ROUND 23: 🇶🇦 Qatar

FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS QATAR GRAND PRIX 2025

Circuit stats

  • Circuit name: Lusail International Circuit
  • First Grand Prix: 2021
  • Number of laps: 57
  • Circuit Length: 5.419 km
  • Race Distance: 308.611 km
  • Lap record: 1:22.384 Lando Norris (2024)
  • 2024 winner: Max Verstappen

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  • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
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    17 days ago

    This just solidifies my belief that Mclaren doesn’t have two number 1 drivers, they have two number 2 drivers. They could’ve had the WDC in the bag by now and instead it gets down to the last race. It’s still Norris’s championship to lose but if he hadn’t passed Antonelli then Max winning the WDC would’ve been a near guarantee. It shouldn’t have been this close to begin with, but because McLaren refuses to have a number 1 driver we’re going to the last race with only a small advantage for Norris to win. If I was Oscar Piastri I would be looking at what other teams can offer because Mclaren is only cares about the WCC. He deserves better.

    The rest of the race kinda meh IMO. I don’t know how Sainz got to P3 but definitely a good job.

    • AliSaket@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      17 days ago

      The problem is more that they make silly unforced errors. Like today, where they made a completely weird strategy call for both or last race, where they had more porpoising than they expected and got DQed. There were more of these errors during the season, albeit not often this consequential. They could have gone into the last few races just fighting it out amongst themselves, but instead they’ve let a third one get in between them.

      If I was Oscar Piastri I would be looking at what other teams can offer

      This would be even more true, if McL had decided to back Lando at the beginning of the season. It is precisely the equal opportunity in the most competitive car, that would keep him there (rule changes for 2026 notwithstanding). So the argument is exactly the opposite.