The summer break is over. Orange smoke is ready to rise above the dunes of Zandvoort, and Formula 1 is back in business with the Dutch Grand Prix 2025. If you’re an F1TV subscriber (or just someone with a suspiciously flexible work-from-home schedule), here’s your complete guide to when and where to watch every session, every support race, and every second of the papaya-vs-Verstappen title war.
Friday, August 29 – Warming Up the Dunes
- F1 Academy FP1 – 10:10–10:50
- F1 Car Presentation – 11:00–12:00 (your chance to nerd out before engines fire up)
- Formula 1 FP1 – 12:30–13:30
- Formula 1 FP2 – 16:00–17:00
- F1 Academy FP2 – 17:30–18:10
Friday is all about shaking the rust off. Expect long runs, sand blowing across the track, and Verstappen fans turning practice into a rave.
Saturday, August 30 – Qualifying Day
- F1 Academy Qualifying – 10:25–10:55
- Formula 1 FP3 – 11:30–12:30
- Formula 1 Qualifying – 15:00–16:00
- F1 Academy Race 1 – 17:05–17:40
The real business kicks off with qualifying. Zandvoort is a rollercoaster of banking and bravery — overtaking is brutal here, so grid position matters even more than usual. Watch for McLaren and Red Bull to lock horns in a qualifying session that could feel like a title decider.
Sunday, August 31 – Race Day
- F1 Academy Race 2 – 10:40–11:15
- Porsche Supercup Race – 11:55–12:30 (the annual chaos appetizer)
- Drivers’ Parade – 13:00–13:30
- National Anthem – 14:44–14:46 (yes, exact to the minute — F1 runs on precision)
- Dutch Grand Prix – 15:00–17:00 (72 laps / 120 mins)
The Grand Prix itself: 72 laps of one of the tightest, loudest, most claustrophobic circuits on the calendar. Verstappen’s home crowd will turn this into a football atmosphere — flares, flags, and noise that will drown out the engines. For McLaren, Ferrari, Mercedes, or anyone else daring to fight, Zandvoort feels less like a race and more like a siege.
If you’re an F1TV diehard, the weekend is wall-to-wall content: from F1 Academy to Porsche Supercup to the main event. But here’s the caveat: this is Zandvoort. Don’t expect Hollywood levels of overtaking or Monaco-style carnage. Sometimes the Dutch GP is a chess match where strategy decides more than wheel-to-wheel heroics.
Still, if you love atmosphere, pressure, and Verstappen in front of his own fan army, there’s nothing quite like Zandvoort.
