Red Bull were beaten by McLaren at the Dutch Grand Prix as Max Verstappen was beaten by Lando Norris.
At his home race, Verstappen had passed the McLaren of Norris off the line but was overtaken by the British driver later in the race then was unable to keep up as Norris won by a margin of over 22 seconds.
Verstappen was duly forced to settle for second pace while his team-mate Sergio Perez crossed the line in 6th position.
The result meant that Verstappen failed to win at Zandvoort for the first time since the Dutch Grand Prix returned to the F1 calendar in 2021, while Red Bull have now failed to win in each of the last five Formula One races.
Red Bull remain with the advantage in both championships but saw their lead in both cut into as a result. Verstappen leads the Driver’s Championship with 295 points, with a win and fastest lap for Norris seeing the McLaren cut his lead to 70 points. Team-mate Perez, meanwhile, sits seventh, with the Mexican driver now 15 points behind Lewis Hamilton and 17 ahead of George Russell.
As for the Constructor’s Championship, the Milton Keynes-based Red Bull Racing team remain in the lead of the field. However, with McLaren scoring more than Red Bull, it meant that the team’s lead over McLaren has been cut to 30 points.
Verstappen was making his 200th Formula One start and in his pursuit of getting back to winning ways, he had initially made a quick start when he beat Norris off the line and took the lead into turn one. Team-mate Perez, meanwhile, lost a place off the line to the faster starting Ferrari of Charles Leclerc.
Initially, Verstappen held the lead and got out of DRS, but as the first stint of the tyres wore on, Verstappen was struggling to shake off the McLaren.
Norris duly closed up and at the start of lap 18, the McLaren made a move, flying past Verstappen into turn one to take lead of the race.
Verstappen attempted to make an undercut to get back past Norris, but the McLaren kept track position when Norris pitted and he duly got away, escalated to a huge lead over the field to win comfortably.
As for Perez, he rejoined ninth after his stop behind a few early-stopping midfielders but was able to get back into sixth.
Perez would lose a position when he was passed by the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz, but gained one when George Russell made a second pit-stop and was unable to catch up to try to re-pass the Mexican later in the race, allowing Perez to pick up 6th – his highest finish since taking fourth in Miami back in May.
Red Bull will seek to try again to get a win when Formula One heads to Italy for the next round at Monza.
MK Dons picked up their first win of the new season with a 3-0 win over Carlisle United at Stadium MK.
First half goals by Callum Hendry and Alex Gilbey gave the home side the advantage before an injury time third by Joe Tomlinson secured Mike Williamson’s side their first win of the new campaign.
Success saw the Dons bounce back from three defeats in league and cup, as they popped up to 15th place in the table after the opening stages following their last game of August.
A reshuffled Dons side included a Dons debut for Laurence Maguire and a first start for his fellow summer arrival Connor Lemonhaigh-Evans, who made his debut as a substitute last week.
The opening phase of the game saw sporadic half-chances, with Carlisle seeing an opening nearly open for Daniel Adu-Adjei without yielding a shot before Aaron Hayden had a shot from range kept out by Tom McGill, while the Dons saw Lemonhaigh-Evans have a shot from range fall wide of the mark.
But with 18 minutes of the clock, space opened up and it yielded a Dons goal. Gilbey was able to thread the ball through to Aaron Nemane, who got space to run down the right flank before teeing up Hendry for a first-time shot into the bottom corner for his first Dons goal.
Tomlinson then saw a strike denied by Harry Lewis, before another Nemane cross saw a scramble at the near post as the Dons began to develop momentum.
The hosts would duly grab a second just after the half hour mark. Space opened up down the flank for Lemonhaigh-Evans, who found Nemane. The wing-back’s cross was duly in place for Gilbey, who slid in to get the ball into the Carlisle goal and had the Dons a second goal.
MK Dons came close again when Lewis denied Hendry, with Carlisle’s best chances of an immediate response seeing efforts from outside the box by Harrison Neal and Ben Barclay blocked.
The Dons were forced into a change just after the break, however, as after picking up two knocks that required treatment, Luke Offord was taken off injured.
Carlisle were then very close a way back when the ball fell kindly for Adu-Adjei, who rushed his shot when well placed and put it wide.
Adu-Adjei then saw another shot on the stretch denied by home goalkeeper Tom McGill, before the Dons’ Stephen Wearne saw a curling shot just flash past the target.
McGill then made a flying stop to deny Carlisle substitute Dominic Sadi, with the visitors also having two penalty appeals waved away.
But the visitors’ attempts at halving the deficit ran out of steam, and the Dons would duly grab a late third.
Tomlinson was picked out in space on the side of the penalty area by substitute Tommy Leigh, and the wing-back’s strike ended up creeping in to the back post, despite both Ellis Harrison and Gilbey coming close to getting a touch.
Things could’ve been worse for Carlisle, with Tomlinson and Callum Tripp both missing the target with late efforts, but the home side had done the job to get the victory.
