Points on the Dutch sand dunes

The 2025 season resumed after the summer break with the Dutch Grand Prix, where Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ Team driver, Lance Stroll, finished P7.

Returning to the track

Lance and the team began the first Free Practice after the summer break by running the Medium tyre.

A Red Flag put a pause to running with 45 minutes to go. As the track went green again, Lance went back out on the Medium tyres.

At the halfway point in the session, Lance was in P5. He swapped onto the Soft compound tyre and improved his time to P3.

After completing 25 laps, Lance concluded the session in P3.

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FP2 cut short

With rain threatening to disrupt the second Free Practice session, Lance went straight out onto the track on the Medium compound tyre.

Small drops of rain began to fall, but it wasn’t too significant, and Lance sat P4 on the timesheets.

After going for another fast lap, Lance crashed at Turn 3, forcing him to retire from the session.

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Final preparations

After the team were able to repair Lance’s AMR25 overnight, he was able to take part in the final practice session of the weekend.

Earlier rain meant the track was damp and the session was declared wet.

Lance emerged onto the track on the Intermediate tyre to do an install lap, before returning to the pits.

As the track began to dry out, Lance returned onto the track on the Soft compound trye after missing out on running during Friday’s FP2. He went to the top of the timesheets with a time of 1:11.854.

Lance concluded FP3 in P8.

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An early exit in Qualifying

Lance’s Qualifying came to an early end after he made contact with the barrier on his first flying lap.

As he was unable to set a lap time, Lance was classified in P20.

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Points secured

Lance started the Dutch Grand Prix from P19 on the Medium compound tyre. He made a clean start and was battling for P18 through the lap before securing it on Lap 2.

He was the first driver to pit when he came in on Lap 9 to swap to the Hard compound tyre.

After returning to the track in P20, he made his way up into P16 by Lap 20. The Safety Car was called on Lap 23 and as he had already made his first stop, Lance circulated up into P12.

Racing resumed on Lap 27 and in the following two laps Lance made up positions to P9. He continued running in this position until he made his second pit stop on Lap 53 for another set of Hard compound tyres returning to the track in P15.

The safety car was called just after Lance pitted, and as a result he moved up to P12 as others ahead made their stops.

As the Safety Car ended on Lap 58, Lance moved up to P11 on the restart. He made up further overtakes in the laps after and was in P8 as a third Safety Car was called.

Racing resumed on Lap 69, and he remained in P8 where he crossed the line. A time penalty was applied to Kimi Antonelli ahead which moved Lance up to P7 in the final classification, adding a further six points to his tally.  

Lance’s season will continue in Monza for the Italian Grand Prix, 5-7 September.

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Lance Stroll, Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ Team, said:

"It was a very eventful race today with lots of opportunities and we're happy we were able to finish with both cars in the points. We managed to make up a lot of positions early on in the race with the right strategy calls and an early pit stop after the first stint. It felt great to bounce back in the race after a frustrating weekend starting from P19 and after the team worked so hard to rebuild the car on Friday and Saturday. We go again next week in Monza, I'm looking forward to go racing there again."