Don't miss the return of Formula 1 at Max Verstappen’s home race weekend as the concluding part of the season begins with the first of 10 races in 14 weeks; Zandvoort race live at 2pm – watch live on Sky Sports F1
Saturday 26 August 2023 18:56, UK
F1's summer break is over: the 10-race run-in to the end of the season starts in the Netherlands and historic Zandvoort this weekend.
After the factory shutdowns and holidays, the season will resume with the chasing pack aiming to change a narrative which has seen Red Bull win every race so far - and runaway title leader Max Verstappen the last eight.
Verstappen's hunt for a record-equalling nine on the spin takes him back to home soil and a race in front of his 'Orange Army', who have made the venue by the dunes of the North Sea coast one of the sport's noisiest and atmospheric since Zandvoort returned to F1 for the first time in three decades in 2021.
The penultimate European round of the season sees familiar start times for UK audiences live on Sky Sports F1:
While Verstappen, also eyeing a hat-trick of home wins, will inevitably start as favourite, the pre-summer break battle behind the Dutchman continued to be unpredictable.
Five different drivers from five different teams finished second to Verstappen in the space of six races, bunching up the standings in the battle for the other leading positions in the Drivers' and Constructors' Championships.
Old rivals Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton are separated by just a point in third and fourth places respectively, while Aston Martin are coming under pressure from Ferrari for their position behind Red Bull and Mercedes in the constructors'.
SUNDAY AUGUST 27
8.55am: F2 Feature Race
12.30pm: Grand Prix Sunday: Dutch GP build-up
2pm: THE DUTCH GRAND PRIX
4pm: Chequered Flag: Dutch GP reaction
5.30pm: Dutch GP highlights
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