Verstappen's Home Heroics, Mercedes' Near Miss And The Best Team Radio | 2022 Dutch Grand Prix

Max is Christian, just for everybody in the team. Many, many congratulations on your honour yesterday and your national award. We're not quite sure what to call you, whether it's Sir Max, Lord Max, or Super Max, but well done for everybody in the team. Thanks, mate. Just call me Max, like always. What the hell? That was close. Is this guy silly or what? OK, we've seen that. Put some birdseed down at Turn 8, then they'll move. Pigeons are back on me at Pixar 7. Yeah, there's a tonne of pigeons around. Roger. Never bring pigeons to a Formula 1 race. Here's Mick Schumacher, crosses the line, gets into Q3. It's a box now, Mick. Yes! Box now, we're going to do Q3 now. Watch the waybridge lights. Good job, man. Thank you. Seems to be held for quite some time, and that is a disaster for Carlos Sainz. Oh, my God. They lift the gun out. Yes, we saw. Possibly Perez and Hamilton, who are blue flags for us. They're racing each other. They're coming out next to you. Hamilton and Perez. So you're well clear. Just be careful of Hamilton. You're well clear of Ricciardo. Lewis Hamilton needs to get past the Red Bull. This time he's clear. Perez doesn't lock up. Hamilton moves up into the top three. Oh, and he's straight out into traffic. Blue flags. OK, Vettel's getting blues ahead. By the side of the track, Yuki Tsunoda stops. Tyres are fitted, tyres are fitted. That's got to be a safety car, surely. Tyres are OK. Start again. Tyres are OK. The tyres are fitted. As far as the team are concerned. Something wrong. Something strange in the rear. Something strange. Diff is broken, I think. Stop, stop. So into the pit lane comes Lewis Hamilton. Great thinking by Mercedes. They're making the best out of a situation they didn't expect. Let's go, guys. Good pit stops, mate. Thank you. So we've got Verstappen at 12 ahead. He's on the hard tyre. Sainz, wow, made the move on Esteban Ocon. I think I was hit by the yellow flag. Check. No, they let him by, but I don't know. Check. They need to let him by. Let Ocon by. He's landed right behind him. That is an unsafe release, Carlos Sainz. It was not unsafe. I just saw on the cameras it's not unsafe. The other car accelerated the braking. Clearly, I'm seeing it on the cameras. If they give me a penalty for that, it's totally fake. Let's stop. Let's put the soft on. I'm losing my tyre. I think we need to put the soft on. Stop, stop, stop. Box, box, box, box, box. Are we racing the GP or not? We're racing all cars. Max Verstappen wins the Dutch Grand Prix. Another majestic drive. Let's call it that today. Well done, Max. Yes. They threw everything at us, but we made the right calls. So, very lovely result there, guys. Well done, mate. That was a mega drive. And take this lap in and enjoy every minute of it. So, yeah. Difficult strategic race, but we've made all the right calls. Well done, mate. Yeah, we did very well. Congrats, guys. Great to see that helmet win a race as well. First time it's done that. Well done. My dad finally won a race. Okay, sorry about that, Lewis. Yeah, it was looking good. But yeah, we'll sit down and review decisions that we made there. Yeah, Lewis, sorry it didn't work out. We did what we discussed in the morning. We took a risk. It didn't work out. But let's discuss between us and the office. To all the mechanics, fantastic job today. That was the best pit stop we've had all year. So, thank you for the continued efforts. Let's keep pushing. We've still got points today. Yeah, thanks, Lewis. Yeah, I appreciate the message. Good weekend. Very orange. Very orange, yeah. Like last year. Put your fog lights on. We gave Dale a point on his last race. So, he'll be happy with that. So, good job, Dale. Not too late to change your mind, Dale. Farewell, Dale. Thank you. I've only shared a very short time with you. But I guess there's many reasons why they call you the brain of this team. So, thank you. Thank you, Dale. And you'll be missed.