Round 21 · 2021

Saudi Arabian Grand Prix

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia3–5 Dec

Practice 1
Fri 13:30
Data published
track 34° ·air 28° ·69% hum ·1.1 km/h wind
Practice 2
Fri 17:00
Data published
track 31° ·air 29° ·61% hum ·1.1 km/h wind
Practice 3
Sat 14:00
Data published
track 34° ·air 29° ·65% hum ·1.1 km/h wind
Qualifying
Sat 17:00
Data published
track 31° ·air 28° ·72% hum ·2.2 km/h wind
Fantasy lock
Grand Prix
Sun 17:30
Data published
track 32° ·air 29° ·76% hum ·1.1 km/h wind

Times in UTC

Grand Prix result

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Moved	Time / gap	Pts
1	HAM	Mercedes	1	—	2:06:15.118	26
2	VER	Red Bull Racing	3	1	+11.825	18
3	BOT	Mercedes	2	1	+27.531	15
4	OCO	Alpine	9	5	+27.633	12
5	RIC	McLaren	11	6	+40.121	10
6	GAS	AlphaTauri	6	—	+41.613	8
7	LEC	Ferrari	4	3	+44.475	6
8	SAI	Ferrari	15	7	+46.606	4
9	GIO	Alfa Romeo Racing	10	1	+58.505	2
10	NOR	McLaren	7	3	+61.358	1
11	STR	Aston Martin	18	7	+77.212
12	LAT	Williams	16	4	+83.249
13	ALO	Alpine	13	—	+1 Lap
14	TSU	AlphaTauri	8	6	+1 Lap
15	RAI	Alfa Romeo Racing	12	3	+1 Lap
16	VET	Aston Martin	17	1	Collision damage
17	PER	Red Bull Racing	5	12	Collision
18	MAZ	Haas F1 Team	20	2	Collision
19	RUS	Williams	14	5	Collision
20	MSC	Haas F1 Team	19	1	Accident

Qualifying

Pos	Driver	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap to pole
1	HAM	1:28.466	1:27.712	1:27.511
2	BOT	1:28.057	1:28.054	1:27.622	+0.111
3	VER	1:28.285	1:27.953	1:27.653	+0.142
4	LEC	1:28.310	1:28.459	1:28.054	+0.543
5	PER	1:28.021	1:27.946	1:28.123	+0.612
6	GAS	1:28.401	1:28.314	1:28.125	+0.614
7	NOR	1:28.338	1:28.344	1:28.180	+0.669
8	TSU	1:28.503	1:28.222	1:28.442	+0.931
9	OCO	1:28.752	1:28.574	1:28.647	+1.136
10	GIO	1:28.899	1:28.616	1:28.754	+1.243
11	RIC	1:28.216	1:28.668	—	+1.157
12	RAI	1:28.856	1:28.885	—	+1.374
13	ALO	1:28.944	1:28.920	—	+1.409
14	RUS	1:28.926	1:29.054	—	+1.543
15	SAI	1:28.237	1:53.652	—	+26.141
16	LAT	1:29.177	—	—	+1.666
17	VET	1:29.198	—	—	+1.687
18	STR	1:29.368	—	—	+1.857
19	MSC	1:29.464	—	—	+1.953
20	MAZ	1:30.473	—	—	+2.962

How the weekend has moved

Practice 11:29.786run 1:35.112

Practice 21:29.018−0.768run 1:35.590

Practice 31:28.100−0.918

Qualifying1:27.511−0.589

Grand Prix1:30.734+3.223run 1:34.668

Fastest lap of each session, the change from the session before, and the midfield's median fuel-corrected long run. Times normally tumble as the track rubbers in.

Practice 1

Fri 3 Dec, 13:30 UTCFastestHAM1:29.786

Single-lap pace

HAM1:29.786—21 laps

VER1:29.842+0.05623 laps

BOT1:30.009+0.22324 laps

GAS1:30.263+0.47728 laps

GIO1:30.318+0.53227 laps

SAI1:30.564+0.77826 laps

LEC1:30.600+0.81426 laps

RIC1:30.608+0.82225 laps

ALO1:30.842+1.05627 laps

VET1:30.886+1.10025 laps

PER1:30.960+1.17427 laps

OCO1:31.023+1.23729 laps

NOR1:31.029+1.24323 laps

STR1:31.044+1.25825 laps

TSU1:31.099+1.31326 laps

RAI1:31.296+1.51026 laps

RUS1:31.343+1.55728 laps

MSC1:31.525+1.73924 laps

LAT1:31.821+2.03527 laps

MAZ1:33.464+3.67823 laps

Best lap regardless of fuel load or compound — a sighting shot, not a form guide.

