After a long-awaited summer break, F1 travels to the Netherlands for the home grand prix of the world champion Max Verstappen. He won last year’s race starting from pole – unless something extraordinary happens, we will see the same result this weekend. Despite having the same winner in most races, 2023 F1 championship is great, with many teams fighting for the rest of the podium positions. As McLaren boss Zak Brown put it, “if they had two Sergios in the car, with all due respect, this championship would kind of be wide open”. Let’s see if any team can get closer to the top and give us a different championship order next season.

Apart from the obvious prediction for the top spot, I will be waiting to see if Perez can keep his recent form and come home 2nd and whether Mercedes, McLaren or Ferrari have brought any significant upgrades that can help them get a little bit closer to the 2nd place in the constructors championship.

Tsunoda was hit with three-place grid drop for impeding Hamilton.

Driver	Qualifying Prediction	Actual Qualifying Result	Race Prediction	Actual Race Result
Verstappen	1	1	1	1
Alonso	7	5	4	2
Gasly	14	12	12	3
Perez	2	7	5	4
Sainz	8	6	6	5
Hamilton	3	13	9	6
Norris	5	2	2	7
Albon	15	4	10	8
Piastri	10	8	7	9
Ocon	11	17	14	10
Stroll	13	11	11	11
Hulkenberg	12	15	18	12
Lawson	19	20	20	13
Bottas	9	19	15	14
Tsunoda	18	14	17	15
Magnussen	17	18	19	16
Russell	6	3	3	17
Zhou	16	16	13	R
Leclerc	4	9	8	R
Sargeant	20	10	16	R