Mercedes attempted to undercut Verstappen 🗹by switching Hamilton onto a two-stop strate🐽gy but Red Bull covered the move, enabling Verstappen to remain ahead of his main rival.

With Hamilton fꦓading in the closing stages, Mercedes opted to make a precautionary third stop, enabling Verstappen to s♏camper clear and secure a comfortable seventh win of the season.

The result meant Verstappen enjoyed a six-point swing overജ Hamilton as the Dutchman reclaimed the championship lead by three points.

“Max did a great job, congratulations t⛎o him,” Hamil൩ton said.

“I gave it absolutely everything today, flat out, I pushed as hard as 🏅I could, but they were just too quick for us.

“I’ve had an amazing time hܫe𝓀re in Holland, thanks to the crowd, thank you so much for having us.”

Hamilton was left frustrಞated to have lost crucial time in traffic after his se♔cond stop and again towards the end of the race.

“I’🐻m going to call him [Verstappen] Noah [Moses] from now on,” Hamilton joked. “Every time he got traffic they just moved out of the way and it was very hard to navigate through all the traffic.

“But they just had that upper e🧸dge and it’s very hard to follow here.”

There was some solace for Hamilton in his defeat to Verstappen, with the seven-time world champion taking the bonus point for setting the fastest lap of the race ꦿ🐼on the final tour.

“The last lap was one of the best parts of the race for me because this tra🐼ck is just incredible on a single lap, low🃏 fuel,” Hamilton added.

“This is now one of my favourite tracks so I’m looking fo❀rward to coming back here next year.”