After a McLaren 1-2 at today’s sprint race, all eyes are on the team as they fight to secure the Constructors’ title against Ferrari as qualifying got underway at the F1 Qatar GP. Q1 George Russell is first to line up in the pit lane exit, with medium compound tyres on his Mercedes. Green light and go! …
Nico Hülkenberg says that he did not expect to keep Red Bull driver Max Verstappen behind in the Sprint race for the Qatar GP. The German had a strong start to the weekend at the Lusail International Circuit. The pace in the sole practice session looked good. In the Sprint qualifying, Hülkenberg showed a great…
It’s the final sprint race of the season at the Qatar GP — and for Mercedes’ George Russell the weekend at the Losail International Circuit has been off to a great start. Russell had placed P8 during FP1, and he completed the front row, finishing P2 during Sprint Qualifying. The Briton clocked a time of…
Ferrari drivers Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc spoke after the Qatar GP Sprint race, after finishing where they started. Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc started P4 and P5 coming into the sprint race. Lewis Hamilton jumped the driver from Monaco on the first lap. From there. Leclerc dropped back as the top 5 built a…
McLaren driver Norris hands the Qatar Sprint Race win to his teammate Oscar Piastri after having been in the lead until the final corner of the nineteen racing laps. They brought back home a significant haul of points, especially compared to Ferrari ending the round in P4 and P5. Heated title fight The Woking-based team…
Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have started a massive weekend for McLaren on the front foot as they qualified P1 and P3 for the F1 Sprint at the Qatar GP. The physical nature of the Lusail circuit All 20 drivers face a massive challenge in Qatar as the track is quite unrelenting with lots of…
Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc will start in 4th and 5th for the F1 Sprint at the Qatar GP as he continued his very good run of recent form. On the mediums in SQ1, Sainz was P2, almost half a second behind the flying Lando Norris. In SQ2, he dropped to 6th, although his lap…
After only one practice session it’s time to set the grid for tomorrow’s race with a Sprint Qualifying session for the Qatar GP. Who will start the final Sprint Race of 2024 from the best spot? SQ1 The first qualifying segment saw Sauber drivers Zhou Guanyu and Valtteri Bottas out on track first, followed by…
Audi has announced that the Qatari Investment Authority acquired a significant minority stake in Sauber Holding AG, the future factory team of Audi. QIA will enter the Formula 1 project as a long-term investor and partner. The German manufacturer officially joins in 2026, taking over the Sauber F1 Team. It will use the facility in…
As the sun started to set in the Middle East, the only practice session of the weekend got underway at Lusail in FP1 for the F1 Qatar GP. Verstappen out of the traps quickly Alpine’s Esteban Ocon set the first time on a 1:28.979, using the medium compound tyre. After Tsunoda went fastest, Max Verstappen…
