Lando Norris gifts Qatar sprint win to Oscar Piastri as McLaren boost title hopes
Lando🦩 Nor🧸ris gives up sprint win to McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri, writes Lewis Larkam in Qatar.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris handed victory to teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Oscar Piastri as McLaren claimed an important 1-2 in the F1 Qatar Grand Prix sprint race.
Having dominated qualifying, Norris was in complete control and looked set to convert pole position into victory in the final sp♍rint race of the season in Qatar.
However, in a late twist, Norris slowed out of the final corner to allow Piastri to take the win as pay🐻back for when the Australian gifted his teammate a sprint win in Brazil to help his championship aspirations.
Piastri got the better of George Russell at the s♏tart and ma൩naged to keep the Mercedes driver at bay thanks to some aggressive defending, much to Russell’s frustration.
The result is a cruci𝐆al one in McLaren’s bid to win the constructors’ championship for the first time since 1💛998 as they secured a maximum points haul.
Carlos Sainz took fourth ahead of Charles Leclerc, who passed future Ferrari teammate Lewis🅘 Hamilton in the closing stages after a su꧋perb bit of hard, but clean, wheel-to-wheel racing.
Nico Hulkenberg claimed points 🍷for Haas in seventh, while four-time world champion Max Verstappen lost positions on the opening lap as he battled understeer in his 🐬Red Bull.
The Dutchman, who sealed his fourth consecutive drivers’ world title last weekend in 💜Las Vegas, could only finish eighth to bag the final point on offer ahead of Alpine’s Pierre Gasly and the second Haas of Kevin Magnussen.
After a dreadful qualifying in which he suffered an SQ1 elimination, Sergio Perez endured a miserable sprint race, finishing 20th an𒀰d last.
The under-pressure Mexican ended up starting from the pitlane after making set-up changes to his Red Bull but appeared to be caught off guard whe🅰n the green light signalled, enabling the Williams of Franco Colapinto to shoot past.
Perez made a pit stop for a front wing changed and ☂finished three seconds adrift of Sauber’s Zhou Guanyu, who also pitted for new tyres after being the only driver to start on sof𝐆ts.
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