The wind was blowing in off the North Sea in the Netherlands. The Spaniards, Sainz and Alonso had retreated to the pit lane to start the race. On the formation lap, Norris seemed to be napping as Russell led the cars away. Perez was wheeled away by his mechanics at the back.
Everyone was awake at the start and Russell led them all away pretty much in order apart from Antonelli who moved forwards. It took a couple of laps for Perez to come out from the pit lane and a few more before Hulkenberg took his car back there to retire.
18 laps later another car retired, that of Sainz and we saw our first on-track overtake, LeClerc on Norris for second place. It was a good move but not enough to sustain the entertainment for a whole race.
It did start to rain on the last lap but there were no more overtakes. I would be interested to see how Channel 4 make a highlights package out of this race. It was a thoroughly dreary race only made worse by techno music.
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