The Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull) will start first in the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, after having dominated the qualification played on the Jeddah street circuit; where he relegated to second and third place to the Ferraris of Monegasque Charles Leclerc and Spaniard Carlos Sainz; on a day marked by the accident of German Mick Schumacher (Haas) and in which sevenfold English world champion Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) was eliminated in the first round (Q1).
Checo, 32, won his first pole in F1 by covering the 6,175 meters of the fastest street circuit in the world in one minute, 28 seconds and 200 thousandths, 25 fewer than Leclerc - World Cup leader - and with 202 ahead of Sainz; who will finish third, alongside the other Red Bull, that of former Dutch teammate Max Verstappen from the second row.
On Friday, there was an attack claimed by the Houthis of Yemen on an oil installation located some 15 kilometers from the circuit. After a long night of meetings that did not end until almost half past two in the morning, the drivers, who considered the possibility of not running because of the attack, finally decided that the Grand Prix should continue its course; and on Saturday morning both the FIA and F1 issued a statement confirming this circumstance.
The test dates were very moved not only because of that, but also because of the fright starred by the Kaiser's son, Mick Schumacher who suffered a brutal accident and had to be transported by helicopter to a hospital.
On the technical and very fast track of Jeddah - with long straights and 27 corners, most of them fast - there was the first surprise of the day in Q1, interrupted by the red flag for a few minutes, due to the accident without consequences of Canadian Nicholas Latifi (Williams). Hamilton was eliminated early in exchange, in the first round of the main timed.
The eccentric and spectacular Stevenage rider did not make the cut by scoring the sixteenth set. In just under four months, Hamilton went from signing the first pole in history in Jeddah to being left out in Q1. Something that hasn't happened since 2017, when he had the same fate in Brazil, at the Interlagos circuit, in Sao Paulo.
Mercedes, winner of the last eight Constructors' World Championships and who celebrated six of those with Hamilton winning the drivers', had suffered in the preseason; and although experts say that sooner or later she will fight for victories, this Saturday she had to settle for sixth place for the other Englishman, George Russell, who will start from the third row next to the Frenchman Esteban Ocon, Alonso's teammate.
TIME: 17:00 GMT (14:00 ARG-URU-CHI/13:00 PAR-VEN-BOL/12:00 COL-PER-ECU-MEX)
TV: ESPN +
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TOP 5
1- Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) 26 points
2- Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) 18 points
3- Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) 15 points
4- George Russell (Mercedes) 12 points
5- Kevin Magussen (Haas) 10 points
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