Is Norris now Antonelli's biggest title threat?

Back-to-back wins for Lando Norris and McLaren has raised the spectre of the world champions yet having a significant say in this year's Drivers' Championship fight; watch the Italian Grand Prix at Monza live on Sky Sports F1 on September 4-6

While he won neither of the race formats across the Zandvoort Sprint weekend, Kimi Antonelli increased his overall world championship lead at the Dutch Grand Prix as Formula 1 returned from its summer break.

The Mercedes driver now leads both team-mate George Russell and Ferrari rival Lewis Hamilton by 59 points, the second-largest advantage Antonelli has enjoyed at the top of the Drivers' Championship so far this season.

But Antonelli's buffer over the driver who now occupies fourth place in the standings reduced by a further eight points overall after a second successive Grand Prix win for reigning champion Lando Norris, who is now 83 points off the pace.

Norris became just the second driver after Antonelli to claim consecutive wins this season, with the McLaren driver's Zandvoort triumph coming after he overtook the championship leader on track. Antonelli had initially reclaimed the lead from Norris at the restart following the red flag triggered by Max Verstappen's heavy lap-one crash.

Yet does the result mean that Norris' hopes of retaining his world title, which seemed all-but over just a few races ago before McLaren brought a notable car upgrade to Budapest, are firmly back on?

Four weeks on from a supreme showing at the Hungarian Grand Prix, when he claimed the first Grand Prix pole and win of his world title defence, Norris was impressive again throughout the Zandvoort weekend on the sport's return to action.

But he was initially left frustrated on Saturday after finishing third in the Sprint.

Norris' concern centred on McLaren's long-run pace after Charles Leclerc overtook him with six laps remaining in the shorter-form race. The Ferrari driver was running on soft tyres that even he had expected to be past their best by that stage, making his ability to pull clear of Norris' medium-shod McLaren all the more concerning.

Norris later confirmed McLaren's single-lap pace was certainly strong by taking pole position for the main Grand Prix, but his 'celebrations' in parc ferme were noticeably muted.

Saturday's frustration made the nature of his win on Sunday all the sweeter.

Asked how highly he rated his 13th career triumph, Norris said: "Pretty high just from a point of just very well fought in many ways.

"More than that is, you know, the turnaround from yesterday to today. I was pretty disappointed yesterday. It kind of took a little bit of the fire out of me, seeing how much we struggled in the Sprint.

"I know it's just a Sprint, but, you know, every point matters and we just really didn't have the pace. I didn't have that something that gave me life inside the car.