Pakistan, Aug. 22 -- Max Verstappen is staying in Formula 1, the Dutch Grand Prix is leaving and Kimi Antonelli remains the driver to beat.

F1 returned from its mid-season break with an intriguing challenge for the drivers Friday, but Antonelli still led the way. The single practice session for the Dutch Grand Prix was held on a drying, constantly-changing track after rain. McLaren and Ferrari drivers traded quickest laps before Mercedes' Antonelli beat both rival teams late in the session, going fastest by 0.121 of a second from McLaren's Lando Norris, who won the last race in Hungary on July 26 on a similarly tight and twisty track.

Antonelli's Mercedes teammate George Russell was third and the Ferraris of Lewis Hamilton and Charles L...