2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix

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2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix
Race 21 of 22 [1] in the 2021 Formula One World Championship
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Jeddah Street Circuit 2021.svg
The circuit layout
Race details
Date5 December 2021
Official name Formula 1 STC Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2021
Location Jeddah Corniche Circuit, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Course Street circuit
Course length 6.174 km (3.836 miles)
Distance 50 laps, 308.450 km (191.662 miles)
Weather Clear
Attendance 143,000 [2]
Pole position
Driver
 Mercedes
Time 1:27.511
Fastest lap
Driver Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
Time 1:30.734 on lap 47 (lap record)
Podium
First
 Mercedes
Second
 Red Bull Racing-Honda
Third
 Mercedes
Lap leaders
  • 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix

The 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 STC Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2021) was a Formula One motor race, held on 5 December 2021 at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit, in Saudi Arabia. The inaugural Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, it was the 21st round of the 2021 Formula One World Championship.

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Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton won the race ahead of Red Bull driver Max Verstappen, while Mercedes's Valtteri Bottas edged out Alpine's Esteban Ocon for third by 0.102 seconds. This was Hamilton's last win until the 2024 British Grand Prix and his last pole position until the 2023 Hungarian Grand Prix.

Background

The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was announced to be on the 2021 Formula One World Championship calendar in November 2020. [3] The race was originally to take place on 28 November, but it was rescheduled due to the postponement of the Australian Grand Prix owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. [lower-alpha 1] [4]

On 28 November, one week before the race, Williams co-founder and former owner Sir Frank Williams died at the age of 79. [5] Teams sported tributes on their cars, [6] and a minute's silence took place approximately one hour before the start of the race. [7] On Sunday, former Williams driver Damon Hill did a lap of honour in the FW07, Williams's first championship winning car. [8] Alpine ran a special livery for the weekend to commemorate their 100th race with one of their sponsors Castrol. [9] On the eve of the race weekend, Williams CEO Jost Capito announced that he was tested positive for coronavirus, therefore missing the weekend with the team. [10]

Championship standings before the race

Max Verstappen was the Drivers' Championship leader with 8 points separating him and Lewis Hamilton, with 351.5 points and 343.5 points respectively. In the Constructors' Championship, Mercedes led Red Bull Racing by 5 points. Behind them, Ferrari in 3rd place led McLaren by 39.5 points. [11]

Entrants

The drivers and teams were the same as the season entry list with no additional stand-in drivers for the race or practice. [12]

This race was the last Formula One race start for Nikita Mazepin, who withdrew from the final race of the season due to a positive COVID-19 test, and was replaced ahead of the 2022 season, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [13]

Tyre choices

Sole tyre supplier Pirelli allocated the C2, C3, and C4 compounds of tyre to be used during this Grand Prix weekend. [14]

Practice

There were three practice sessions, each scheduled for one hour. The first two practice sessions took place on Friday 3 December at 16:30 and 20:00 local time (UTC+03:00) and the third practice session took place at 17:00 on 4 December. [15]

Qualifying

Qualifying took place on 4 December at 20:00 local time and lasted for one hour. [15] Qualifying began with Sergio Pérez taking top spot of the first segment of qualifying (Q1) with a time of 1.28.021. The second segment (Q2) ended with Lewis Hamilton taking the top spot with a time of 1.27.712. Hamilton set this time on 8 lap old medium tyres giving him a strong tyre disadvantage for the race (when drivers in the top 10 have to start on the tyre with which they set their fastest Q2 time) compared to his title rival Max Verstappen who had 4 lap old medium tyres. [16]

