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🗓️ 20 April 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Harry, Sam and Andrew look back at the race in Jeddah that saw Oscar Piastri win his third race of the season. We hear from the McLaren driver who now leads the championship, as well as Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris.
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0:52.3 | We've made it to the end of the triple header, fresh off the back of 50 laps of racing around the Jeddah Corniche circuit. |
0:57.0 | And it's Oscar Piastri who has won the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. And with it, takes the lead in the Drivers' Championship. |
1:01.0 | We'll come onto that and indeed run you through all the finishes alongside me. |
1:05.0 | Harry Benjamin is the McLaren's Formula E driver, Sam Bird, and the BBC's F1 correspondent, Andrew Benson. |
1:11.2 | But before we come on to our race winner, guys, I want to start with, well, lap one, term one, |
1:17.2 | and Max Verstappen, who started on pole position, Sam, and then held the lead coming out through |
1:23.3 | turn two, but he cut the chicane in order to do it. First of all, can you just talk us through |
1:28.0 | what happened in that first corner? So, lights go out. Oscar Piastri gets a great launch from |
1:35.6 | second place, which is the inside line going into turn one. He's got his car fully alongside |
1:42.1 | Max Verstappen down the inside. |
1:44.7 | Max Verstappen, what it looks like he's done is something that he's kind of perfected |
1:49.9 | over the last five or six years where he releases the brake a little bit more and either |
1:55.6 | runs people off the track or will run off the track himself saying that somebody didn't leave him |
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