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Max Verstappen arrived in Saudi Arabia a day later due to illness. However, the way he walked and drove on and around the Jeddah Corniche Circuit showed that the Dutchman had been in bed for days with a stomach flu. During his laps on the more than 6-kilometer street circuit along the Red Sea, he had the strong Saudi sea breeze one moment against and the next, but in a figurative sense the Dutchman and his Red Bull team had the wind in their sails and seemed to be nothing can go wrong. Léék, because in qualifying things went painfully wrong.
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