Long runs, fuel-corrected

Driver	Tyre	Laps	Fuel-corrected	Gap	Spread	Deg / lap
GAS	S	5*	1:32.433	—	±0.878	—
ALO	S	7*	1:34.444	+2.011	±1.288	—
MSC	M	5*	1:35.112	+2.679	±0.880	—
LAT	H	5*	1:36.147	+3.714	±0.879	—
MAZ	H	5*	1:37.487	+5.054	±1.303	—

Each driver's longest clean stint, using green-flag laps only. Cool-down laps go first (anything more than 7% slower than that stint's best), then laps sitting well above the stint's own trend — traffic and mistakes — and a stint is discarded entirely if what remains isn't one continuous run. Times are corrected for fuel burn at 60 ms per lap, measured from 2024 race stints rather than assumed. Runs under eight laps (marked *) get no degradation figure, because a trend through so few laps is noise. Teams don't publish fuel loads, and 15 kg is worth about 0.4s a lap, so read these as driver groupings rather than exact gaps, and compare runs on the same compound.

Sectors and the lap they could have done

Driver	S1	S2	S3	Ideal lap	Best lap	Left out
VER	32.765	28.742	28.189	1:29.696	1:29.842	0.146
HAM	32.907	28.660	28.219	1:29.786	1:29.786	0.000
BOT	32.812	28.791	28.371	1:29.974	1:30.009	0.035
GAS	32.945	28.789	28.497	1:30.231	1:30.263	0.032
GIO	32.962	28.879	28.477	1:30.318	1:30.318	0.000
LEC	32.932	29.028	28.518	1:30.478	1:30.600	0.122
RIC	33.025	28.936	28.556	1:30.517	1:30.608	0.091
SAI	32.884	29.085	28.595	1:30.564	1:30.564	0.000
ALO	33.268	29.011	28.563	1:30.842	1:30.842	0.000
PER	33.053	29.203	28.598	1:30.854	1:30.960	0.106
NOR	33.253	29.043	28.571	1:30.867	1:31.029	0.162
VET	33.299	29.088	28.499	1:30.886	1:30.886	0.000
OCO	33.132	29.195	28.647	1:30.974	1:31.023	0.049
STR	33.324	28.929	28.791	1:31.044	1:31.044	0.000
TSU	33.215	29.071	28.777	1:31.063	1:31.099	0.036
RAI	33.327	29.193	28.776	1:31.296	1:31.296	0.000
RUS	33.497	29.028	28.818	1:31.343	1:31.343	0.000
MSC	33.566	29.229	28.702	1:31.497	1:31.525	0.028
LAT	33.680	29.200	28.803	1:31.683	1:31.821	0.138
MAZ	34.468	29.695	29.154	1:33.317	1:33.464	0.147

Best sector times are usually set on different laps, so their sum — the ideal lap — is quicker than anyone's actual best. The last column is the time left out there. Purple marks the session's fastest sector.

What the tyres are worth here

SSoft — referenceM+1.039(3 drivers ran both)H+0.430(9 drivers ran both)

Measured within each driver — only drivers who set a representative time on both compounds count — then averaged, so this isn't distorted by who happened to run which tyre. A lap counts only if it is within 2% of that driver's own best of the session, which keeps genuine runs on a slower tyre while dropping in-laps and aborted runs that would otherwise masquerade as a compound's best. A compound fewer than three drivers tried is listed but not priced. Even so, these laps aren't all qualifying simulations, so read this as the order of the compounds rather than an exact price.

Team-mates, head to head

MercedesHAMahead of BOT+0.223

Red Bull RacingVERahead of PER+1.118

AlphaTauriGASahead of TSU+0.836

Alfa Romeo RacingGIOahead of RAI+0.978

FerrariSAIahead of LEC+0.036

McLarenRICahead of NOR+0.421

AlpineALOahead of OCO+0.181

Aston MartinVETahead of STR+0.158

WilliamsRUSahead of LAT+0.478

Haas F1 TeamMSCahead of MAZ+1.939

Same car, so the gap on their best lap is the clearest read on the driver available.

