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F1 Saudi Arabian GP: FP2 red-flagged for Yuki Tsunoda crash, Lando Norris on high
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F1 Saudi Arabian GP: FP2 red-flagged for Yuki Tsunoda crash, Lando Norris on high

Motorsports April 18, 2025
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McLaren driver Lando Norris topped Free Observe 2 for the System 1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, with Crimson Bull racer Yuki Tsunoda inflicting a crimson flag with an avoidable crash.

With eight minutes left on the clock, Tsunoda planted his RB21 within the exterior wall of the ultimate nook, spelling an early finish to the session because the clocked ticked down, with solely sufficient time left for the same old apply begins.

It was the one main incident of an in any other case easy second apply session through which McLaren reasserted its dominance. Norris had edged out McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri on the ferocious 6.1km Jeddah avenue circuit because the Briton goals to bounce again from a troublesome Bahrain weekend.

Lando Norris, McLaren

Photograph by: Lars Baron – Motorsport Pictures

After surprisingly ceding the highest spot in first apply to Alpine’s Pierre Gasly, Norris and Piastri by no means appeared like something however the quickest two automobiles round Jeddah, with Norris main the early medium runs from his team-mate, by simply 0.001s.

After quarter-hour Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc upped the ante with a 1m29.002s on mediums, with Tsunoda and soft-tyre runner Liam Lawson additionally circulating within the high 5.

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Because the frontrunners switched to softs, world champion Max Verstappen briefly grabbed high spot with a 1m28.547s, however rapidly acquired demoted by Piastri’s 1m28.430s.

Norris responded in sort by beating Piastri’s lap by 0.090s after which additional finessing his greatest effort to a 1m28.267s on the identical set. Verstappen’s second soft-tyre tour was higher than his first however – 0.280s off Norris – nonetheless not sufficient to interrupt up the McLaren hegemony on the entrance.

Ferrari’s Leclerc was fourth, 4 tenths adrift, adopted by Williams man Carlos Sainz and the second Crimson Bull of Tsunoda, who was fourth tenths behind his illustrious team-mate earlier than his crash. Russell, Gasly, a surprisingly fast Nico Hulkenberg and Alex Albon accomplished the highest 10.

As usually on the high-speed and blind twists on the Jeddah Corniche avenue circuit, site visitors was an enormous issue, with each Verstappen and Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton summoned to the stewards for allegedly impeding colleagues. Hamilton ended up in thirteenth after a low-key session.

Earlier than Tsunoda’s off, Andrea Kimi Antonelli clipped the wall popping out of the identical nook, prompting a fast storage name. Gabrial Bortoleto didn’t participate in FP2 after his Sauber crew found a gasoline leak that might not be repaired in time.

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