Max Verstappen took pole for Formula 1's 2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, ahead of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and Sergio Perez in the second Red Bull.
Verstappen produced a 1m27.472s on his first run in Q3 but did not improve on his second attempt so that stood as the time to beat. Leclerc had only been fourth a massive 0.8s down after the first runs, where he had tried an additional warm-up tour to cure a handling problem he was suddenly feeling with new softs. On his second attempt with just a single warm-up effort, he cut Verstappen's advantage to 0.
Bottas was left fuming at traffic issues late in Q1, with his engineer claiming he was 0.1s up on his personal best in sector one on his last lap, after the Finn was eliminated by 0.072s behind Albon. This time they ended up off the back row, where Logan Sargeant and Zhou Guanyu will start for Williams and Sauber – the former setting a personal best that was not good enough to progress well ahead of the chequered flag falling.
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