ZANDVOORT, Netherlands, Aug 22 (Reuters) – George Russell won the Dutch Grand Prix sprint race from pole position on Saturday while Mercedes teammate Kimi Antonelli extended his Formula One championship lead over Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton to 53 points.
Russell took the chequered flag under changeable skies at Zandvoort 1.360 seconds ahead of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc with McLaren’s reigning champion Lando Norris in third place and Antonelli fourth.
Hamilton, Antonelli’s closest title rival after 11 grands prix and five sprint races, finished seventh behind McLaren’s Oscar Piastri and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in fifth and sixth. Alpine’s Pierre Gasly took the final point in eighth.
Antonelli has 224 points to Hamilton’s 171 and Russell’s 168, with the big points still to come in Sunday’s grand prix, the seaside circuit’s last appearance on the F1 calendar for the foreseeable future.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Ed Osmond)
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