Here are all the facts and statistics you need to know about Jeddah Corniche Circuit ahead of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix!
Track length: 6.174km
Race length: 308.450km
Laps: 50
Turns: 27
Circuit opened: 2021
F1 first visited: 2021
Races held: 4
Track Record: 1:27.511, Lewis Hamilton, 2021
Lap Record: 1:30.734, Lewis Hamilton, 2021
RACE WINNERS
Formula 1 raced at Jeddah Corniche Circuit for the first time in 2021. It is the fastest street track on which Formula 1 has ever raced.
The circuit has hosted the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix four times so far. The first two races at the Jeddah venue – in 2021 and 2022 – were held within 112 days of one another.
The 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was held as the penultimate round of the 2021 season, while the 2022, 2023 and 2024 events were the second round of their respective seasons.
Max Verstappen is the only repeat winner at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
The four races held at Jeddah Corniche Circuit so far have had three different winners. Lewis Hamilton took victory in 2021, Max Verstappen won in 2022 and Sergio Perez was victorious in 2023. Verstappen became the first repeat winner of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in 2024.
Red Bull hold the record for most team wins at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix having won the last three events. Mercedes are the only other team to have won here.
Dutch drivers have two wins here, with Britain and Mexico each having won once.
At the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Red Bull became the first team to record a 1-2 finish at Jeddah Corniche Circuit. They did so again in 2024.
Each race at the track so far has featured a team finish with both cars on the podium. In addition to Red Bull’s 1-2 results in 2023 and 2024, both Mercedes drivers finished on the podium (in 1st and 3rd) in 2021, while both Ferraris finished in the top three in 2022 (in 2nd and 3rd).
Hamilton holds the record for largest Saudi Arabian Grand Prix winning margin
Lewis Hamilton currently holds the record for the largest winning margin at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, having taken victory in 2021 by 21.825 seconds.
In 2022, Max Verstappen crossed the line just 0.594 seconds ahead of Charles Leclerc, making it the smallest win margin so far at Jeddah Corniche Circuit.
From the four races held here so far, the average winning margin is 10.354 seconds.
ON THE PODIUM
Seven different drivers have stood on the podium at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Verstappen has the most podium finishes at Jeddah Corniche Circuit
Max Verstappen has finished on the podium in every running of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix to date. He holds the record of most podium finishes here, with four.
Until 2024, he was the only driver to record multiple podium finishes at the track. Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc took their second top three finishes in Jeddah in 2024.
All of the drivers who’ve finished on the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix podium are on the 2025 grid. In addition to Verstappen, Perez and Leclerc’s podium finishes, Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas, Carlos Sainz and Fernando Alonso each have a single top three finish in Jeddah.
Red Bull hold the record for most Saudi Arabian Grand Prix podiums
So far, four different teams have finished on the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix podium. Red Bull have the most, with six, while Ferrari have three and Mercedes have two. Aston Martin became the fourth team to finish on the podium at Jeddah Corniche Circuit in 2023.
POLESITTERS
Sergio Perez holds the record for most Saudi Arabian Grand Prix poles, with two in the last three years. Lewis Hamilton took pole for the inaugural race at Jeddah Corniche Circuit, while Max Verstappen secured pole in 2024.
Red Bull have the record for most poles at Jeddah Corniche Circuit, with three, while Mercedes are the only other team to have taken pole here.
The 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix is the only race in Jeddah at which a team has secured a front row lock-out. Mercedes did so on that occasion.
The largest pole margin at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix is 0.319s
The first three qualifying sessions held at Jeddah Corniche Circuit were decided by relatively small margins. Sergio Perez’s record for the largest pole margin at the track (0.155 seconds in 2023) was beaten in 2024 by Max Verstappen, who took pole by 0.319 seconds.
Sergio Perez secured pole position by only 0.025 seconds at the 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. It’s the smallest margin by which pole has been taken so far in Jeddah.
From the four Saudi Arabian Grands Prix held so far at Jeddah Corniche Circuit, the average pole margin is 0.153 seconds.
