F1 qualifying

Formula One racing is in Saudi Arabia this weekend for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. The F1 race is scheduled to run on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET, but qualifying ...

1 The final ten minutes feature the 10 remaining cars competing for the fastest time to secure pole position. The first 20 minutes will feature all 20 cars trying to secure the fastest time.

Max Verstappen set the fastest time in FP3 to lead his Red Bull team mate Sergio Perez by over six tenths of a second – and the rest of the field by nearly ...

[Qualifying](https://www.formula1.com/en/racing/2023/Saudi_Arabia.html) is up next at 2000 local time, with Verstappen holding the cards as he seeks his first pole position in Saudi Arabia. [DATA POINTS: What we learned from Friday practice in Saudi Arabia](https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.data-points-what-we-learned-from-friday-practice-in-saudi-arabia.3I1B0cdPzbu65t0eEA3XY9.html) He was the last driver within a second of the Dutchman, as Lance Stroll was 1.024s off the pace in P4. [FP1](https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.fp1-verstappen-heads-perez-as-red-bull-lead-the-way-in-first-practice-at.7HwrQndBJ8d0EmQ2E2PsgU.html) and [FP2](https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.fp2-dominant-verstappen-leads-alonso-at-second-practice-session-in-jeddah-as.6gdyVTKp5ZwrygdbL0nlay.html) on Friday, followed that up with another table-topping performance on Saturday afternoon, having equipped softs to set a lap of 1m 28.485s. Leclerc however has a 10-place grid penalty to contend with. [power unit issue](https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.de-vries-misses-final-practice-in-jeddah-as-alphatauri-carry-out-power-unit.5EDY1Oi6JthoJ87gEBtS5L.html). [READ MORE: ‘It’s definitely not like Bahrain’ – Friday practice pace-setter Verstappen braced for ‘very close’ fight in Saudi Arabia](https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.its-definitely-not-like-bahrain-friday-practice-pace-setter-verstappen.757YBnFWtQlaTwPQQsAM7d.html) Kevin Magnussen took P17 for Haas ahead of Valtteri Bottas, and the AlphaTauris rounded out the timesheets with Yuki Tsunoda 19th on medium compounds and Nyck de Vries 20th having failed to set a time due to a Esteban Ocon took 14th for Alpine, and in 15th and 16th were the two Williams, with Alex Albon ahead of Logan Sargeant. Zhou Guanyu finished a tenth behind Russell as he took 12th for Alfa Romeo, while Nico Hulkenberg was next on the charts in P13 for Haas. Max Verstappen set the fastest time in FP3 to lead his Red Bull team mate Sergio Perez by over six tenths of a second – and the rest of the field by nearly a second – as the championship leader swept all three practice sessions before qualifying in Saudi Arabia. Perez ended up 0.613s off the pace in P2, while Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso was third on the board – albeit 0.998s off the pace of Verstappen.

After dominating the three practice sessions, Max Verstappen is once again the man to beat going into qualifying.

Max Verstappen goes for his second pole position from two attempts in 2023 ahead of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

Sunday's 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix is scheduled to start at 8 p.m. For viewers planning to live stream F1 in 2023, you can watch via the Sky Go app if you're an existing subscriber or you can purchase For fans in Canada, TSN will carry the English-language telecast of races. Elsewhere, Sling TV will also show the action, as too will FuboTV in the US. For Spanish-language viewers, they can find live broadcasts on ESPN Deportes, though ESPNews and ESPNU will also show some practice and qualifying sessions live throughout the year. Sky Sports F1 Time (GMT) GMT / 1 p.m ET / 4 a.m AEDT (Mar 6) / 8 p.m. That's due to the fact that his Ferrari team have had to swap parts in his car following his DNF finish last time out in Bahrain. They need to bounce back after disappointing in Bahrain during the opening race of the season. The action begins in just under five minutes! START OF Q1: Away we go then as the battle for pole position begins in Saudi Arabia.

Formula One racing is headed to Jeddah for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. We'll update qualifying until the full racing grid is set for Sunday's race at ...

1 2 The first 20 minutes will eliminate five drivers and the next 15 minutes will eliminate five more.

Lewis Hamilton will leave Mercedes unless they can give him a winning car soon, Toto Wolff has warned. Speaking ahead of qualifying for this weekend's Saudi ...

He stopped for repairs, but his team were unable to fix the damage to the front-left of his machine, leaving the British driver a lowly 19th. Verstappen’s qualifying was dramatically over and his father Jos removed his headphones despondently at the back of the Red Bull garage. All eyes will be on the front of the race today, though, rather than the back. The McLaren driver exited in Q1 after he banged his McLaren into the wall at the 27th and final bend. The inaugural race in Jeddah two years ago, the penultimate race of that incredible season, saw two red flags, multiple high-speed crashes and three different leaders before Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton eventually won to draw level with Verstappen on 369.5 points. With fewer than seven minutes remaining, his mechanics were unable to resolve the failure in time. It’s a very long season, of course, I would have hoped to start a bit further up the road, but we cannot change that now.” We’ve seen a lot of crazy things, but also we have to stay a little bit realistic,” he said. “I think we so far had a really good weekend, and every time we went on track the car was working really well. That is no easy feat on a high-speed circuit that in its two runnings so far has produced plenty of action. Twenty-four races have passed since Hamilton took the last of his record 103 victories following a monumental scrap with Verstappen here in Jeddah during the final throes of their titanic 2021 title battle. In Bahrain, he crossed the line fifth, a whopping 51 seconds behind winner Verstappen.