{"id":35327,"date":"2025-04-20T10:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T10:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/35327\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T10:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T10:13:07","slug":"saudi-arabian-grand-prix-2025-start-time-grid-positions-how-to-watch-f1-and-weather-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/35327\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2025: Start time, grid positions, how to watch F1 and weather forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Verstappen pipped Oscar Piastri to pole by 0.01 seconds, with George Russell third and Lewis Hamilton in sixth.<\/p>\n

Norris lost control on the exit of turn four and his car slid on to the kerb at turn five and flicked into the wall on the exit.<\/p>\n

He says he now has a \u201cbig job\u201d on his hands to try to recover from his crash in qualifying, and admits to \u201cget close\u201d to Verstappen, Piastri and Russell is \u201cnot very realistic\u201d.<\/p>\n

When is the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2025?<\/p>\n

The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix takes place on Sunday April 20, 2025 at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2025 start time and schedule<\/p>\n

The first two practice sessions in Jeddah took place on Friday, with FP3 to follow at 2:30pm BST (4:30pm local time) on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Qualifying is at 6pm BST on Saturday evening, while the race itself takes place at the same time on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2025 grid positions<\/p>\n

1. Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Red Bull Racing, 1 minute, 27.294 seconds.<\/p>\n

2. Oscar Piastri, Australia, McLaren, 1:27.304.<\/p>\n

3. George Russell, Great Britain, Mercedes, 1:27.407.<\/p>\n

4. Charles Leclerc, Monaco, Ferrari, 1:27.670.<\/p>\n

5. Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Italy, Mercedes, 1:27.866.<\/p>\n

6. Carlos Sainz Jr., Spain, Williams, 1:28.164.<\/p>\n

7. Lewis Hamilton, Great Britain, Ferrari, 1:28.201.<\/p>\n

8. Yuki Tsunoda, Japan, Red Bull Racing, 1:28.204.<\/p>\n

9. Pierre Gasly, France, Alpine, 1:28.367.<\/p>\n

10. Lewis Hamilton, Great Britain, Ferrari, 1:28.102.<\/p>\n

11. Alexander Albon, Thailand, Williams, 1:28.109.<\/p>\n

12. Liam Lawson, New Zealand, Racing Bulls, 1:28.191.<\/p>\n

13. Fernando Alonso, Spain, Aston Martin, 1:28.303.<\/p>\n

14. Isack Hadjar, France, Racing Bulls, 1:28.418.<\/p>\n

15. Oliver Bearman, England, Haas, 1:28.648.<\/p>\n

16. Lance Stroll, Canada, Aston Martin, 1:28.645.<\/p>\n

17. Jack Doohan, Australia, Alpine, 1:28.739.<\/p>\n

18. Nico Hulkenberg, Germany, KICK Sauber, 1:28.782.<\/p>\n

19. Esteban Ocon, France, Haas, 1:29.092.<\/p>\n

20. Gabriel Bortoleto, Brazil, KICK Sauber, 1:29.462. <\/p>\n

How to watch Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2025<\/p>\n

TV channel: In the UK, you can follow live coverage of the entire race weekend in full via Sky Sports F1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Coverage of FP3 and the race itself are also on Sky Sports Main Event, where they will join proceedings at 6:30pm on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

Live stream: Those with a Sky Sports subscription can also watch every session from the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix weekend live online via the Sky Go app.<\/p>\n

Free highlights: Channel 4 will be showing free-to-air highlights of the race on Sunday night from 10:30pm BST.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2025 weather forecast<\/p>\n

Temperatures are expected to hit a very hot 37\u00b0 Celsius over the weekend in Jeddah, with the heat and sun accompanied by a gentle breeze. There will be no chance of rain at any stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Verstappen pipped Oscar Piastri to pole by 0.01 seconds, with George Russell third and Lewis Hamilton in sixth.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,1711,1073,20434,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-35327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-lando-norris","12":"tag-max-verstappen","13":"tag-saudi-arabian-grand-prix","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114369763997505981","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}