By: EFE Updated 27 Mar 2022, 15: 39 pm EDT
The Dutch Max Verstappen (Red Bull), last world champion, won the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix the second of the Formula One World Championship, which was held this Sunday, with artificial light, on the circuit city of Jeddah, where the Monegasque Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), who was second, maintained the leadership of the contest.
Verstappen, from 24 years, added his twenty-first victory in F1, winning ahead of Leclerc -author of the fastest lap- and from the other Ferrari, that of the Spanish Carlos Sainz , who, by finishing third, added his second podium so far this season, the eighth since he has raced in F1 and the sixth since he did it for the ‘Scuderia’.
The Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull) was fourth in a race in which the other Spaniard, the Asturian double world champion Fernando Alonso (Alpine) left due to a problem engine, in the absence of 14 laps to finish.
The Mercedes of the Englishman George Rusell finished fifth, ahead of the Alpine of the Frenchman Esteban Ocon and the McLaren of the Englishman Lando Norris, who finished seventh this Sunday on the shores of the Red Sea.
Frenchman Pierre Gasly (Alpha Tauri) finished the second race of the year in eighth position , one place ahead of Dane Kevin Magnussen (Haas). His two companions, the Japanese Yuki Tusnoda -due to an engine failure- and the German Mick Schumacher, as a preventive measure after his accident on Saturday, did not start in a race in which, instead of twenty pilots, they participated, for that reason, 18.
Also scoring, finishing tenth, was the seven-time English world champion Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), who after being eliminated in Q1 (the first round of qualifying) started fifteenth and finished tenth.
The third race of the year, the Australian Grand Prix, will be held on 10 April at the semi-urban circuit of Albert Park, in Melbourne.
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