Leclerc and Verstappen fought out an enjoyable duel on the streets of Jeddah, with Leclerc leading for long spells of the night race but with Verstappen hounding him and remaining within striking distance.
In the last couple of laps, Verstappen’s straight-line speed advantage in the Red Bull finally proved too much for Leclerc, the Dutchman making the racing-winning move with four laps to go into Turn 1.
After the race, Leclerc said he and his Ferrari team “did everything right” in the race, which included a clever dummy pitstop call to force erstwhile leader Sergio Perez into an earlier pitstop.
“I don’t think there was much more I could do,” Leclerc told Sky Sports F1.
“There was one opportunity that we missed a little bit with the yellow flag in Turn 1, so we didn’t have the DRS there and it could have been an opportunity to at least be alongside Max at the end of the straight.
“Apart from that, I think we did everything right as a team, strategy, pitstops, the dummy call on…
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