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Max Verstappen took a superb position of the pole after the leader of the Lando Norris championship collapsed during a spectacular qualification session for the Saudi Grand Prix.
Verstappen stalled Oscar Piastri 0.010 s with an incredible turn, similar to his efforts two weeks ago when he converted a surprise pole to victory to Suzuka.
Norris will start in 10th after having turned and hit the wall in the first sector in the first races in Q3, calling himself an “idiot” on the radio because he could lose his head in the ranking against Piastri or Verstappen in the Sunday race, Live on Sky Sports F1 at 6 p.m. (accumulation from 4.30 p.m.).
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Lando Norris underwent a big accident in his McLaren during the third trimester at the Saudi Grand Prix
Norris is only three points ahead of Piastri in the classification and eight points ahead of Verstappen, who showed once again that he could never be counted, even in a car theoretically slower than the McLaren.
George Russell was briefly on the pole, but contented himself third ahead of Charles Leclerc de Ferrari and the Mercedes Kimi Antonelli team.
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The Max Verstappen of Red Bull was just enough to beat McLaren Driver Oscar Piastri at the post around the Jeddah Corniche circuit
Carlos Sainz impressed Williams in sixth grade, while Lewis Hamilton survived two elimination nurseries to qualify seventh.
Yuki Tsunoda of Red Bull in the eighth and Pierre Gasly d’Alpine in ninth will be the first cars that Norris will need to exceed in what could be a Grand Prix Pivot in the first stadiums of the F1 reigning race.
How superb Verstappen capitalized on the Norris crash
All the main pretenders reached the third quarter and McLaren were the favorites for the post after having dominated the practice in the same way as Bahrain last week, where Piastri qualified first and collapsed to victory.
Seven days ago, Norris made a mistake in the stages of the qualifying crisis, but this time, he had great consequences on the delicate circuit of Jeddah Corniche, which separates the good and the big pilots.
Norris took too many sidewalk at the exit of turn 4, losing control of his car and turned into the wall in his first flying round in the third quarter. The British driver was incredibly frustrated and did not trust after admitting that he was not completely comfortable with the car in Saudi Arabia.
Piastri was the only driver to get the turn about the board for a while before the red flag left for McLaren struck with Norris. Interestingly, Verstappen was the only forerunner to make two points when the session resumed.
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Karun Chandhok was at Skypad to return to the accident of Lando Norris during the qualification for the Saudi Grand Prix
The reigning world champion rape Piprip of 0.001 at the start, but Russell and the McLaren driver went even faster, forcing Verstappen to find more time.
Red Bull has chosen to simply change the tires of Verstappen, not allowing time to fill up on the car or change the configuration, so it returned there and improved the Piastri reference time of 0.010 s.
“I certainly did not expect to be on the post here after FP3 and to see how the weekend was all weekend,” said Verstappen, who won twice in Saudi Arabia.
“The car came to life at night. We made final changes and it was much more pleasant to drive. The handle came to me and here, a qualification tour is extremely difficult because of all the walls – you really have to nail it.
“It’s really satisfactory. Being the first here in qualification is of course the best position for tomorrow even if I think that in the race, it will be difficult to keep them. But we will try to do our best.”
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Lewis Hamilton says it was grateful to have reached the third quarter
Leclerc again withdrew from his Ferrari in fourth, but was 0.376 s on the pace. He behaved better than Hamilton, who almost went out in the T1 and the first quarter.
The seven times world champion was slower throughout the Tour compared to Leclerc and did not have the same confidence all weekend as his teammate.
Alex Albon de Williams was just 0.007 from Hamilton in the second quarter, but will start from the 11th advance on the Bull race, Liam Lawson, who has obtained his best qualification result of the season so far.
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Look back on some of the most dramatic moments that took place on the Jeddah Corniche circuit
Sunday April 20
- 1 p.m.: F1 Academy Race 2
- 2:20 p.m.: F2 features breed
- 4:30 p.m.: Accumulation of Saudi GP: Sunday Grand Prix
- 6 p.m.: The Saudi Grand Prix * *
- 8 p.m.: Saudi GP reaction: checkered flag
* Live on the main event of Sky Sports
Formula 1 completes its first 2025 triple head of 2025 in Jeddah with the Saudi Grand Prix this weekend, live on Sky Sports F1. Stream Sky Sports with now – no contract, cancel at any time
