A brilliant opening maneuver of Oscar Piastri earned him the Saudi Grand Prix and the head of the Formula 1 pilot championship.
This is the first time that Australian has led the pilot championship for 15 years after his manager Mark Webber in 2010.
On the turn, Piastri obtained inside Max Verstappen, who had started the race on the post, which allowed the Dutchman to drive the road to recover the head. He then received a five -second penalty allowing Piastri to take the lead when the Red Bull driver opposed and to hold him to the checkered flag.
Verstappen was 2.843 seconds late with Charles Leclerc de Ferrari composing the podium.
Piastri won the head of the teammate McLaren Lando Norris, who started in 10th after having crashed into qualification and arrived fourth.
The Australian recruit Jack Doohan finished 17th in his alpine.
The F1 star Aussie Oscar Piastri won the Saudi Grand Prix
Piastri has now won the consecutive GPS and runs the F1 championship
It is early with only five races, but after a ninth disappointing in the opening race in Melbourne Piastri is the pilot of form, having won Shanghai, Bahrain last week, and now Jeddah, and finished third in Suzuka.
“I am not disturbed to direct the world championship, but I am proud of the hard work that we have done to arrive here,” said Piastri.
“I want to lead the championship after the 24th, not fifth row.”
“It was a fairly difficult race, one of the most difficult of my career,” he added after 50 temperature turns of 30 degrees around a very fast track.
Each previous race for this season, including the Chinese sprint, had been won with pole, but Piastri obtained a large launch of the line and moved inside Verstappen.
The Dutchman plunged through runoff and stayed in advance, with Piastri on the radio to say: “He needs to return it, I was ahead.”
Verstappen’s point of view was: “He forced me to leave, there was no intention of him to make this corner.”
The commissioners rose with Piastri while Verstappen received a penalty of five seconds. “Well, it’s very charming,” said Verstappen.
This is the first time that Australian has run the pilot championship for 15 years, according to his manager Mark Webber in 2010
“Once I got inside, I didn’t get out of the round one in second. In the end, this is what earned us the race today, “said Piastri on arrival.
Subsequently, Verstappen said that he could not share his real feelings because “people cannot manage the truth”.
“It is better not to talk about it,” he said. “Anything I say can cause me trouble. Sometimes your words can be twisted or interpreted in a different way.
“You cannot share your opinions because it is not appreciated as it was. People cannot manage the truth.
Red Bull’s director of the Red Bull team Christian Horner said his driver should not have been penalized.
“At the top of the corner, we think Max is clearly in advance,” said Horner.
“I don’t see how they came to this conclusion. I don’t know what happened to “let them run”. It seems to have been abandoned.
“I knew I was enough of my car in front to take the first corner,” said Pitri. “I slowed down as late that I could stay on the track. The way it was treated was the right thing.
Further on, still on the first round, Yuki Tsunoda and Pierre Gasly hit wheels and were both released – forcing an early safety car.
Verstappen obtained the jump on Piastri at the restart while the McLaren was forced to defend itself from George Russell, who would later be fifth of the Mercedes.
Piastri opposed the Tour 19, dragging almost three seconds, with Verstappen in two laps later. The Dutchman served his penalty and emerged three seconds late.
On his locations, Piastri has finished a sensational surpassing on Lewis Hamilton.
Once he has gained clean air before Verstappen, Piastri presented the McLaren power to switch to victory.
Piastri now has 99 points for Norris’s 89 and Verstappen 87. The McLaren champions extended their lead over Mercedes in the manufacturers’ ranking at 77 points.
The next race is in Miami on May 4.
