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Formula One is back from the summer break and heading to Zandvoort for the Dutch Grand Prix, running from the twenty-first to the twenty-third of August — and it's a historic one, as this will be the final time the circuit hosts the event. The fifth of six sprint races on the two thousand twenty-six calendar is on the schedule, with a slight tweak to the format: six cars now get eliminated in the first two qualifying rounds, up from five last year.
And the man to beat heading into that weekend is nineteen-year-old Kimi Antonelli. The Italian teenager leads the drivers' championship by fifty points over Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton, having already banked six wins across eleven races this season. The Mercedes prodigy is driving like someone who's been doing this for a decade, not someone who only just became eligible to vote.
Shifting to the pitch, Manchester City are closing in on Morocco midfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi, with advanced talks underway between City and Lille. The young playmaker has been on the radar of several top European clubs, and if City get this one over the line, it signals another calculated move in their ongoing squad rebuild.
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