2022 Dutch Grand Prix interactive data: lap charts, times and tyres

The FIA Formula 1 race director has three choices of how to neutralise a race: red flag, Safety Car, or Virtual Safety Car. On lap 43 of the Dutch Grand Prix, a VSC was the worst of those options for Mercedes, as it allowed the driver they were chasing to make a pit stop without closing the field up afterwards.

At first, it seemed that VSC had decided the destiny of the Dutch Grand Prix. When Yuki Tsunoda’s AlphaTauri came to a permanent stop by the side of the track, the VSC was used to enable the car’s safe recovery, and thereby handed race leader Max Verstappen the opportunity to pit his Red Bull team had been waiting for. Lewis Hamilton and George Russell were closing in but the VSC meant Verstappen could now make his second and final pit stop without falling behind them.

The only good news for Mercedes was they had enough of a gap over Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari to be able to bring both their drivers in as well. The trio therefore resumed the race with Verstappen still leading, now on hard tyres, and the pursuing Mercedes pair on mediums.

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff later said their simulations indicated that without the VSC, Verstappen would have come out of the pits on hard tyres and only caught Hamilton with six laps to go. That drama never unfolded, but another interruption to the race seemed to hand Mercedes a chance to claim that victory.

Race control were able to move to Tsunoda’s car out of the way using the lesser disruption of a VSC because he had stopped close to a gap in a barrier that his car could be pushed into. However when Valtteri Bottas came to a stop at the beginning of his 54th lap there was no such nearby opening. He parked his Alfa Romeo on the inside line approaching Tarzan. That made the recovery process more complicated, which meant a full Safety Car was needed.

The race would therefore resume with the cars in a tight queue, the former gaps between them eradicated, unlike after a VSC. Most teams had been reluctant to use the hard tyre before the race began, and Red Bull were surprised Mercedes were able to make it work as well as they did, so it is no surprise the leaders didn’t want to leave Verstappen out at the front of the field on a set of hard tyres for a rolling restart with 16 or so laps remaining.

Red Bull therefore pitted Verstappen for a used set of soft tyres, accepting that doing so would drop him behind the two Mercedes drivers. To begin with, Mercedes left their drivers out. However Russell became concerned about warming up his medium tyres and took the opportunity to pit for softs when the field followed the Safety Car through the pits the next time around.

The race therefore restarted with Hamilton leading on mediums followed by Verstappen, Russell and Leclerc on softs. But not for long. Verstappen was in the lead by turn one, and an unimpressed Hamilton sank to fourth place within a handful of laps.

Should Mercedes have put soft tyres on Hamilton’s car? Did Mercedes throw away a chance of victory by failing to do so? These are two subtly different questions.

Mercedes could have achieved a better finishing position for Hamilton by fitting soft tyres to his car as well. In all likelihood he would have restarted second behind Verstappen and finished there. But there’s no reason to assume it would have increased his chances of winning the race.

The best chance of doing that surely rested on Mercedes maintaining track position for both drivers by keeping them on mediums and hoping that Russell delayed Verstappen sufficiently for Hamilton to bring his five-lap-old mediums back up to temperature and make his escape. But even that seems a faint possibility in the face of the straight-line speed advantage Red Bull enjoyed over Mercedes.

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2022 Dutch Grand Prix lap chart

The positions of each driver on every lap. Click name to highlight, right-click to reset. Toggle drivers using controls below:

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2022 Dutch Grand Prix race chart

The gaps between each driver on every lap compared to the leader’s average lap time. Very large gaps omitted. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan and right-click to reset. Toggle drivers using controls below:

Position change

Driver	Start position	Lap one position change	Race position change
Lewis Hamilton	4	0	0
George Russell	6	-1	4
Max Verstappen	1	0	0
Sergio Perez	5	0	-1
Charles Leclerc	2	0	-1
Carlos Sainz Jnr	3	0	-2
Lando Norris	7	1	-1
Daniel Ricciardo	17	0	0
Esteban Ocon	12	3	3
Fernando Alonso	13	0	6
Pierre Gasly	11	-1	0
Yuki Tsunoda	9	-2
Lance Stroll	10	2	0
Sebastian Vettel	19	1	6
Alexander Albon	15	-1	3
Nicholas Latifi	20	0	2
Valtteri Bottas	16	-3
Zhou Guanyu	14	0	-2
Mick Schumacher	8	-2	-6
Kevin Magnussen	18	3	3

2022 Dutch Grand Prix lap times

All the lap times by the drivers (in seconds, very slow laps excluded). Scroll to zoom, drag to pan and toggle drivers using the control below:

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2022 Dutch Grand Prix fastest laps

Each driver’s fastest lap:

Rank	Driver	Car	Fastest lap	Gap	On lap
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1’13.652		62
2	George Russell	Mercedes	1’13.671	0.019	72
3	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1’13.854	0.202	54
4	Fernando Alonso	Alpine-Renault	1’14.144	0.492	51
5	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	1’14.404	0.752	63
6	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1’14.413	0.761	62
7	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Ferrari	1’14.643	0.991	63
8	Lando Norris	McLaren-Mercedes	1’14.706	1.054	63
9	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin-Mercedes	1’14.862	1.210	50
10	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin-Mercedes	1’15.043	1.391	65
11	Esteban Ocon	Alpine-Renault	1’15.084	1.432	64
12	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri-Red Bull	1’15.165	1.513	65
13	Mick Schumacher	Haas-Ferrari	1’15.233	1.581	51
14	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	1’15.369	1.717	53
15	Alexander Albon	Williams-Mercedes	1’15.534	1.882	65
16	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren-Mercedes	1’15.577	1.925	52
17	Zhou Guanyu	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	1’15.940	2.288	63
18	Nicholas Latifi	Williams-Mercedes	1’16.066	2.414	62
19	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	1’16.844	3.192	51
20	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri-Red Bull	1’17.138	3.486	16

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2022 Dutch Grand Prix tyre strategies

The tyre strategies for each driver:

	Stint 1	Stint 2	Stint 3	Stint 4	Stint 5
Max Verstappen	C3 (18)	C2 (30)	C1 (8)	C3 (16)
George Russell	C2 (31)	C1 (17)	C2 (9)	C3 (15)
Charles Leclerc	C3 (17)	C2 (28)	C1 (11)	C3 (16)
Lewis Hamilton	C2 (29)	C1 (19)	C2 (24)
Carlos Sainz Jnr	C3 (14)	C2 (29)	C1 (14)	C2 (15)
Sergio Perez	C3 (14)	C2 (26)	C1 (16)	C2 (16)
Fernando Alonso	C3 (12)	C1 (35)	C3 (25)
Lando Norris	C2 (17)	C1 (30)	C3 (10)	C3 (15)
Esteban Ocon	C3 (18)	C1 (38)	C3 (16)
Lance Stroll	C3 (16)	C2 (22)	C1 (18)	C3 (16)
Pierre Gasly	C3 (11)	C2 (21)	C1 (24)	C3 (16)
Alexander Albon	C2 (21)	C2 (21)	C1 (13)	C3 (17)
Sebastian Vettel	C3 (9)	C2 (26)	C1 (13)	C3 (24)
Mick Schumacher	C2 (13)	C2 (20)	C1 (14)	C3 (25)
Kevin Magnussen	C2 (14)	C2 (20)	C1 (13)	C3 (25)
Zhou Guanyu	C3 (12)	C3 (25)	C2 (18)	C3 (17)
Daniel Ricciardo	C3 (11)	C2 (16)	C1 (20)	C3 (8)	C3 (17)
Nicholas Latifi	C3 (13)	C2 (13)	C1 (28)	C3 (17)
Valtteri Bottas	C3 (16)	C3 (18)	C2 (19)
Yuki Tsunoda	C3 (13)	C2 (29)

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2022 Dutch Grand Prix pit stop times

How long each driver’s pit stops took:

	Driver	Team	Pit stop time	Gap	On lap
1	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	18.572		56
2	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	18.700	0.128	32
3	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	18.709	0.137	48
4	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	18.738	0.166	40
5	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	18.774	0.202	13
6	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	18.789	0.217	11
7	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	18.835	0.263	14
8	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	19.046	0.474	29
9	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	19.080	0.508	17
10	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	19.084	0.512	45
11	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	19.141	0.569	56
12	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	19.156	0.584	35
13	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	19.164	0.592	48
14	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	19.250	0.678	56
15	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	19.293	0.721	42
16	Lando Norris	McLaren	19.303	0.731	17
17	Alexander Albon	Williams	19.325	0.753	21
18	George Russell	Mercedes	19.359	0.787	31
19	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	19.455	0.883	18
20	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Ferrari	19.493	0.921	43
21	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	19.546	0.974	11
22	Zhou Guanyu	Alfa Romeo	19.548	0.976	12
23	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	19.567	0.995	27
24	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	19.576	1.004	56
25	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	19.578	1.006	12
26	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	19.610	1.038	48
27	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	19.634	1.062	18
28	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	19.655	1.083	56
29	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	19.718	1.146	47
30	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo	19.741	1.169	16
31	Alexander Albon	Williams	19.911	1.339	42
32	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	20.051	1.479	54
33	Zhou Guanyu	Alfa Romeo	20.188	1.616	55
34	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	20.205	1.633	16
35	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	20.214	1.642	38
36	Mick Schumacher	Haas	20.283	1.711	47
37	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	20.284	1.712	13
38	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	20.295	1.723	55
39	Alexander Albon	Williams	20.508	1.936	55
40	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	20.733	2.161	26
41	George Russell	Mercedes	20.742	2.170	48
42	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	20.785	2.213	14
43	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo	21.049	2.477	34
44	Lando Norris	McLaren	21.117	2.545	47
45	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Ferrari	21.164	2.592	57
46	Lando Norris	McLaren	21.264	2.692	57
47	George Russell	Mercedes	21.363	2.791	57
48	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	21.501	2.929	47
49	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	21.602	3.030	56
50	Mick Schumacher	Haas	21.814	3.242	33
51	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	22.391	3.819	9
52	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	23.663	5.091	47
53	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	23.710	5.138	34
54	Zhou Guanyu	Alfa Romeo	25.433	6.861	37
55	Mick Schumacher	Haas	26.813	8.241	13
56	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Ferrari	29.705	11.133	14
57	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	52.684	34.112	43

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