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SATURDAY TO SUNDAY
The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix has been won from pole position three times so far, in 2021, 2023 and 2024. In 2022, polesitter Sergio Perez finished fourth.
In 2023, Perez became the first polesitter at Jeddah Corniche Circuit to not led at the end of the first lap. Perez crossed the line second on that occasion.
Max Verstappen holds the record for the furthest back position from which the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix has been won, having won from fourth on the grid in 2022.
Every podium finish except one has come from the front two rows of the grid
Max Verstappen’s 2022 win from 4th on the grid and his podium finish from 15th on the grid in 2023 are the only podium finishes at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix which have not come from the top three on the grid.
The 2021 and 2024 Saudi Arabian Grands Prix are the only races at the track so far in which all of the top three starters finished on the podium. There’s yet to be a race here in which the top three finish in the same order as they started.
SUNDAY STATISTICS
So far, there have been 200 racing laps completed at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Four drivers have completed all 150 Grand Prix laps raced at Jeddah Corniche Circuit to date: Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc.
Mercedes and Ferrari are the only teams to have seen both of their drivers complete all 50 laps in all four races held at Jeddah Corniche Circuit.
From the 80 cars which have entered a race here, 78 have started. Both Mick Schumacher and Yuki Tsunoda failed to start the race in 2022.
From the 78 cars which have started races here, 64 have reached the chequered flag. That gives a finish rate of 82%.
The 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix is the only time that more than 12 drivers completed every lap in the Grand Prix. 17 drivers finished on the same lap as race winner Sergio Perez in 2023.
Max Verstappen holds the record for most points scored in Saudi Arabia, having picked up 87 points across the four races held so far at the track.
Charles Leclerc holds the record for most fastest laps
In 2024, Charles Leclerc became the first driver to record the fastest lap on multiple occasions at Jeddah Corniche Circuit.
While Leclerc set the fastest lap in 2022 and 2024, Lewis Hamilton set the fastest lap in 2021 and Max Verstappen set the fastest lap in 2023.
Verstappen has led the most laps here
In 2024, Max Verstappen overtook Sergio Perez as the driver who has led the most laps at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. He has led 82 laps to date at the track.
Seven drivers have led a lap in total at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
There’s yet to be a Jeddah race in which the eventual winner has led every lap. In both of the first races held at the circuit, the winner was not the driver who led the most laps in the race. Hamilton led 18 laps on his way to victory in 2021, while Verstappen led just six laps in 2022.
Charles Leclerc holds the record for most laps led at Jeddah Corniche Circuit without taking victory. He led 30 laps of the 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
While both the 2021 and 2022 races featured three different drivers leading a lap of the Grand Prix, there were only two lap leaders in 2023 and 2024.
Safety Cars and Red Flags at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix
The Safety Car has made seven appearances so far at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
In addition to the two Safety Car periods in 2021, there were also six Virtual Safety Car periods and two formation laps which took place behind the Safety Car.
The 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix is the only race to be red-flagged at the circuit. The event featured two red flags – one the result of a collision for Mick Schumacher and the other as a result of a pile-up at the race’s first restart.
There has never been a rain-affected race at Jeddah Corniche Circuit. We’re unlikely to see a wet weather race here, given that the city gets only half a day’s worth of rain in the entire month that the race is held.
The 2023 and 2024 Saudi Arabian Grands Prix are the Jeddah races which have seen the most cars finish. 18 of the 20 starters crossed the finish line on those occasions. In 2022, just 13 cars reached the end of the race; a new record low for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
There’s yet to be a first lap retirement at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix – though Pierre Gasly pulled into the pit lane to retire at the end of Lap 1 in 2024.
CHAMPIONSHIP GLORY
A World Champion has never been crowned at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, with both titles still up for grabs after all three races held so far at the track.
After the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton were tied on points. It left them heading into the final round of the season level on points – the first time this had happened since 1974.
The winner of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix has been crowned World Champion in the same season once: in 2022.
The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix polesitter is yet to win the title in the same season as they have taken pole at the track.
