Netherlands: Qualifying seals Daniel's fate at Zandvoort
A Q1 exit at a circuit where passing chances are at a premium sees Daniel finish where he started in the Dutch Grand Prix.
Race data
Netherlands (Round 15 of 22), 4 September 2022
Zandvoort, 72 laps, 4.259km
Qualified: 17th
Finished: 17th
Laps per position: 9 laps (16th), 26 laps (17th), 25 laps (18th), 10 laps (19th), 2 laps (20th)
Pit stops/tyres: Lap 12 (soft/medium), Lap 28 (medium/hard), Lap 48 (hard/soft), Lap 56 (soft/soft)
Fastest lap: 1:15.577 (16th, lap 52)
Points this event: 0
Points this season: 19 (13th in world championship)
Daniel's download
"That was obviously another challenging weekend. It's hard to overtake here when you end up in a DRS train, so the weekend was more or less dictated by qualifying. It's hard to get yourself out of a low grid position, so on Sunday I paid the price for Saturday.
"My Q1 lap was decent, trending to being good enough to get through, but then (Aston Martin's Lance) Stroll dropped his left rear tyre on the entry of Turn 13 and threw some dirt on the track, and that was where I lost all the time. Seb (Sebastian Vettel) was just behind me on track and he spun there for the same reason. So it felt like a lap that got away, and that dictated my Sunday in a lot of ways.
"The first few laps were not too bad and I think we made some places here and there. But starting that far back, it's hard to make a big impression, you need a big difference to make some moves. In clear air, it felt like I had a little bit of pace to use but it didn't always seem to last long.
"We look ahead to Monza – I'll try to bring back last year’s magic!"
How Daniel's race unfolded
* Started 17th, maintained position on Lap 1.
* Passed Vettel/Aston Martin for 16th on Lap 2.
* Passed by Bottas/Alfa Romeo on Lap 11, dropped to 17th.
* Pitted on Lap 12, re-joined in 20th place on medium tyres.
* Passed Magnussen/Haas and Latifi/Williams to advance to 18th on Lap 15.
* Pitted from 18th on Lap 28, re-joined in 19th on hard tyres.
* Moved up to 18th on Lap 34 after Schumacher/Haas pitted.
* Pitted from 18th on Lap 48, re-joined in 18th on soft tyres.
* Pitted from 17th on Lap 56 under safety car, re-joined 17th on soft tyres after Bottas retired.
* Finished 17th after 72 laps, 37.764secs behind race-winner Verstappen/Red Bull, and five seconds ahead of Latifi/Williams.
Next race
Round 16: Italy (Monza), 11 September
Last race (2021): qualified 2nd, finished 1st
Career: 10 races, 1 win, 2 fastest laps, 89 points, 8 points finishes
Best finish: 1st (2021)
Monza highlights: Took McLaren's first F1 victory since 2012 and his first since Monaco 2018 when he won in Italy last year, leading for 48 of the 53 laps. Set the fastest lap of the race on the final lap, to go with the fastest lap he set in 2017 when finishing fourth for Red Bull Racing. The 89 points scored at Monza are more than any other single circuit across his 224-race F1 career. Has finished inside the top six on five of his past six visits to Monza. One of only five races to feature on the calendar across every year of his career since 2011: Abu Dhabi, Belgium, Great Britain and Hungary are the others.
