At 2.65 miles, the seaside venue is the second shortest on the calendar behind only Monaco.
These tight confines have already led to several incidents throughout Friday practice of drivers complaining of having been blocked.
Notably, Haas driver Nico Hulkenberg has escaped a punishment from the stewards for potentially impeding Max Verstappen through the Turn 12 left-hander during FP2.
But drivers fear this matter could come to a head during a congested qualifying session, with FP2 pacesetter Lando Norris saying Friday running had already resulted in "chaos".
The McLaren driver told Sky Sports: “It’s already pretty chaotic, so I’m not expecting an easy [qualifying] or straightforward one. A lot of people blocking and causing chaos today.
“It’s always worse here because it’s such a short lap. High-speed corners always at the end of the lap is a tricky one.”
Likewise, Alfa Romeo driver Zhou Guanyu’s “crazy” experiences on Friday has left him to predict a potential “nightmare”. He added: “I think today, already, my runs, it’s crazy.
"Not just the high speed, obviously, when there’s a car even out of your way, you kind of get distracted a little bit with the wind effect.
“But especially the end of T12 is going to be mental, like all the other years! Hopefully we don’t make any mistakes.”
His Alfa team-mate Valtteri Bottas said that the flowing nature of Zandvoort and its lack of obvious straights made it “impossible to disappear” if he needed to get out the way of a closing car on a flying lap.
The Finn told F1TV: “It’s tricky here, short track, not much space between the cars and some places it’s almost impossible to disappear from the fast cars behind.
Source: Autosport