The world champion team Red Bull Racing continued to show extraordinary competitiveness in the Saudi Arabia GP. Sergio Perez, who was on the pole, regained the lead lost at the start, and then left everyone and went straight to the finish line, easily winning the race.
Benefiting from the pit stop during the deployment of the safety car, Max Verstappen overcame the adversity of being forced to start from the 15th place due to a vehicle failure in qualifying, successfully returned to the second place and won the runner-up seat, and then helped the Red Bull team win the championship, A runner-up finish.
Thanks to the related penalties caused by Fernando Alonso’s violation at the start, George Russell, who was helpless once morest the Aston Martin driver throughout the race, was finally able to make up for the third place and won a third place for the Mercedes AMG team.
At the beginning of the 50-lap race at the Jeddah Corniche Street Circuit, although Alonso took the lead by seizing a favorable position and getting rid of Perez, who was on the pole at the first corner, the Mexican driver quickly took advantage of the extreme speed of the Red Bull car to take the lead in the first corner. On the first turn of the 4th lap, he regained his position.
Then Perez gradually left Alonso behind and walked alone until Lance Stroll, another Aston Martin driver, retired due to engine failure on the 18th lap and led to the safety car, and everyone gathered once more. However, this episode did not cause trouble for Perez, and following the race resumed, he opened the gap once more and went straight to the checkered flag to win.
Although Verstappen did not win a lot of positions at the start, but with the strength of Red Bull Racing, he rushed to the sixth position before the safety car debut, and later made a pit stop during the deployment of the safety car, without any effort The driver who completed the pitstop ahead of him came to fourth.
After the race resumed, Verstappen took some time to get rid of Russell and Alonso, so he was opened by his teammates for more than 5 seconds. Later, due to some racing factors, he might not make up for it, and finally finished as the runner-up. In order to run the fastest lap at the last moment and get an extra point, he was able to take the lead in the drivers championship.
Alonso’s performance in the second round of this season is still outstanding. Not only did he take the lead at the beginning of the race, he also cleverly used the method of following the powerful Red Bull driver for a period of time to throw off the strong opponent behind him, and maintained a certain gap to protect the tires. Became the third driver to pass the checkered flag.
It’s a pity that the Spanish veteran didn’t do what he said before the game. To beat an opponent of comparable strength, he must pay attention to details. Because of the deviation of the stop position when he started, he was first fined with a 5-second overtime penalty. Another 10-second penalty for inaccurate execution of the penalty caused him to drop behind Russell and lose the third place.
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Although the speed of the Mercedes car has improved this weekend, the overall competitiveness is still not as good as their customer Aston Martin. Russell has not been able to keep up with Alonso’s rhythm, but he was able to keep the Ferrari driver behind and was able to get a penalty in Alonso. When promoted to the third place.
Lewis Hamilton, whose qualifying results were not as ideal as his teammates, adopted a different strategic thinking. Although starting with hard tires made him drop two positions in the early stage of the race, he once threatened the status of his teammates following switching to softer compounds. . He then had to slow down to protect his tyres, but still managed to finish fifth.
In the official race, the Ferrari team not only lacked enough competitiveness, but also lacked luck. Due to the relationship between the first station to change tires before the safety car debut, Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc were easily ahead of some target opponent drivers, and they Unable to counterattack, they finished sixth and seventh place bitterly.
The Alpine team, whose paint was a bit faded in the opening Bahrain GP, performed much more decently this weekend. Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly both ensured the results they should have achieved as the fifth fastest team on the field, finishing eighth and ninth. The Haas team’s Kevin Magnussen, following a long battle with AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda in the late stage of the race, took the last point by killing the Japanese driver on the penultimate lap.
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