Stints and compounds

HAM10236

VER75326

BOT9717

GAS12358

GIO10197

SAI10187

LEC111635

RIC9835

ALO11313

VET1168

PER123363

OCO16157

NOR5567

STR1096

TSU1178

RAI10106

RUS11818

MSC1086

LAT97119

MAZ1274

SSoftMMediumHHard

Practice 2

Fri 3 Dec, 17:00 UTCFastestHAM1:29.018

Single-lap pace

HAM1:29.018—22 laps

BOT1:29.079+0.06123 laps

GAS1:29.099+0.08122 laps

VER1:29.213+0.19520 laps

ALO1:29.441+0.42321 laps

OCO1:29.555+0.53721 laps

SAI1:29.589+0.57123 laps

TSU1:29.597+0.57920 laps

PER1:29.768+0.75021 laps

LEC1:29.772+0.75423 laps

RIC1:29.968+0.95022 laps

NOR1:30.004+0.98618 laps

GIO1:30.110+1.09222 laps

RAI1:30.276+1.25824 laps

STR1:30.442+1.42422 laps

VET1:30.502+1.48421 laps

RUS1:30.506+1.48824 laps

MSC1:30.652+1.63419 laps

LAT1:31.039+2.02123 laps

MAZ1:31.629+2.61120 laps

Best lap regardless of fuel load or compound — a sighting shot, not a form guide.

Long runs, fuel-corrected

Driver	Tyre	Laps	Fuel-corrected	Gap	Spread	Deg / lap
HAM	M	5*	1:34.137	—	±0.228	—
RUS	H	6*	1:35.056	+0.919	±0.214	—
VET	S	5*	1:35.583	+1.446	±0.503	—
ALO	S	6*	1:35.590	+1.453	±0.566	—
STR	M	6*	1:35.906	+1.769	±0.248	—
LAT	M	5*	1:36.090	+1.953	±0.403	—
MSC	H	6*	1:36.153	+2.016	±0.734	—

Sectors and the lap they could have done

Driver	S1	S2	S3	Ideal lap	Best lap	Left out
HAM	32.624	28.438	27.956	1:29.018	1:29.018	0.000
BOT	32.747	28.389	27.892	1:29.028	1:29.079	0.051
VER	32.550	28.547	27.990	1:29.087	1:29.213	0.126
GAS	32.419	28.463	28.217	1:29.099	1:29.099	0.000
SAI	32.488	28.806	28.137	1:29.431	1:29.589	0.158
ALO	32.540	28.665	28.236	1:29.441	1:29.441	0.000
TSU	32.690	28.608	28.211	1:29.509	1:29.597	0.088
OCO	32.689	28.612	28.254	1:29.555	1:29.555	0.000
LEC	32.706	28.730	28.154	1:29.590	1:29.772	0.182
PER	32.742	28.747	28.225	1:29.714	1:29.768	0.054
NOR	32.755	28.877	28.260	1:29.892	1:30.004	0.112
RIC	33.018	28.765	28.185	1:29.968	1:29.968	0.000
GIO	32.875	28.866	28.337	1:30.078	1:30.110	0.032
RUS	32.871	28.835	28.449	1:30.155	1:30.506	0.351
RAI	32.955	28.951	28.311	1:30.217	1:30.276	0.059
VET	33.005	28.875	28.438	1:30.318	1:30.502	0.184
STR	32.977	28.902	28.457	1:30.336	1:30.442	0.106
MSC	33.175	29.013	28.464	1:30.652	1:30.652	0.000
LAT	33.414	29.115	28.436	1:30.965	1:31.039	0.074
MAZ	33.746	29.160	28.702	1:31.608	1:31.629	0.021

What the tyres are worth here

SSoft — referenceM+0.241(12 drivers ran both)H+0.588(6 drivers ran both)

Team-mates, head to head

MercedesHAMahead of BOT+0.061

AlphaTauriGASahead of TSU+0.498

Red Bull RacingVERahead of PER+0.555

AlpineALOahead of OCO+0.114

FerrariSAIahead of LEC+0.183

McLarenRICahead of NOR+0.036

Alfa Romeo RacingGIOahead of RAI+0.166

Aston MartinSTRahead of VET+0.060

WilliamsRUSahead of LAT+0.533

Haas F1 TeamMSCahead of MAZ+0.977

Same car, so the gap on their best lap is the clearest read on the driver available.

