Saudi Arabian GP: Oscar Piastri beats Max Verstappen to win after Red Bull driver's penalty, with Lando Norris fourth
20 April 2025, 12:59 | Updated: 21 April 2025, 09:58
Oscar Piastri leads the Formula 1 world championship for the first time after winning the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix as Max Verstappen's hopes of victory were scuppered by a five-second penalty.
Front-row starters Verstappen and Piastri went wheel-to-wheel into the Jeddah street track's first corner but stewards soon issued the Red Bull driver with the costly time sanction after judging he had unfairly cut the chicane to stay ahead of the faster-starting McLaren driver.
And having remained comfortably within that five-second margin behind Verstappen through the race's first stint, Piastri duly jumped ahead of his Dutch rival when the world champion served the penalty at the sole round of pit stops.
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