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Sergio Perez dominated the field around the Jeddah Street Circuit to take the fifth victory of his Formula One career at the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

He's flying out there, just like his teammate Perez who now nearly holds a second gap to Alonso in the race lead. LIGHTS OUT: We're underway here in Jeddah and Alonso leads the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix!!! Lap 3: Perez now leads the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix!!! Leclerc is pressuring him from behind now as the Ferrari man makes his way past Gasly and up into P8. Lap 10: Leclerc opens up his DRS and breezes past Hamilton on the start/finish straight. That could explain how both Ferrari's managed to jump the Canadian in the pits. He manages to serve his five-second penalty and still maintain P2 on the track. Lap 34: Hamilton is now beginning to fall further back time-wise against his teammate as Russell responds to that potential decision to swap the Mercedes order. The difference in speed there between the Red Bull and the Mercedes cars was frightening. Lap 48: Not to jinx everyone in the top order but this race is just about done. On that occasion, the subsequent race didn't exactly go to plan as a safety car ruined his chance to earn top spot. The Aston Martin driver was originally demoted down to P4 after the race after gaining an additional 10-second penalty as his team failed to serve an earlier five-second penalty correctly in the pit lane, though that decision was later reversed by the FIA giving the Spaniard a landmark 100th career podium.

Red Bull Racing maintained its impressive start to the 2023 Formula 1 season in Saudi Arabia – though this time it was Sergio Perez who led home World ...

“We were able to have a good race, get a good start, manage the tires well – especially on the hard compound when I was on older tires than Tsunoda and actually had less degradation. That we have a weakness in the race, that we need to wait for developments to come to see if we can improve that weakness.” “It was a bit worse in the race than we were hoping for, we struggled in the dirty air too much. I was then able to get past him at the end, and we managed to get a point.” McLaren suffered another dismal race in Saudi Arabia – from a race that had initial promise on one side of the garage. It later emerged that both Race Control and the FIA’s Remote Operations Centre had initially given Alonso the all-clear but was then prodded on the last lap – likely by a rival team that would benefit – to take another look at the situation. “The last stint on the Hard [tires] proves that we are not where we want to be,” said Sainz. But it is a little bit sad for the FIA yes.” “So I thought that communication was the same to Max. But shortly after third-placed Alonso celebrated the 100th podium of his career he was hit with a 10-second time drop due to the original penalty being incorrectly served. Red Bull’s pace advantage around the Jeddah Corniche Circuit was such that he was able to breeze past Fernando Alonso – having lost out on the opening lap – and from there he opened and preserved a buffer to his closest challengers. Verstappen holds a slender one-point buffer over Perez in the championship on account of setting the race’s fastest lap.

Nat. Team, Time. 1, Sergio Perez, MEX, Oracle Red Bull Racing, 50 Laps. 2, Max Verstappen, NED, Oracle Red Bull Racing, 5.355s.

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