Oscar Piastri's victory put Australia on top of the World Formula One Championship for the first time since 2010.
McLaren's Oscar Piestri came to victory in the Grandbia of Saudi Arabia of Formula one to move at the top of the driver's championship after five races in the season.
The 24 -year -old became the first pilot this season to win while he did not start in the post, and comfortably ended the race before the runner -up Max Verstappen of Red Bull, whom he received a five -second penalty for leaving the track and obtaining an advantage in the first round of the race on Sunday.
Charles Leclerc finished third to give Ferrari his first podium of the season. Pastri's McLaren teammate, Lando Norris, finished fourth, while George Russell de Mercedes ended in fifth place and Kimi Antonelli was sixth.
With his third victory of the season, and the second consecutive after winning in Bahrein last week, Piastri becomes the first Australian pilot to lead the classification of the pilot championship from Mark Webber in 2010. It is the first time that Piestri has led the classification of drivers in his F1 career.
Piastri, who started the race from the second position in the initial grid, finally took the lead on the 6.1 km (3.8 miles) track after Verstappen fulfilled its five -second penalty during a boxing stop at the Tour reign.
In addition to the racial victories of 2025 in Saudi and Bahrain Arabia, Piastri also won the second race of the season in China. McLaren has won four of the five races after Norris won the opening race of the season in Australia.
Verstappen's finalist occurred after he won the Saudi Arabia Grand Prix in two of the last three years.
In the pilot championship, Piastri has 99 points for the 89 of Norris and the 87 of Verstappen. The McLaren champions stretched their leadership over Mercedes in the classification of the builders at 77 points.