Stints and compounds

HAM6358

BOT986

GAS83533

VER875

ALO759

OCO5376

SAI91445

TSU8246

PER975

LEC91436

RIC9427

NOR5562

GIO976

RAI9924

STR7510

VET768

RUS6729

MSC568

LAT7718

MAZ5762

SSoftMMediumHHard

Practice 3

Sat 4 Dec, 14:00 UTCFastestVER1:28.100

Single-lap pace

VER1:28.100—20 laps

HAM1:28.314+0.21423 laps

PER1:28.629+0.52921 laps

TSU1:28.641+0.54120 laps

GAS1:28.715+0.61522 laps

BOT1:29.019+0.91919 laps

LEC1:29.101+1.00122 laps

SAI1:29.149+1.04919 laps

OCO1:29.177+1.07719 laps

NOR1:29.300+1.20018 laps

ALO1:29.418+1.31821 laps

GIO1:29.590+1.49020 laps

RAI1:29.689+1.58924 laps

RIC1:29.717+1.61719 laps

STR1:30.030+1.93014 laps

RUS1:30.034+1.93417 laps

VET1:30.296+2.19615 laps

LAT1:30.366+2.26617 laps

MSC1:30.933+2.83320 laps

MAZ1:30.979+2.87923 laps

Best lap regardless of fuel load or compound — a sighting shot, not a form guide.

Sectors and the lap they could have done

Driver	S1	S2	S3	Ideal lap	Best lap	Left out
VER	31.982	28.257	27.793	1:28.032	1:28.100	0.068
HAM	32.237	28.091	27.814	1:28.142	1:28.314	0.172
PER	32.221	28.271	28.077	1:28.569	1:28.629	0.060
GAS	32.259	28.372	27.983	1:28.614	1:28.715	0.101
TSU	32.129	28.421	28.091	1:28.641	1:28.641	0.000
BOT	32.383	28.434	28.115	1:28.932	1:29.019	0.087
LEC	32.326	28.516	28.103	1:28.945	1:29.101	0.156
SAI	32.339	28.573	28.095	1:29.007	1:29.149	0.142
NOR	32.382	28.545	28.164	1:29.091	1:29.300	0.209
OCO	32.378	28.474	28.290	1:29.142	1:29.177	0.035
ALO	32.512	28.559	28.258	1:29.329	1:29.418	0.089
GIO	32.599	28.638	28.320	1:29.557	1:29.590	0.033
RAI	32.546	28.675	28.354	1:29.575	1:29.689	0.114
RIC	32.596	28.708	28.329	1:29.633	1:29.717	0.084
RUS	32.748	28.700	28.508	1:29.956	1:30.034	0.078
STR	32.702	29.004	28.324	1:30.030	1:30.030	0.000
VET	32.881	28.841	28.476	1:30.198	1:30.296	0.098
LAT	32.790	28.905	28.582	1:30.277	1:30.366	0.089
MSC	33.211	29.075	28.647	1:30.933	1:30.933	0.000
MAZ	33.179	29.044	28.756	1:30.979	1:30.979	0.000

What the tyres are worth here

SSoft — referenceM+0.139(3 drivers ran both)H+0.257(3 drivers ran both)

Team-mates, head to head

Red Bull RacingVERahead of PER+0.529

MercedesHAMahead of BOT+0.705

AlphaTauriTSUahead of GAS+0.074

FerrariLECahead of SAI+0.048

AlpineOCOahead of ALO+0.241

McLarenNORahead of RIC+0.417

Alfa Romeo RacingGIOahead of RAI+0.099

Aston MartinSTRahead of VET+0.266

WilliamsRUSahead of LAT+0.332

Haas F1 TeamMSCahead of MAZ+0.046

Same car, so the gap on their best lap is the clearest read on the driver available.

Stints and compounds

VER10163

HAM9383

PER91713

TSU91613

GAS916114

BOT910

LEC631354

SAI81334

OCO8353

NOR71613

ALO75153

GIO8183

RAI75741

RIC8110

STR1553

RUS773

VET15135

LAT7253

MSC11333

MAZ12173

SSoftMMediumHHard