Sergio Perez spent four years with the best points record of anyone active on the grid at the Dutch Grand Prix. He went to the race four times with Red Bull and scored on every visit, accumulating 34 points. His return in 2026, with Cadillac, was the first time Zandvoort sent him home with nothing.However, that wasn't enough for him to finish on the podium in the race. While at Zandvoort, he made some good points and the elusive podium finish.
Four for four, until it wasn't
What stood out for four years was that he scored points in every single edition of the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort. Across those four events he averaged eight and a half points a time, which is rare at a circuit where the leaders practically disappear.His best score came in the year 2023 when he got the fourth place and scored twelve points being seventh on the grid.
Context matters here. All four of Perez's Dutch Grands Prix came as Max Verstappen's team mate, during the years Verstappen won this race three times in a row in front of an orange grandstand. Being the other Red Bull at Zandvoort was one of the least rewarding jobs in the sport.
Be that as it may, across those four Red Bull years Perez never once failed to score. In a period when consistency was the whole of his job description, Zandvoort is one of the venues where he delivered it.
2026: the streak ends in a Cadillac
Perez came back to Zandvoort in 2026 after a season out, this time with Cadillac, and the context could hardly have been more different. He qualified twenty second, last on the grid, and finished fifteenth.
No points, and the end of the neatest thing on his Dutch record. Four for four became four from five. It says nothing about the driving: the four scoring years came in the fastest car on the grid, and this one came in a first-season entry that qualified last.
Sergio Pérez's Dutch GP record year by year
Every Dutch Grand Prix start, with the grid slot it came from and what it was worth.
| Season | Grid | Finish | Points | Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | n/a | P8 | 4 | Red Bull |
| 2022 | 5 | P5 | 10 | Red Bull |
| 2023 | 7 | P4 | 12 | Red Bull |
| 2024 | 5 | P6 | 8 | Red Bull |
| 2026 | 22 | P15 | 0 | Cadillac |
The podium that never came
No pole, no win, no fastest lap and no podium, despite four starts in the fastest car on the grid. Fourth in 2023 remains the high-water mark, and it is a genuine gap in an otherwise strong record.
Perez's Dutch Grand Prix record is still quietly one of the better ones in this series. Thirty four points from five visits, four of them scoring, and one blank afternoon at the end in a car that could not have done anything else. It is just missing the result that would have made anyone remember it.