All cars who made it through Q2, qualified on the medium tyres apart from Lando Norris who ran the soft tyres. Carlos Sainz Jr. struggled with his Ferrari after spinning at turn 10 and brushing the wall with his rear wing, causing minor damage. On his final run in Q2, he had another loss of control, declaring the car was "undrivable" [17] and being forced to back out of the attempt. [16] Q3 began with Hamilton having a slide and aborting his opening attempt. Hamilton then set his pole lap of a 1.27.511. Max Verstappen was on his flying lap at the end of the session, setting the fastest time of the session in the first two sectors, whilst almost clipping the wall at the exit of turn 2. Coming into the final corner, he locked his front left tyre and after going wide and applying the throttle he lost control of the rear and hit the wall causing his suspension to break. This gave Hamilton pole, ahead of Valtteri Bottas and Verstappen. [16]

Qualifying classification

Pos.No.DriverConstructorQualifying timesFinal
grid
Q1Q2Q3
144 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:28.4661:27.7121:27.5111
277 Flag of Finland.svg Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 1:28.0671:28.0541:27.6222
333 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-Honda 1:28.2851:27.9531:27.6533
416 Flag of Monaco.svg Charles Leclerc Ferrari 1:28.3101:28.4591:28.0544
511 Flag of Mexico.svg Sergio Pérez Red Bull Racing-Honda 1:28.0211:27.9461:28.1235
610 Flag of France.svg Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri-Honda 1:28.4011:28.3141:28.1256
74 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Lando Norris McLaren-Mercedes 1:28.3381:28.3441:28.1807
822 Flag of Japan.svg Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri-Honda 1:28.5031:28.2221:28.4428
931 Flag of France.svg Esteban Ocon Alpine-Renault 1:28.7521:28.5641:28.6479
1099 Flag of Italy.svg Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari 1:28.8891:28.6161:28.75410
113 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Daniel Ricciardo McLaren-Mercedes 1:28.2161:28.668N/A11
127 Flag of Finland.svg Kimi Räikkönen Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari 1:28.8561:28.885N/A12
1314 Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Alonso Alpine-Renault 1:28.9441:28.920N/A13
1463 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg George Russell Williams-Mercedes 1:28.9261:29.054N/A14
1555 Flag of Spain.svg Carlos Sainz Jr. Ferrari 1:28.2361:53.652N/A15
166 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Nicholas Latifi Williams-Mercedes 1:29.177N/AN/A16
175 Flag of Germany.svg Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin-Mercedes 1:29.198N/AN/A17
1818 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Lance Stroll Aston Martin-Mercedes 1:29.368N/AN/A18
1947 Flag of Germany.svg Mick Schumacher Haas-Ferrari 1:29.464N/AN/A19
209 Russian Automobile Federation flag.svg   Nikita Mazepin [lower-alpha 2] Haas-Ferrari 1:30.473N/AN/A20
107% time: 1:34.182
Source: [19] [20]

Race

The race started at 20:30 local time on 5 December and lasted for 50 laps. [15] The race was interrupted with incidents that resulted in one safety car period, two red flags, and four virtual safety car periods. [21] On lap 10, Mick Schumacher lost control of his Haas and smashed into the barriers. This caused the safety car to be deployed, and both of the Mercedes to pit, demoting them to second and third. The race was then red flagged, which meant that Max Verstappen could change tyres and would lead the race.

After the first standing restart, Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton were involved in an incident where Verstappen overtook Hamilton off the race track, shortly before a crash involving Sergio Pérez, Charles Leclerc, Nikita Mazepin, and George Russell resulted in a second red flag period. This left the cars lined up with Verstappen in first, Esteban Ocon in second, and Hamilton in third. Initially, race director Michael Masi offered to re-order the cars with Verstappen and Ocon switching places but was later amended to offer to move Hamilton to second and Verstappen to third, which left the proposed order as Ocon, Hamilton, and Verstappen. This was proposed in lieu of an investigation into Verstappen overtaking Hamilton at the first standing restart, and was only offered to Red Bull Racing and not put to the other two teams involved in the changing on the restart order, Alpine (Ocon's team) and Mercedes (Hamilton's team). [22]

On lap 37, Verstappen made an illegal overtake on Hamilton. Verstappen was told to let Hamilton past by the stewards. He decided to slow down to a crawl before the upcoming DRS (drag reduction system) detection point, in order for Verstappen to be able to activate DRS and be back on the attack right away. Hamilton was not warned that Verstappen would let him pass and was surprised by Verstappen's sudden dramatic drop in speed, and failed to avoid running into the back of Verstappen, damaging Hamilton's front wing endplate and Verstappen's diffuser. Following the race, the stewards gave Verstappen a 10 second time penalty for the incident, which did not affect his second place, and gave two penalty points on Verstappen's super license.

