Motorsports
Saudi Arabia Formula 1 GP: Perez wins in Jeddah, Verstappen second with a terrible race
Sergio Perez was the winner of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, while Verstappen ended up behind him despite starting 15th. Third is Alonso, who celebrated the 100th podium of his career.
Red Bull’s superiority at the beginning of the year was also confirmed in Saudi Arabia. Sergio Perez was the one who saw the checkered flag for the first time in Jeddah.
Behind him was Max Verstappen, the Dutchman finished second although he started from 15th place. On the podium for the second consecutive race was Fernando Alonso, with the FIA recovering his original penalty and celebrating his 100th podium of his career.
The race: Fernando Alonso passed Sergio Perez at the start to stay four laps ahead of the Mexican, who reclaimed the lead on his fastest RB19 when DRS was on.
Behind Russell, who finished third in the Mercedes W14, Lance Stroll in the Aston Martin managed to overtake Carlos Sainz and the Ferrari SF-23 for fourth place. It stayed in the top five for the next ten laps, with Stroll making his first pit stop ahead of everyone else, covered by Saint’s undercut.
Meanwhile, Leclerc and Verstappen – with Stroll’s pit entrance – had moved up from 12th and 15th to 5th and 6th respectively. On lap 16, Ferrari asked Sainz to change tires to cover for Stroll, which he did, and a lap later Leclerc – now under threat from Verstappen.
But seconds later, a mechanical problem in Lance Stroll’s Aston Martin AMR23 forced the Canadian to pull over the track and bring out the safety car. Ferrari were extremely unlucky with the timing of their pit stops as everyone in front of them used the safety car to make their own pit stops.
Saints and Leclerc fell behind the Red Bulls, Alonso’s Aston Martin and the Mercedes and after the race restarted – when the safety car broke out – they were no longer able to keep up with the latter’s pace.
From fourth, Verstappen had no trouble overtaking the slower Mercedes of Russell and Alonso’s Aston Martin to move into second place – some 5 minutes behind leader Perez.
At the time it looked like the Dutchman had his sights set on victory given his superior speed over Perez over the past two weeks. But the Mexican didn’t make the slightest mistake, maintained a constantly furious pace and never let his distance to Max fall below 4” until the checkered flag.
Meanwhile, further back, Hamilton risked running on the medium tire by pitting under the safety car – unlike the other front runners who opted for the hard. This allowed the seven-time champion to pass Saint and get close to his counterpart Russell.
However, Russell’s defense and Hamilton’s attack didn’t result in awkward developments for Mercedes, until now Lewis reduced his pace to protect his softer tires and ensure he made it to the finish.
At the same time, Alonso managed to increase his safety margin on Russell, marginally increasing over 5” until the end, to protect himself from the looming possibility of a new penalty related to the execution of the first over by the team of, at the pit stop of the Spaniard.
But the marshals saw things differently: they issued a 10-minute penalty to Aston Martin and Alonso after the podium ceremony because one of the mechanics interfered with the AMR23 before the Spaniard’s 5-minute penalty was up. As a result, the Spaniard dropped to 4th place (as he was 11” behind fifth-placed Hamilton) and Russell officially took third place on the podium with hindsight.
Further back, Saith and Leclerc in the two Ferraris fought a lonely battle in 6th and 7th place and could not threaten Hamilton – although they remained 4” to the Englishman. Aside from the unfortunate timing of their pit stops, the Scuderia were disappointing tonight as they had the worst lap pace of the top four teams.
And that even on a track with much less rough asphalt than Bahrain, which puts much less stress on the tyres. And also on a track with very long straights and many fast corners, which Ferrari claims to have improved significantly this year with the SF-23.
Alpine was the leading team in the battle for middle power as Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly had their hands on a much more efficient A523 than in Bahrain and finished 8-9 ahead of Haas’ Kevin Magnussen who made a nice pass towards the end Alpha scoring Tauris Yuki Tsunoda rounds out the top ten.
It’s worth noting that Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas unexpectedly found himself at the bottom of the leaderboard behind McLaren’s Lando Norris. In fact, the England team found themselves in a difficult position as debutant Oscar Piastri threatened Norris in the final laps and managed to pass him before moving up to 15th by also passing Logan Sargeants Williams.
After the first two Formula One GPs of the year in Arabia, Bahrain and tonight in Jeddah, the sport heads east for its third round of the year, the Australian GP on April 2nd.
Source: sport 24
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Match lineup
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16
20
44
13
61
66
32
10
18
19
1
2
3
6
14
28
8
4
9
10
16
Olimpico Grande Torino
Elia Capril1
79 minutes
Marco Palestra2
66 minutes
Riad Idrissi3
Sebastiano Ruperto6
Alessandro Deiola14
Gabriele Zappa28
79 minutes
michael adpo8
75 minutes
Luca Mazzitelli4
71 minutes
27 minutes
35 minutes
Cicada cicada9
65 minutes
71 minutes
Gianluca Gaetano10
67 minutes
66 minutes
Mateo Prati16
44 minutes
83 minutes
substitute
Giuseppe Ciocchitwenty four
Boris Radunovich31
Alessandro di Pardo18
Nicola Pintustwenty three
66 minutes
91 minutes
adam overt33
83 minutes
andrea cogoni39
marco log20
79 minutes
Nicolo Cavuotitwenty one
71 minutes
Gennaro Borrelli29
71 minutes
leonardo pavoletti30
79 minutes
93 minutes
Yael Trepey37
75 minutes
sebastian esposito94
67 minutes
66 minutes
coach
Marco Baroni
Fabio Pisacan
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Turin – Cagliari | Series A
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Motorsports
A king was born on Boxing Day: Amorim’s United fielded four defenders for the first time
There was only one Premier League game, held on Friday December 26th, the traditional Boxing Day, but it was a very good match for Manchester United fans who have experienced so much disappointment of late. A 1-0 win against Newcastle was a relief for the Old Trafford side.
But it was more than that. Ruben Amorim, unwilling to change his philosophy despite his poor results, played with four players in defense for the first time at United.
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Source: Mundo Deportivo
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Match lineup
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27
14
16
39
5
10
twenty two
9
7
17
43
65
26
5
15
2
8
27
10
20
44
Ennio Tardini
85 minutes
David de Gea43
Fabiano Parisi65
75 minutes
Mattia Viti26
45 minutes
93 minutes
Marine Pongrac5
92 minutes
19 minutes
Pietro Comuzzo15
85 minutes
dodo2
80 minutes
Rolando Mandragora8
21 minutes
62 minutes
47 minutes
Cher N’Dour27
75 minutes
93 minutes
Albert Gudamson10
67 minutes
Moise Keene20
67 minutes
Nicolo Fagioli44
substitute
Luca Rezzellini1
Tommaso Martinelli30
robin gosenstwenty one
75 minutes
Eman Cospotwenty three
Niccolo Fortini29
45 minutes
eddie quadio60
85 minutes
67 minutes
Simon Soum7
75 minutes
67 minutes
hans nicorossi caviglia14
Edin Dzeko9
80 minutes
Roberto Piccoli91
62 minutes
93 minutes
Christian Kouame99
93 minutes
coach
carlos cuesta
Paolo Vanoli
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Parma – Fiorentina | Series A
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