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By: Kike Frías Updated 26 Sea 2022, 17: 36 pm EDT
The Mexican driver Sergio ‘Checo’ Pérez (Red Bull) will start first this Sunday at the Arabian Grand Prix Saudi, second in the Formula One World Championship, after having dominated qualifying at the Jeddah street circuit.
Very happy to get my first pole position on the toughest circuit in the world. Let’s give it all tomorrow 💪
Thank u @redbullracing
Happy to get my first pole on the most difficult circuit in the world! Let’s go with everything tomorrow! 🇲🇽 pic.twitter.com/uKqmpVKxZH
The Aztec relegated to second and third place the Ferraris of Monegasque Charles Leclerc and Spanish Carlos Sainz; in a hectic day marked by the accident of the German Mick Schumacher (Haas) and in which the seven-time English world champion Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) was eliminated in the first round (Q1).
Czech, from 32 years, achieved his first ‘pole’ in F1 by covering 6.175 meters of the fastest street circuit in the world in a minute, 28 seconds and 200 thousandths, less than Leclerc -World Cup leader- and with 202 advantage over Sainz; who will start third, next to the other Red Bull, that of his former Dutch teammate Max Verstappen -the last world champion- and from the second row.
The other Spaniard, the double Asturian world champion Fernando Alonso (Alpine), will enter the race from seventh place, alongside the Finn Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo) and in the fourth row.
Without reaching the end of Friday, in which there was an attack claimed by the Houthis of Yemen on a facility oil company located about kilometers of the circuit, the day had all kinds of emotions and ended, after the scare carried out by the son of the ‘Kaiser’, with an entire exhibition of the Mexican from Red Bull, twice winner and with fifteen podiums in the queen category, in which this Sunday he hopes to polish his record.
After a long night of e meetings that did not conclude until almost half past two in the morning, the pilots, who considered the possibility of not continuing to race because of the aforementioned attack, finally decided that the Grand Prix would continue its course; and on the morning of this Saturday both the FIA and F1 made public a statement confirming this circumstance.
The Mexican will seek his third victory in F1 this Sunday, with the permission of the Ferrari and his teammate Verstappen, who starts fourth in a race that Alonso -ninth in Bahrain- will face from seventh place.
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