Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says the set-up changes the team made to Sergio Perez’s car for the sprint race helped his team mate take pole position in Qatar. Max Verstappen qualified sixth for the sprint race but beat George Russell to pole position for the grand prix by five hundredths of a second.
Max Verstappen took his first grand prix pole position for six months by beating George Russell by five hundredths of a second in Qatar. The world champion completed a remarkable turnaround for Red Bull from Saturday’s earlier sprint race, denying Russell to secure his first pole since June. However he is under investigation for failing
McLaren’s senior management confirmed that they did not ask Lando Norris to hand his team mate Oscar Piastri the sprint race win. Norris led the Losail sprint race every lap of the way before allowing Piastri to take the chequered flag first. McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown confirmed after the sprint race that the team
This session is live. You are not logged in, so new updates will not appear automatically. For automatic updates, log in here or register a free RaceFans account here. Big improvement from Magnussen for sixth, Zhou narrowly misses Q3, Bottas goes 12th behind him. Norris gets down to a 1’20.983 which puts him top of
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The FIA has been through a turbulent time lately, losing F1 race director Niels Wittich ahead of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, followed by F2’s intended race director Janette Tan and long-serving steward Tim Mayer. But it was keen to stress its latest meeting in Qatar between its representatives and drivers helped to address the
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With Lando Norris’s of faint hopes of overcoming Max Verstappen in the drivers’ championship finally extinguished last weekend in Las Vegas, McLaren has turned its focus on securing its first constructors’ title for a generation in Qatar. While they cannot defeat Ferrari in today’s sprint race, they can definitely put their rivals in check –
Formula 1 team bosses say they were surprised by the series’ decision to allow Cadillac to enter the championship in 2026. On Monday Formula One Management announced it had reached an agreement in principle for Cadillac to join the series in 2026. Cadillac has taken over the entry bid launched by Andretti last year which
Sergio Perez and Yuki Tsunoda are under investigation for allegedly driving too slowly during sprint race qualifying, after the stewards noted 40 potential incidents involving 17 drivers. Every driver in the field bar Fernando Alonso, Esteban Ocon and Nico Hulkenberg were identified as having exceeded the maximum time between the two Safety Car lines during
