The Dutchman overcame two separate d♍eluges of rain that caused chaos at both the start and finish to take his 11th win from 13 races this season and delight his raucous home crowd. 

• F1 Dutch Grand Prix 2023 - Race ♕Results from Round 13

Fernando Alonso claimed a brilliant second in his upgraded Aston Martin, ahead of Pierre Gasly, who completedꦍ the podium for Alpine. 

Sergio Perez threw away second with an off just before the ꦓred flag stoppage, before a five-second penalty for speeding in the pitlane dropped him from third on the road to fourth. 

Verstappen’s 46th career victory - and third in a row at Zandvoort - further extends ওhis championship lead over his Red Bull teammate to 138 points with nine races remaining and continues his charge towards a third coꦚnsecutive world title. 

Despite starting seventh, Perez led the opening exchanges by being the first driver to pit for intermediates as the rain created a jumbled order.&🀅nbsp;

But Verstappen, who dropped to fourth after pitting♔ for intermediates later, rapidly hunted ℱdown his teammate, before undercutting him to move into the lead when the field switched back onto dry tyres. 

With Verstappen cruising towards a historic win, Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu aquaplaned off during a heavy downpour, resulting in a red flag which set up six laps of racing following a rollin🐽g restart. 

Behind Perez came Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, who fended off th💜e late attack of Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes to take fifth. 

McLaren’s Lando Norris was seventh, ahead of Williams’ Alex Albon and Oscar Piastr✤i♒, while Esteban Ocon completed the points-paying positions in 10th for Alpine. 

Joining Zhou on the sidelines was💃 Ferrari’s Chaꩵrles Leclerc and Logan Sargeant, who crashed heavily in his Williams on Lap 16.