The victory was a ninth in a row for Verstappen.
as Red Bull continued their dominant start to the Formula One season with a second one-two in as many races.
Mexican Sergio Perez was runner-up under the Jeddah floodlights, last year’s winner taking the chequered flag 13.643 seconds behind his triple world champion team mate, with Charles Leclerc third for Ferrari. The victory was a ninth in a row for Verstappen, dating back to Japan last September, and 56th of the 26-year-old Dutch driver’s career.
Britain’s Oliver Bearman, making his F1 race debut as Ferrari’s youngest ever rookie at 18 years and 305 days old after Spaniard Carlos Sainz was sidelined by appendicitis, finished seventh and was voted Driver of the Day. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies.
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