No perfect 10s at the SaudiArabianGP , but still plenty of high scores on display in Jeddah. Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris amongst those to disappoint. F1
Saudi Arabian GP driver ratings: Super Sergio Perez, sub-par Sainz and Norris nightmareThe Saudi Arabian Grand Prix driver ratings are in! How do our scores from Jeddah stack up to your post-race analysis?Every driver starts the weekend slap bang in the middle with a 5/10 rating and we operate on a sliding scale from there.
It would have been interesting to see how he would have fared with a charging Verstappen behind him but alas, that fight will hopefully come another day.As many who have predicted, Max Verstappen made small work of tearing through the field from his P15 starting spot, moving within the top 10 inside the opening nine laps.
Perhaps it is telling that when he initially lost his P3 spot, Alonso was not too worried as he is clearly a man who believes it is more than just podiums in his future.There was not a small out of fortune for George Russell to be standing on the podium but as the old saying goes, you’ve got to be in it win it and Russell ensured that if anyone in the top three were going to make a mistake, it was him who would cash in.
Unable to move past Ocon, he was pretty easily dispatched by Leclerc and then Verstappen but the choice to start on hards would massively pay off for reasons that the team had perhaps not predicted. His one saving grace was being able to keep Leclerc behind him late on to hold onto P6 but the Spaniard has yet again shown an inability to challenge at the very top of the grid.When Charles Leclerc looks back on this race and wonders why he finished P7 and 43 seconds off the leader, he will come to the conclusion that not much of the blame lies with him.
Unable to keep the trio of Hamilton, Verstappen and Leclerc behind him, it was Ocon’s P8 to lose and he held onto to it until the chequered flag.
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