Five winners and five losers from the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix
Who𓃲 starred and who had a race to forget a🎶t the 2025 F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix?

One driver delivered a statement victory on his way to moving into the lead of the F1 world championship.
It was the perfect ending to F✤1 2025’s first triple header for the driver in form who once again em🅘erged as our biggest winner from round five.
Here is whoꦰ else impressed and underwhelmed in Jeddah…
Winner - Oscar Piastri
Undoubtedly, the big winner coming away from Saudi Arabia - and the triple header - is 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri.
Piastri made it back to back wins in the Middle East to take his third victory of the year and with it move into the world championship lead ahead of McLaren teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris, who ends up as a bit of a ‘🎃loser’ despite his damage-limiting recovery to fourth.
It was another faultless drive from Piastri, who, having narrowly missed out on pole to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, benefitted from a penalty for his main rival to assert his credentials♔ in the title race.

Loser - Lewis Hamilton
A shocker in Saudi Arabia for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton, whose ea🍸rly woes with Fe⛎rrari continued on race day.
Hamilton described the race as “horrible” and had no explanation for his lack of pace as he finished where he qualified in seventh, a whopping 31 seconds and four places behind teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc.
Th🅰e seven-time world champion seems lost with Ferrari’s 2025 car and does not appear to have an answer to his early teething troubles.
Winner - Williams
Another big winner on the night was Williams.
After a brilliant lap from 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz in qualifying to put his Williams sixth, the team would have been hoping ꧒for points, but to end up with both their cars inside the top-10 was a ꦚhuge bonus.
Sainz knew he wasn’t in a race with the likes of Hamilton and Norris but perfectly executed his run to eighth, and even dragged teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Alex Albon along in his DRS to help protect a P8-P9 finish that moves Williams up to fifth in the construct🎉ors’ championship.

Loser - Yuki Tsunoda
It had been looking like another encouraging weekend for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda, who for the second time in a week progressed into Q3 and looked in a solid place to score more🔯 points for Red 𝓡Bull.
But those hopes vanished on the first lap when he got tangled up with Alpine’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pierre Gasly in a race-ending incident for the pair.
While i🔴t was simply a racing incident with no obvious blame apportioned to either driver, Tsunoda certainly comes away from Jeddah as a loser. That’s three races with Red Bull and just two points to show for it.
Winner - Charles Leclerc
Leclerc has made his frustration at Ferrari’s deficit to the frontrunners clear but he turned in another starring p✱erfor⛎mance on Sunday night.
Despite having to drive around the deficiencies of his SF-25, Leclerc was at times the fastest man on track as he scored Ferrari’s fඣirst podium of the year with a brilliant run to๊ third.
L♕eclerc once again comfortably outperformed Hamilton all we🦄ekend as he continues to be the shining light of what has otherwise been a massively disappointing start to 2025 for Ferrari.

Loser - Alpine
Alpine were targeting consecutive finishes in the points after Gasly once again qualified ඣinside the top 10, but the French team came away from Jeddah empty-handed after their lead driver was wiped out on Lap 1.
With 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Doohan too far back to challenge for points in Gasly’s absence, it ended up being another weekend Alpi🍒ne, who have a quicker car than their championship position suᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚggests, were left to rue what might have been.
Winner - Max Verstappen
Verstappen may have been left fuming 𒁏at a penalty he felt cost him victory, the Dutchman should be happy when he looks back on the weekend once the dust༺ has settled.
Red Bull ultimately produced a remarkable turnaround following their horror show in Bahrain, as Verstappen pulled off another special lap to claim an unlikely𒅌 pole and contested foღr the win throughout.
The team and Verstappen will be buoyed how competitive they were in Jeddah, with the four-time world♍ champion only 2.8s behind Piastri at the chequere🧔d flag. Verstappen also gained ground on Norris.
Loser - Mercedes
After another promising showing in qualifying left 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell fr༺ustrated to have missed out on pole as he took third, Mercedes’ pace disappeared on Sunday.
Russell lo🐷oked set to be Verstappen and Piastri’s nearest challenger but he ended up being beaten by both Leclerc and Norris and struggled for pace o🔜n both the medium and hard compound.
Late degradation concerns left him nursing his car home to a distant fifth, ahead of rookie teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Kimi Antonelli whꦺo fared no better inꦯ a rather anonymous race for Mercedes.

Winner - Isack Hadjar
A strong drive from168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Isack Hadjar who made the most of a great strategy to work his way into the top-10 and grab the fin𝔉al point on offer in 10t🦩h.
The French rookie got the better of teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Liam Lawson on race day after suffering his first qualifying defeat to the sacked Red ꦓBull driver on Saturday.
Following Tsunoda’s promotion to the main Red Bull squad, Hadjar is quickly asserting himself as the team leader at Racin♔g Bull♚s.
Loser - Lance Stroll
A weekend to forget for168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lance Stroll, who broke one of F1’s unwanted records for the most Q1 qualifying ꦰexits in historꦦy, having been eliminated at the first stage for a 75th time.
Despite two DNFS, Stroll was only able to f🦩inish where he started in 16th and a lap down, while he was also beaten by a slower Sauber in the proce༺ss.
Aston Martin do not have a competitive car this season but teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso was still able to reach Q2 and drag his c꧙a🎉r to 11th.


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