Five Things to Know About the 2025 Dutch GP

Atlassian Williams Racing will return to action at the 2025 Dutch Grand Prix this weekend following the sport's summer break.

The Dutch coast is where the season resumes, with a trip to the Circuit Zandvoort on the dunes of the North Sea.

It's been a little while since we were last on track so we've prepared five things for you to get back in the swing of things ahead of the race. Read on below.

It feels as though we're entering the season's second half, but we're already well past 2025's 50% mark.

With the sport tackling 24 rounds and 14 already done, the Dutch GP represents the beginning of the end, with 10 Grands Prix remaining.

For Williams, that means 10 races to solidify our position in the top half of the World Constructors' Championship standings as we enjoy our best campaign since 2017.

We currently sit in P5 thanks to Alex and Carlos' 70 points (that's more than our past three seasons combined!), but our midfield rivals are hot on our heels.

There are 18 points between us and our nearest challenger, and three teams are within a single race win of usurping our P5 spot. We'll be fighting all the way to Abu Dhabi, and that battle resumes on Sunday.

The 2025 Dutch GP could see different strategies at play thanks to a slight tweak to the pit lane speed limit.

It's a narrow pit lane for the 20 drivers to navigate and a reduced limit of 60 km/h is what Zandvoort has had since its return to the calendar in 2021.

That will increase to 80 km/h in 2025 to reduce the time lost for taking a pit stop in an effort to open up alternative tyre strategies.

We usually see one-stop drives in the dry at this tough-to-pass track, but that could switch to a two-stopper if opportunities open up.

We've raced around the Netherlands 12 times since our first full-time season in 1978. Alan Jones took our sole victory one year later, with him and Keke Rosberg taking our Dutch GP podium finishes.

Curiously, we've never had a pole position, but we've had Williams machinery occupying a spot or two of the front two rows five times in those dozen Grands Prix.

Alan was always fast around the Dutch dunes, with a P2 qualification in 1979 and a brace of P4 starts in '81 and '82.

Keke qualified in P2 in 1985, and we've had Clay Regazzoni (1979) and Carlos Reutemann (1980) be the lead cars on the second row, too.

More recently, Albono began the Dutch GP on the second row in the 2023 event after he stormed to P4 on a memorable Saturday afternoon.

F1 Academy's long breaks between races in the 2025 calendar mean we haven't seen Lia racing in single-seater machinery since Canada.

She'll be back in her ART cockpit this weekend, though, with the championship taking on its sole European race of the year.

Lia matched her best ever F1 Academy result in Montreal, and will look to use her familiarity with the circuit in both races this weekend after her Dutch trip in 2024.

Three rounds remain of the 2025 F1 Academy season, and Lia will take to Singapore in October and Las Vegas in November once she tackles the Netherlands on Sunday.

All the cars will look slightly different this race weekend as F1's tyre supplier Pirelli celebrates a special moment in its history with the sport.

The Dutch race represents the 500th Grand Prix for Pirelli, and the Italian tyre manufacturer will be utilising a "500 GP" logo to mark the occasion.

Further events will follow at Pirelli's home race next weekend at Monza to continue the celebrations over this racing doubleheader.

The compounds themselves will also differ from 2024, as we'll have the C2, C3, and C4 options available for the 2025 race to go one stop softer than last year.