Sergio Perez delivered 'a lap in a thousand' to claim an unexpected pole position start – his first in Formula 1 – for Sunday's 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, the Red Bull driver ambushing the odds by dispensing with the pre-qualifying favourites. Typically master qualifier Max Verstappen is tasked with top spot hunting for Red Bull and was, along with Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, favourite for pole. Until, of course, he delivered 1:28.200s of sheer brilliance around the treacherous and unforgiving Feddah Corniche Circuit to pinch pole from the Ferrari duo while his teammate Verstappen scuffed his chance; he will start from fourth on the grid. On his slowdown lap, Perez –...
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