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F1: Chequered Flag

Saudi Arabian Grand Prix qualifying review

F1: Chequered Flag

BBC

Sports

4.22.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Harry Benjamin, Sam Bird and Andrew Benson look back at qualifying from Jeddah as Max Verstappen claimed pole and Lando Norris crashed out. We hear from both drivers, as well as Oscar Piastri and George Russell.

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0:47.3

A dramatic qualifying session,

0:49.2

under the lights in Saudi Arabia,

0:52.4

which saw Max Verstappen take a sensational pole position,

0:56.1

and Oscar Piastri will line up alongside him in his McLaren. However, McLaren's Formula E driver, Sam Bird, who is alongside me along with the BBC's F1 correspondent Andrew Benson.

1:03.5

My name's Harry Benjamin.

1:04.6

We have to start with Lando Norris, crashing out dramatically in the final part of Quali.

1:15.6

Sam, just talk us through firstly what happened to Lando and why did he crash? Oh, it was...

1:17.6

Enough set.

1:18.6

No, that was a hard watch, hard, hard watch.

1:21.6

So out of turn one and two, everything looked in control and then through turns 4 and into 5, it looks

1:30.7

like he's just missed the apex a little bit at turn 4, then had a little bit of mid-corner

1:36.0

oversteer, then got on the throttle in anticipation for the exit, which has lit up the rear

1:42.6

ties. He's had a little bit more of an overstay, hit the curb on the exit of four,

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