Posted: 16:04, 27 March 2022 | Updated: 21:36, 27 March 2022
Advertising Max Verstappen won a dramatic Saudi Arabia Grand Prix – as Lewis Hamilton continued to suffer in 10th place. The Dutchman prevented the Ferrari-man Leclerc’s second victory in a week, after his victory in Bahrain, making the decisive move with only four laps left to beat him in just half a second. Verstappen assisted in the victory in Jeddah when Williams’ Nicholas Latifi fell against the wall 17 laps in the race, pushing his front wing into the road. A virtual security car (VSC) was developed and then a real security car. At this point, pole man and legitimate leader Sergio Perez had thrown a pit and was fourth. Max Ferstappen returns from retirement in Bahrain to win the Saudi Grand Prix from fourth place on the grid Verstappen passes Charles Leclerc in the final laps after a tough fight that saw both men playing chicken with the DRS line Leclerc congratulated Ferstappen on the team’s radio after the second epic battle for the lead in several weeks The three men “in front” of him, but did not stop, then peeled for a free stand. From this point on, Leclerc took the lead with Verstappen second. Carlos Sainz in third Ferrari was third, where the Spaniard finished. As for Hamilton, he was left out, after climbing from 15th place on the grid to 10th place. By not betting, he reached seventh place and then passed Kevin Magnussen of Haas for sixth. He had to hope for a second VSC, which came in the 37th round, when Alpine’s Fernando Alonso and McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo stopped. But he could not take advantage of a free stop because the two hit cars were in the pit lane, which was therefore closed. Sergio Perez was disappointed to finish in fourth place after he pitched just before a safety car taken advantage of by his opponents. Nicholas Latifi in Williams crashed for the second time this weekend, causing Perez to fall behind Leclerc, Verstappen and Carlos Sainz. Lewis Hamilton was only able to finish in tenth place after making the one and only stop of the race late in the race. With nine laps left, the VSC left the scene, Hamilton entered, but came out in 12th place, before climbing two places to the finish. Verstappen first passed Leclerc in the 42nd lap of 50, but Monegasque returned to the lead within minutes. It was a good fight. Then, finally, Verstappen took the lead in the pit straight at the start of lap 47 and zoomed in a little further, making the timing screens purple, which writes fast. Finally he kept the delayed rise of Leclerc. George Russell finished fifth, one place behind Perez, but more than half a minute away from the pace. Ferrari and Red Bull are in a league of two. Hamilton missed the opportunity to enter the pit behind the VSC after Valtteri Bottas (photo), Fernando Alonso and Daniel Ricciardo suffered successive mechanical problems and withdrew from the race. Verstappen got his first points of the season and is now 20 behind the league leader Leclerc, who also made the fastest lap George Russell was fifth in his Mercedes, but far from the top drivers of Red Bull and Ferrari Sportsmail’s Kieran Lynch provided updates on a live blog about the Saudi Grand Prix.
