F1 standings | Red Bull on the heels of Mercedes, Ferrari lone leader

Red Bull scores points

For Red Bull Racing, it was important to bounce back in Saudi Arabia after a double retirement in Bahrain. Red Bull already started the weekend well with a pole for Sergio Perez, but in the end it was Max Verstappen who managed to take the victory. With a fourth place for Perez, the team scored 37 points.

This brings the team to within one point of Mercedes, which managed to score points in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, but fifth and tenth place are not normally the places where Mercedes is used to finishing. Ferrari is doing a lot better. After a 1-2 in Bahrain, there was now a double podium again with the fastest lap, but the first step of the podium was not achieved. Ferrari is now on 78 points.

Alpine climbs up

Behind the top three, Alpine, despite a retirement of Fernando Alonso, takes the spot as 'best of the rest' after Esteban Ocon's sixth place. Haas follows on P5, after Kevin Magnussen managed to score two points in Saudi Arabia. Alfa Romeo drops to sixth place. Valtteri Bottas crashed out in Jeddah and Guanyu Zhou finished outside the points.

AlphaTauri is seventh with two eighth-place finishes, but if the team wants to finish higher, something will have to be done about the dropouts. McLaren is off the hook after Lando Norris' seventh place finish, but the same cannot be said for Aston Martin and Williams. Those two British teams are at the bottom of the table.

Constructors' standings after the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix

1. Ferrari - 78 points

2. Mercedes - 38 points

3. Red Bull Racing - 37 points

4. Alpine - 16 points

5. Haas - 12 points

6. Alfa Romeo - 9 points

7. AlphaTauri - 8 points

8. McLaren - 6 points

9. Aston Martin - 0 points

10. Williams - 0 points