiden podium for Racing Bulls catapults him into the top 10 in the drivers' standings, while Alex Albon's fifth-place has put him level with Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli, who dropped out of the points at Zandvoort after being hit with two penalties.

Oliver Bearman's career-best sixth took him up to 16th, level with Williams' Carlos Sainz after the Spaniard failed to score.

F1 Drivers' Standings After 2025 Dutch Grand Prix

McLaren's dominance at the top of the constructors' standings continued with Piastri's win, though could have been even more pronounced had Norris not been hit by internal gremlins at Zandvoort.

Ferrari's gap to Mercedes dwindled after Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton crashed out of the race, though Antonelli's part in the former's retirement was part of the reason he failed to help teammate George Russell capitalize.

The gap in the race for second now stands at just 12 points, with Red Bull a further 34 back with Verstappen and Yuki Tsunoda both scoring.

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Albon's result means that Williams consolidates its fifth-place in the standings although points for both Lance Stroll and Fernando Alonso means Aston Martin remain in the hunt, while Hadjar's third has put Racing Bulls right in the reckoning, moving up to seventh.

Alpine's struggles continued with Pierre Gasly nor Franco Colapinto scoring on Sunday.