ROUND 5: 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
FORMULA 1 STC SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX 2025
Circuit stats
- First Grand Prix: 2021
- Number of laps: 50
- Circuit Length: 6.174 km
- Race Distance: 308.45 km
- Lap record: 1:30.734 Lewis Hamilton (2021)
- 2024 winner: Max Verstappen
FORMULA 1 STC SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX 2025
Is it just Max or the Red Bull is fast here, that 5s penalty doesn’t look that threatening to Max’s race.
The 5s penalty does almost nothing for anyone. It’s way too low a penalty for anything. Regardless of how good your car is. It’s only annoying if you got lucky earlier with a car where you’re actually out of position where your car should be.
Commentary here speculated it was probably 5s because of Piastri being partially responsible for pushing Verstappen off, where Lawson took full blame and got 10s.
Sounds like a weird way to reason though, no? That’s what should be called a race incident if they’re both partially at fault.
Stewards and consistency 😅