00:00I lost the engine, lost the engine.
00:04You're here, that's the end. Thank you, you can jump out.
00:10It's lights out and away we go!
00:12Perez does get away well, comes over to cover off Leclerc.
00:15Carlos Sainz is forced to the outside.
00:17Max Verstappen getting keen on the inside with Carlos Sainz.
00:20But Perez leads him through the first corner.
00:22From Leclerc, Verstappen getting past Carlos Sainz.
00:24Hamilton ahead of the fast starting Williams.
00:26It's Perez now, ahead of Charles Leclerc.
00:28Then comes Max Verstappen, Sainz, Esteban Alcon, George Russell.
00:31And Fernando Alonso and the other Alpine getting detached to the back.
00:35It's Joe Guanyu in the Haas.
00:37And there goes Kevin Magnussen battling away with Pierre Gasly through Turn 8.
00:42That was very close indeed for Sergio Perez.
00:45Job well done, he's got away at the start and he's stretching his lead.
00:50There's Pierre Gasly in the Alfa Tauri ahead of Lando Norris.
00:54Tenth place for him and the two Alpines going for it.
00:57Fernando Alonso almost in the wall.
00:59Certainly in the dust and still behind his teammate Esteban Ocon.
01:04Oh dear. That was late.
01:07Here we go again. He's definitely a lot closer this time.
01:09Is he just going to go for the outside or dummy him?
01:11I wonder why you were grinning.
01:13Here we go. Fernando Alonso gets past Esteban Ocon.
01:16Can he make the move stick? Goes deep into the corner.
01:18Ocon is going to fight this back again, you know, and has to concede as Fernando Alonso just puts the squeeze on him.
01:25Coming out of Turn 2.
01:28And box to overtake. Box to overtake.
01:31So are Red Bull going to respond here?
01:34Out come Ferrari. Out come Red Bull 2.
01:36So Sergio Perez is going to pit and Charles Leclerc.
01:40No, Charles Leclerc is going to carry on.
01:43The Ferrari crew were out, ready, waiting with a set of tyres for him.
01:48Ferrari, maybe, have called the bluff here and have forced Red Bull into an earlier stop than they wanted.
01:55And we've got a yellow flag because we've got a Williams into the barriers.
02:00And for the second day running, that Williams is Nicolas Latifi.
02:04And this could change dramatically, not just his race, but everyone's race.
02:10Because that's going to be a safety car, surely.
02:14So Perez pitting at the most unluckiest time that he could possibly pit.
02:19One lap before the virtual safety car, followed by the safety car, has now gone from leader to third.
02:26And Charles Leclerc inherits the lead of the race by staying out.
02:34He pushed me off. I was ahead.
02:36The Ferrari needs to judge this.
02:38I think I was ahead at the safety car.
02:40OK, you are checking.
02:41And I think hitting the middle of the safety car to push someone off is dangerous.
02:47Charles Leclerc is holding it a bit before he can blast down the main straight.
02:51Carlos Sainz is right behind Sergio Perez.
02:53As down into turn one we go. Leclerc leads Verstappen.
02:56Perez leads Carlos Sainz.
02:58Down the inside goes George Russell on Kevin Magnussen.
03:01Russell's pulled off a brilliant move on the Haas of Kevin Magnussen.
03:05And George Russell makes his way up into fifth place.
03:09Checker, we need to give up the position to Sainz after the restart.
03:11We do the restart.
03:12In comes Valtteri Bottas for a second pit stop in this race.
03:21I wonder what they're going to throw on to Bottas' car.
03:24Oh, that's a slow moving Fernando Alonso.
03:27Is there a problem?
03:28He's looking there as his teammate Esteban Ocon goes past.
03:32I have an issue.
03:33We've got another problem out there and this one is for Daniel Ricciardo.
03:42And I wonder if there's an overheating problem here too.
03:46I got no drive.
03:47OK, copy.
03:48Yeah, I can't accelerate.
03:49Valtteri Bottas is being retired from this race in the Alfa Romeo.
03:56Said he was coming in for a pit stop.
03:59That's the third time he's been into the pit.
04:01And Hamilton might have wanted to come in.
04:04Car slowed down.
04:06I think box box.
04:07Box box.
04:08Ah.
04:09I'm in.
04:10Too late.
04:11Well, it was too late by a few hundred meters.
04:16They say they love this sort of scrap.
04:18Well, let's see who comes out on top.
04:20Verstappen's got DRS.
04:21He's going to try and go around the outside of Charles Leclerc.
04:23He does.
04:24Max Verstappen takes the lead of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
04:28Now, Charles Leclerc is going to have DRS to try and fight it back.
04:32Do you remember when Verstappen did this twice in Bahrain and it didn't pay off?
04:35It might be a third time that Charles Leclerc has proven hanging back is better.
04:40But they're almost going wheel to wheel.
04:42Verstappen moves across and Charles Leclerc goes deep
04:45but holds on to the lead of this race.
04:50Now it's a game of chess.
04:52This is going to be interesting.
04:54Well, he's got DRS again, Verstappen.
04:56Can he stave off his natural instincts as they both look up?
05:00Charles Leclerc goes through ahead.
05:02And they were both looking up in dramatic fashion there.
05:07But Verstappen has come out worse from that final corner.
05:10And even though he's got the DRS,
05:12Charles Leclerc has got a bigger advantage out in front than he did have.
05:16Going into the final hairpin and he stays ahead again.
05:21Verstappen pointless after the first race.
05:23Leclerc is the championship leader.
05:25Verstappen on the inside.
05:26This time is just hanging back a little bit.
05:29Has patience finally found its way into Max Verstappen's vocabulary and vernacular?
05:35And is the patience going to pay off here?
05:38Because Verstappen has got DRS down the main straight.
05:41Charles Leclerc can't cover him off.
05:43Verstappen takes the lead at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
05:47And there are many in the grandstands who like that as Leclerc goes too deep into turn two.
05:52Verstappen leads and it's been building and building.
05:55Can Verstappen now hold off Leclerc?
05:58And now you don't need patience because they're going to be racing to the chequered flag here.
06:04And it's not like Verstappen can come back to Leclerc.
06:07If Leclerc can't get this move done or can get this move done.
06:10Out of the final corner, Max Verstappen emerges in front.
06:14Such a close battle once again.
06:16And this time around it's Max Verstappen that wins out.
06:20He takes victory in the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
06:24And Charles Leclerc comes home in second place.
06:28It's a Ferrari double on the podium as Carlos Sainz manages to take third.
06:33Meanwhile, Lando Norris is having a go into the final hairpin with Esteban Ocon.
06:38Can Ocon, who got out dragged to the line and missed out on the podium here last year, lose another place right at the last?
06:45Ocon just stays ahead of Lando Norris.
06:49But as it is, by half a second, the last classified finisher in the first race of the season is the first driver home here in Saudi Arabia tonight.
06:59Max Verstappen, your winner.
07:01One couple of years.
07:02Pac-Dal Rita.
07:03He will be there.
07:04One couple of years.
07:05One couple of years.
07:06Got an answer for a second.
07:08Set his head up.
07:09Love for a second.
07:10Name this one.
07:11By the way.
07:12Close the family.
07:13The second person.
07:14Newuis hugely.
07:15The second person.
07:16He has a sole leader who loves his team.
07:17Another person.
07:18A single half.
07:19I have a new team.
07:20Is there where he's gone?
07:21The third person.
07:22He has a new team.
07:23Same thing.
07:24The other person.
07:25He'll be there.
07:26The third person.
07:27We'll be there.
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