Sergio Perez converted pole position into victory at the 2023 Formula 1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix as teammate Max Verstappen recovered from P15 to make successive one-two finishes for Red Bull. Perez, Verstappen, and Alonso all swapped from their P Zero Yellow medium C3 starting tyres to the hard tyre on lap 18, under the safety car. Max Verstappen set the fastest lap on the hard tyre (1m31.906s) while Lewis Hamilton was the driver who covered the most laps on the medium: 32. No fewer than seven drivers set their best lap times of the race on the final lap with the hard tyre. Of those, only the two Alfa Romeo drivers didn’t finish the race on the hard. Hamilton and Sargeant finished the race on mediums, as they were the only drivers to start on hards.

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