On the last lap, Esteban Ocon was overtaken by Valtteri Bottas for third place.

Post-race

As both Hamilton and Verstappen had collided together for the third race in the season, Hamilton heavily criticised Verstappen in the post-race interviews, accusing his title rival for being "over the limit" in both his driving and title defense. [23] Verstappen meanwhile hit out at the sport following the incident and the post-race penalties applied to him, claiming F1 is "more about penalties than racing". [24]

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner compared the actions of race director Masi to "like being at the local market", [25] and added: "It felt like today the sport missed [Masi's predecessor] Charlie Whiting." [26] Formula One chief Ross Brawn said that Masi dealt with the situation in a pragmatic way. [27] Masi commented: "I wouldn't call it a deal, as from a race director's perspective I have no authority to instruct the teams to do anything in that situation. I can give them an offer, [I have] the ability to do that but the choice is theirs. The stewards are obviously empowered to give penalties, but I can give them my perspective. That's why I offered them the ability to give that position up." [28]

Russell, who retired as a result of the accident at the first restart and is also the director of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association, called for changes to be made to the track for safety. [29] Norris, who was initially running in the points but dropped out during the red flag periods before recovering to 10th, meanwhile slammed the red flag tyre change rules, calling for the "unfair" rule to be changed and cited previous races where he ended up in similar situations. [30]

Race classification

Pos.No.DriverConstructorLapsTime/RetiredGridPoints
144 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 502:06:15.185126 1
233 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-Honda 50+21.825 2 318
377 Flag of Finland.svg Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 50+27.531215
431 Flag of France.svg Esteban Ocon Alpine-Renault 50+27.633912
53 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Daniel Ricciardo McLaren-Mercedes 50+40.1211110
610 Flag of France.svg Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri-Honda 50+41.61368
716 Flag of Monaco.svg Charles Leclerc Ferrari 50+44.47546
855 Flag of Spain.svg Carlos Sainz Jr. Ferrari 50+46.606154
999 Flag of Italy.svg Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari 50+58.505102
104 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Lando Norris McLaren-Mercedes 50+1:01.35871
1118 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Lance Stroll Aston Martin-Mercedes 50+1:17.21218
126 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Nicholas Latifi Williams-Mercedes 50+1:23.24916
1314 Flag of Spain.svg Fernando Alonso Alpine-Renault 49+1 lap13
1422 Flag of Japan.svg Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri-Honda 49+1 lap 3 8
157 Flag of Finland.svg Kimi Räikkönen Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari 49+1 lap12
Ret5 Flag of Germany.svg Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin-Mercedes 44Collision damage17
Ret11 Flag of Mexico.svg Sergio Pérez Red Bull Racing-Honda 14Collision5
Ret9 Russian Automobile Federation flag.svg   Nikita Mazepin [lower-alpha 2] Haas-Ferrari 14Collision20
Ret63 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg George Russell Williams-Mercedes 14Collision14
Ret47 Flag of Germany.svg Mick Schumacher Haas-Ferrari 8Accident19
Fastest lap: Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) – 1:30.734 (lap 47)
Source: [20] [31] [32]

Notes

Championship standings after the race

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The Australian Grand Prix was eventually cancelled
  2. 1 2 Nikita Mazepin is Russian, but he competed as a neutral competitor using the designation RAF (Russian Automobile Federation), as the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a ban on Russia competing at World Championships. The ban was implemented by the World Anti-Doping Agency in response to the state-sponsored doping program of Russian athletes. [18]

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