Formula 1 today: Oscar piastri triumphed at the Saudi Arabia Grand Prix

Jidda. Australian Oscar Piastri from McLaren won the Sunday’s Grand Prix of Saudi Arabia, the fifth event of this year’s MS F1 series.

He triumphed in front of the reigning world champion Dutchman Max Verstappen of Red Bull, the third was finished by Monacor Charles Leclerc, who won the first podium placement for Ferrari this season.

For Piastri it was the fifth victory in the career and a total of 14 podium placement.

The twenty -four -year -old Australian rejoiced after the start of the second position, and he stepped to the highest stage for the second time in a row. He scored the triumph a week ago at the event in Bahrain.

He also got to the position of leader of the overall ranking. He became the first Australian to lead the classification since Mark Webber. The former racer is also a piastri manager.

The course of the race

Safety Car went out on the track in all previous events at the city circuit in Jidda.

It was no different now, and German Bernd Mayländer had a job on his Aston Martin in the first round.

Juki Cunoda and Pierre Gasly got in touch and the race was over for both.

The Commissioners also returned to the duel of Piastri with Verstappen. Finally, the Dutchman was punished just before the restart of the race with a strict five -second penalty for shortening bullying in the first bend.

Video: Start of the race

He didn’t need to overtake the four -time champion, it was enough to hold the rest of the field behind him and check the virtual leadership.

The fighter ride went to Piastri’s teammate Lando Norris. The British pilot started out of 10 positions after he broke his monopost in the qualifying.

McLaren decided to try to put on hard tires first and go to the first long « stint ».

At the final 15 laps he had a medium hard orchard, plus clean air in front of him.

Not only virtual, but also physically took the lead and guarded his lead at five seconds.

Although Vestappen released a little closer, he did not allow the drama and enjoyed the triumph on the finish line.

Norris got fourth in front of Facarian George Russell of Mercedes.

He also moved the lead to the third Lecler. However, he did not let Norrisa use the DRS system and defended the first stage for the Maranella team this season.