Logan Sargeant (P16): 6/10
Logan Sargeant came out of Bahrain as top of the 2023 Class of Rookies, but unfortunately his inexperience showed in Jeddah and he flunked the exams this time out. He had been in the bottom five in all three practice sessions and never looked likely to make the first cut, but he did cause an early stir when he briefly headed the timesheets at the start of Q1. However it soon emerged than he had exceeded track limits in the process and the time was deleted. The pressure got to him when he tried to get a time on the board culminating in two close encounters with the barrier during his last chance effort. It left him starting the race dead last on hard tyres, and while he battled his way to P13 after the pit stops he was left running an extended stint on the medium compound. He ended up being picked off by Zhou Guanyu and Nyck de Vries, with Oscar Piastri rubbing the salt in the wound with a last lap pass of his own.
Oscar Piastri (P15): 7/10
It was a decent build up for Oscar Piastri, who was 14th and ahead of McLaren team mate Lando Norris in first practice. Both drivers were in the top ten in FP3, and when Norris made a costly mistake in the first round of qualifying, Piastri was on hand to progress all the way through to the final top ten shoot-out round. Unfortunately all this hard work was ruined at the start of Sunday's race when Piastri found himself squeezed through the turn 2 bottleneck and he ended up clipping the back of Pierre Gasly's AlphaTauri. Not only did that damage his front wing and force him to make an early unscheduled stop, debris from the incident also hit Norris' car and sent him to the pits for repairs as well. All in all a nightmare for the team, which could only watch on as both their drivers circulated outside the points for the rest of the evening.
