Lando Norris stayed on top of the times in second Dutch Grand Prix practice, a session that was filled with incident and red-flagged twice.

The threat of rain didn’t materialise, and Norris went quickest again, but this time less than a tenth of a second faster than Fernando Alonso in the Aston Martin, the two-time champion showing surprising pace.

Alonso outpaced Norris’ team-mate Oscar Piastri by 0.002sec, the Australian finishing third ahead of George Russell and Max Verstappen.

The Red Bull driver fared better than in FP1, but was still over half a second off Norris’s pace.

Lewis Hamilton also improved compared to the morning, but the Briton suffered another spin following his first one in FP1.

This time, it was at Turn 10 after putting his rear left tyre on the grass, although he managed to avoid hitting anything.

Hamilton finished two places ahead of Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc, with Yuki Tsunoda splitting the Scuderia drivers.

The session was red-flagged for the first time 11 minutes in when Lance Stroll had a big crash at Turn 3, the Aston Martin driver hitting the barriers hard as his car understeered from apparently taking the corner too fast.

The Aston was destroyed, but Stroll was lucky to walk away unscathed.

Stroll’s accident was very similar to the one in which Daniel Ricciardo injured his hand during practice for the 2023 Dutch GP.

The red flag lasted about 10 minutes while marshals cleared the debris from Stroll’s car.

It took three minutes before the action was interrupted again after Isack Hadjar stopped on track with a problem in his car.

This time, the issue was resolved with a virtual safety car as the marshals managed to push the Racing Bulls off the track.

Before his problem, Hadjar hadn’t managed to complete a single lap, which left him at the bottom of the times.

Alexander Albon caused the next red flag with 21 minutes to go when he went straight off at Turn 1, his Williams making light contact with the barriers.

Although the contact only damaged the front wing, the car got stuck in the gravel and needed to be recovered.

As the car returned to the pits, another incident occurred when Piastri and Russell nearly made contact in the pitlane as the McLaren driver turned right to drive into his garage, then suddenly turned left again as the Mercedes was running right behind.

Russell had to slam his brakes to avoid hitting the McLaren, but the stewards announced the incident would be investigated after the session.

2025 Dutch GP FP2 results