Race
F1 2025
Round 5

Verstappen Takes P2, Hadjar Scores Point in Saudi Arabia GP

sa Jeddah

Max Verstappen finishes 2nd, Tsunoda retires; Hadjar scores a point in Saudi Arabia.

Verstappen Takes P2, Hadjar Scores Point in Saudi Arabia GP

Oracle Red Bull Racing's Max Verstappen finished second, continuing his strong form from last week's race in Bahrain. Yuki Tsunoda was forced to retire after an unfortunate collision with Alpine's Pierre Gasly on the opening lap.

Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team's Isack Hadjar scored a point in 10th place, while Liam Lawson collected valuable data in 12th.


Max Verstappen
Max Verstappen 1
Oracle Red Bull Racing
 Overall, it was a very promising race. We were a bit unfortunate with the penalty, but besides that the car was strong. We had a lot of difficulties on Friday with our tyre management, so to have such a positive Saturday and Sunday meant that we really improved the car a lot. I was positively surprised to see how competitive we were on the mediums. I, of course had to try and open up a gap, but to actually pull away from the cars behind was nice. Afterwards on the hards, it took a bit of time before I felt fully comfortable and we were getting a bit of understeer in the car. Despite everything in the race, getting P2 quite close behind Oscar was overall a positive weekend for us. Of course, on tracks with higher degradation we still have more work to do, but we did well today with the set up, the car went well and we had really good race pace. Especially after Bahrain, this was a good weekend to finish off the triple header and we just need to keep working and be as consistent as possible. It really has been a good and positive race and it is promising for the races ahead.

Yuki Tsunoda
Yuki Tsunoda 22
Oracle Red Bull Racing
 It was really unfortunate to be involved in a racing incident so early in the race today. I was fully in control before the incident, Carlos was also right in front of me, and there was just nowhere for me to go as it happened at the tightest corner on this track. I did as much as I could to avoid any incidents, but then I unfortunately had rear wing damage and I couldn’t continue safely in the race. It’s painful to collide with anyone, especially Pierre as we are friends, and this was not ideal for either of us as at the end of the day we are fighting for points and success, and my goal is to achieve as much as possible every weekend. Every lap is very important to me and to learn something and to experience the car more, a shame that something like this happened at an early stage of the race. The positive from the weekend is that I feel like we have made progress, being in Q3 again, and I feel like my confidence is building more and more. Next we have some testing in the RB19 before Miami, and then I am excited to go again with the Team and hopefully have a better result and bring home some points.

Isack Hadjar
Isack Hadjar 6
Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team
It was a solid race from us and I am really happy. We had a good start this time, strategy was good and that was the goal. We were on the alternative strategy with the aim to extend and that is what we did. I didn’t know points were possible, but we had really good pace and we managed to do it. The two Williams were ahead of me after the pit stop and then they played the team game, Alex didn’t make any mistakes and if they were not team mates we could have finished P8. It was definitely tough and I struggled, even though we made a few mistakes it was a well executed race, it’s the racing I want to do. We will go away and find out why our Qualifying pace wasn’t strong, Miami is going to be interesting as it’s a sprint weekend, with only one session before sprint Qualifying, I believe we can do it.

Liam Lawson
Liam Lawson 30
Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team
Today was tough and while we had very good pace throughout the race, we spent the majority of it with traffic no matter what we did. The penalty obviously didn't help and it's a shame as this weekend has been the most comfortable I've felt in the car. We're doing all the right things and it all needs to come together now to get some points. Isack made the most of his clean first stint and it's great for the team to grab another point this weekend. It's very close in the midfield at the moment and we'll try and work on improving this for Miami. It's a track I haven't driven but am excited for. We'll keep pushing.


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