In the Qualifying Stage of F1 Netherlands, Verstappen attacked at home for the first time as a world champion, and the support of home fans was even more crazy, but there were also really crazy fans who caused confusion, and Verstappen could not bear to criticize.
In qualifying, two Red Bull cars did not perform well in free practice on Friday, but returned to the level on Saturday, Verstappen easily passed the level with only one lap in Q1 and Q2, creating the fastest lap of 1 minute and 10.342 seconds in Q3 to win pole position; Ferrari's Leclerc was expected to grab pole position, but he made mistakes in the second sector, and finally lost to Verstappen in second place, and another Ferrari driver Sainz was third.
It is worth mentioning that Red Bull II driver Perez made a mistake in the third sector when he ran the final lap of Q3, causing the race to show a yellow flag, which meant that the two Mercedes-Benz drivers who followed him, Hamilton and Russell, and Little Red Bull's Kakuda Hiroshi were forced to stop and could not improve the time. Mercedes-Benz's performance in this station was clearly close to the top two of Red Bull and Ferrari, but ultimately lost the opportunity to improve the qualifying results.
There were also many dangers during qualifying, with most of the spectators in the Netherlands being the Orange Legion supporting Verstappen, and many people brought smoke bombs banned from the track to create an atmosphere. However, during Q2, some fans threw smoke bombs into the track, making the race need to show the red flag to suspend the race for cleanup.
After Verstappen won the pole position, he couldn't help but criticize these crazy fans, saying: "This is really crazy, it is fine to hold the smoke bomb in your hand, but there are limits." But it's stupid to drop smoke bombs off the track." The race immediately drove the fan away, and the local police then arrested the person involved, and Verstappen continued: "Please don't do it, it's not good for everyone – you will be kicked away, you won't see the race, and we will suspend the race because it is too dangerous." People shouldn't do that."
In addition to the smoke bombs, there are also many pigeons on the track that are quite stubborn and cannot be driven away, and they are still fearless in the face of the F1 car with a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour, foraging on the track, which makes many drivers very distressed, and finally a car accidentally rolled over the pigeons in the F2 race.