(CNN)Max Verstappen regained the apical spot of the Formula One title standings arsenic helium won the Dutch Grand Prix successful beforehand of raucous location support.
A oversea of fans dressed successful orangish roared loudly arsenic Red Bull's Verstappen took the checkered emblem astatine Zandvoort, portion orangish flares were besides acceptable disconnected from the stands pursuing the decision of the archetypal Dutch GP since 1985.
Verstappen started the contention successful rod and finished much than 20 seconds up of title rival Hamilton, whose Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas completed the podium successful third.
AlphaTauri's Pierre Gasly was fourth, portion Charles Leclerc of Ferrari was fifth.
"Of course, the expectations were precise precocious going into the play and it's ne'er casual to fulfill that," 23-year-old Verstappen said aft the win.
"I'm truthful blessed to triumph present and to instrumentality the pb successful the championship. It's conscionable an astonishing time with the full assemblage here. It's incredible."
In a closely-fought championship, Verstappen moves to the apical of the operator standings with 224.5 points, portion Hamilton is 2nd connected 221.5 points.
While Bottas led concisely astatine 1 constituent arsenic Verstappen and Hamilton some pitted, the contention ever looked acceptable to beryllium a shootout betwixt the 2 title leaders, who soon caught up with the Finn aft their pit stops.
Tailing his rival passim the 72-lap contention arsenic some drivers' teams settled connected a two-stop strategy, Hamilton admitted afterward that his Mercedes conscionable wasn't accelerated capable connected the day.
"I gave it perfectly everything today, level out, I pushed arsenic hard arsenic I could, but they were conscionable excessively speedy for us," the seven-time F1 champion said.
Hamilton did prime up an other constituent for the title standings by signaling the fastest thigh clip of the time implicit Bottas with his last thigh aft pitting for brushed tires.
The triumph was Verstappen's seventh of the play and 5th from the past 7 races arsenic helium chases his archetypal F1 title rubric -- though the triumph helium was awarded astatine past week's Belgian GP was only worthy fractional the accustomed points amid rainswept conditions.
Three consecutive weekends of F1 enactment reason adjacent week astatine the Italian Grand Prix successful Monza, the 14th contention of the season.
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