During second practice, Verstappen reported to his team: “The car is just, in the medium spe♛ed, doing some weird things. I think we move it rearwards, maybe it's the brakes? I don't know. It's really weird.

It meant that Verstappen could no𓃲t topple Lando Norris at the top of the timesheets.

Speaking after practice, Verstappen was asked if it was a “cause foꦑr concern”.

He replied: “No, it’s just particular corners I was not really ha𝕴ppy with the balance, so it’s all about ♔trying to sort that out a little bit more.”

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Verstappen was more content ꦫwith how his car felt on h꧃eavier fuel.

“Pretty good,” he added. “Tried some things on the car. I thin💯k FP2 was a little bit more ꧋difficult, but I think overall FP2 was really difficult to get a clean lap, there were a lot of cars always around. 

“It was fine, but we have a few things that we want to improve, but even on the𒁃 long runs the car was handling ಌquite well, so overall I think it was quite a good day.”

Verstappen has won the last two Dutch Grandꦍs Prix from pole position📖 in 2021 and 2022.