Carlos Sainz's Dutch Grand Prix record is the very definition of solid. No podium, no headline drive, but a reliable habit of coming away with points from a circuit that punishes anyone who overreaches.
Six starts, a best finish of fifth and a score on four of those visits. Here is the measured story of Sainz at Zandvoort.
Sainz is not lucky when it comes to Zandvoort
The high points are two fifth places, in 2023 and 2024, both in Ferrari red. Neither was a race that will be replayed for years, but both were clean, sensible afternoons that banked good points. That has been the theme: Sainz rarely wins the weekend at Zandvoort, and he rarely wastes it either.
There is no pole and no podium on his Dutch sheet, which for a race-winner of his quality is a slight surprise. The circuit has simply never quite clicked into a top-three day for him.
The exception to the steadiness came in 2022. Sainz qualified third, right in podium contention, then a scrappy race that included a slow pit stop dropped him to eighth. It is the weekend on this list where the grid slot promised more than the flag delivered.
2026: a second blank in a row
The Williams was nowhere at Zandvoort in 2026. Sainz qualified seventeenth and finished sixteenth, never in contention for a point and lapped by the leaders.
It is the first time in his career he has gone two straight Dutch Grands Prix without scoring, and it turns what used to be one of his most reliable weekends into a fixture he will want to forget.
Carlos Sainz's Dutch GP record year by year
The table was a portrait of dependability for four years. Four scores from six starts now, and both blank weekends have come since the move to Williams.
| Year | Team | Grid | Finish | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Ferrari | 6th | 7th | 6 |
| 2022 | Ferrari | 3rd | 8th | 4 |
| 2023 | Ferrari | 6th | 5th | 10 |
| 2024 | Ferrari | 10th | 5th | 10 |
| 2025 | Williams | 9th | 13th | 0 |
| 2026 | Williams | 17th | 16th | 0 |
A new chapter at Williams
2025 marked a change of scenery, his first Zandvoort start away from Ferrari, and it ended just outside the points in 13th. 2026 was worse still: seventeenth on the grid, sixteenth at the flag and a second blank weekend in a row. The task now is to drag a midfield car back into the top ten here.
Carlos Sainz's Dutch Grand Prix record is built on consistency rather than fireworks. No podium yet, and the 2022 near miss still nags. Four points finishes from six starts is the mark of a driver who knows how to get a car to the flag, but the last two visits have shown how little that is worth in the wrong machinery.
