@fastiesty The Dutch government hasn’t stepped in to save the Dutch cycling team known as Belkin now, Rabobank before, despite being a lot more popular than any Dutch F1 driver post-Verstappen. I really don’t think they’d sponsor Frijns even if he went on to win in other classes, which he should start considering soon, because he’s on the road to oblivion, rather than F1 right now.
There have been more Dutch F1 candidates in recent years who had no problem getting through the lower classes, but never got into F1, like Melker, van der Zande and Crevels in the past. All talented drivers, which leads me to think de Vries and Verstappen might not get through as easy as people are thinking right now either.
Dutch sponsors are historically more likely to sponsor a team than a driver as well, as is evident with Randstad sponsoring Williams and Philips sponsoring them in the past. Apart from Shell, Unilever, Philips and Randstad, we don’t have that many multinationals which have anything to do in F1, either.
Even if the government gets involved, that doesn’t have to mean success in the long run. Prost Grand Prix basically went under because Chirac ended the mandate that French businesses had to support French sporting teams, Gauloises left, as did Total, as did Bic and one could argue about Agfa (even though they’re Belgian, they left the sport entirely after leaving Prost).