MK Dons: McGill – Sherring, Offord (Tucker 54), Maguire – Nemane (Tripp 90), Lemonhaigh-Evans (Williams 90), Carroll, Tomlinson – Wearne (Leigh 80), Hendry (Harrison 80), Gilbey
Subs not used: Harness, Lewington, Williams, Tripp
Goal: Hendry (19), Gilbey (31)
Booked: Wearne, Nemane
Carlisle: Lewis – Davies, Williams, Hayden, Lavelle, Mellish (Ellis 73) – Vela, Barclay (Sadi 45), Neal – Wyke (Kelly 73 (Butterworth 85)), Adu-Adjei (Armstrong 67)
Subs not used: Breeze, Butterworth, Allen
Luton Town remain winless in the new Championship season after a 1-0 defeat to Preston North End.
A first half goal by Will Keane decided the contest for the home side, who picked up a first win of the season and victory in their game under the management of new boss Paul Heckingbottom.
Defeat means that the Hatters have picked up one point from their upcoming three games as they seek to go again following relegation from last season’s Premier League.
The Hatters arrived at Deepdale with a reshuffle, as defender Mark McGuinness made his debut following his midweek arrival from Cardiff while James Shea started in goal in place of the suspended Thomas Kaminski.
Luton had their chances in the first half, as Elijah Adebayo headed over from an early corner before Carlton Morris was denied by Freddie Woodman at another corner and Shandon Baptiste also missed the target with a first half effort.
But having failed to take one, Luton were punished when Preston took the lead in the final ten minutes of the first half. Kaine Kesler-Hayden released Emil Riis, who advanced down the home side’s left flank before cutting back for Keane to control the ball and then place a low shot past Shea.
Woodman made stops early in the second half to deny Adebayo and Jordan Clark, while Alfie Doughty later had one shot blocked and another off target.
But despite making a full roster of five changes, Luton struggled to find opportunities in the final stages to score an equaliser as they slipped to reverse in Lancashire.
The Hatters will seek a first win in an upcoming double-header with QPR, when they play the West London club in the EFL Cup on Tuesday and then the Championship on Friday.
Northampton played out a 2-2 draw with Barnsley thanks to two goals in quick succession to wipe out a two goal deficit.
Barnsley had taken the lead through Max Watters just before the half-hour mark and doubled it through Adam Phillips in the opening minute of the second half.
But substitute Liam McCarron halved Barnsley’s lead and within five minutes, fellow sub Jack Baldwin’s goal brought Northampton back on level terms.
A draw means that Northampton pick up their first draw of the season, having lost one and won one of their first two games of the new League One campaign.
A busy start at Oakwell saw multiple early chances. Luke Mbete headed wide from a corner by Cobblers debutant Samy Chouchane, before Barnsley’s Sam Cosgrove fired a rebound wide when well placed.
Mbete saw a cross deflected just wide by a Barnsley defender, but it would be the home side that got the game’s first goal.
That came from Watters, with the former Cardiff striker in place to score after receiving Cosgrove’s lay-off.
The Cobblers lost Jordan Willis to injury but would have chances in the latter stages of the first half, as Mitch Pinnock and Sam Hoskins saw strikes just miss the target before Willis’ replacement Baldwin forced a flying stop out of Barnsley goalkeeper Gabriel Slonina.
That save proved more crucial for Barnsley when they took a 2-0 lead early in the second half. A clearance by Baldwin was intercepted, allowing Phillips to advance and beat Lee Burge in a one-on-one.
Barnsley had chances to pull further ahead, with Cosgrove hitting the crossbar and firing another strike wide.
But Northampton then made things interesting when they scored a goal back with just under 20 minutes remaining. McCarron, who had just come on, received Callum Morton’s pass and was able to pick his spot and score.
Northampton would gain momentum and equalised five minutes later, as a header from Baldwin when he met Pinnock’s free-kick found the back of the net despite Baldwin getting knocked by a home player.
The visitors would see the job through to take a point on their trip to a side who qualified for the play-offs season, giving Northampton four points from their first three goals of the season. Jon Brady’s side will seek to add to their total when they welcome Burton Albion to Sixfields next Saturday.
Police are appealing for witnesses after an arson incident in the car park of a supermarket in Milton Keynes.
As part of their appeal, Thames Valley Police have released images of men that they wish to speak to in relation to the incident, which happened at around 11.55pm last Saturday (17/8).
The incident happened in the car park of the Asda supermarket on Bletcham Way in the Denbigh area of the city.
A group had turned up for an illegal car meet when two men poured a large circle of petrol and ignited it for vehicles to drive around it.
This melted the tarmac and caused a large amount of damage to the car park.
Investigating officer Tyrone Powell, of the Joint Roads Policing Unit, said, “I am appealing for anyone who recognise the people in the photo to please come forward.
“We are also asking any witnesses or anyone with information or any images or footage of the assault to contact us via 101 or make a report on our website, quoting reference number 43240396844.
“You can also send footage to us, like dash-cam or mobile phone footage, directly via this dedicated online portal.
“Alternatively, you can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or via its website.”
