Red Bull F1’s advantage in Saudi not like Bahrain

Although the Dutchman led the way in both sessions around the Jeddah circuit, he said that the early long-run pace pointed to things being much closer this weekend.

In particular he reckoned the different nature of the track, and especially the fact that it was not so punishing on tyres, allowed Red Bull’s rivals to pose a much bigger threat.

Speaking at the end of the day, Verstappen said: “We had a positive day, but there’s still quite a few things that we…