Max Verstappen of Red Bull Pole Cloué from the McLaren Oscar Piastri for the Saudi GP.© AFP
The Max Verstappen of Red Bull nailed the Oscar Piastri post of McLaren for the Saudi Grand Prix in a captivating qualification session on Saturday. The teammate of Piastri, the championship manager, Lando Norris, crashed during shot 10 of the top 10 and will start on the fifth row of the Sunday race. The quadruple world champion Verstappen was in an unstoppable form in the spotlight on the circuit of the Corniche of Jeddah at high speed, grabbing the front of the grid by hundredth of a second. It was a huge turnaround for the Dutch after he and his team Red Bull had trouble in Bahrain last weekend.
“Very happy! I certainly didn’t expect to be on the post here,” said a radiant slope.
“The car came to life in the night, we made final changes and it was more pleasant to drive, the grip came to me.
“I think that tomorrow in the race, it will be difficult to keep them (McLaren) behind, but we will try,” he added.
Norris leads the pilots’ classification of three Piastri points with Verstappen five points before this fifth round of the 24 races season.
George Russell goes to the second row in his Mercedes alongside the Ferrari de Charles Leclerc.
Kimi Antonelli in the other Mercedes is on the third row with Carlos Sainz in a Williams.
Lewis Hamilton de Ferrari, Yuki Tsunoda in the second Red Bull, Pierre Gasly and Norris of Alpine finished the top 10.
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