US EditionMcLaren Boss Admits Team Made Costly Strategy Blunder During Qatar GP
McLaren's decision not to pit under a safety car cost Oscar Piastri a likely win and tightened the title gap to 12 points between Norris and Verstappen, officials said.
- At the Qatar Grand Prix, Verstappen's win set up a title decider in Abu Dhabi as Lando Norris leads by 12 points in the drivers' standings.
- McLaren's decision on pit strategy at the Lap 7 safety car cost Oscar Piastri a likely win as he finished second, now four points behind Verstappen and 16 behind Lando Norris.
- Reacting to the result, Norris added, 'Obviously it's not our greatest day, not our greatest weekend', saying he just wanted to go to bed after the McLaren strategy blunder.
- To secure the title, Norris said he would focus on continuing his run of good form, which saw him take recent victories in Mexico and Brazil, and a podium in Abu Dhabi would still guarantee the title for Norris.
- Reflecting on his season, Lando Norris said his earlier strong results put him atop the championship, and he will take the outcome on the chin, aiming to respond at the final race in Abu Dhabi.
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The seventh lap of the Qatar Formula 1 GP. The accident between Nico Hulkenberg and Pierre Gasly and safety car. It's the moment when Max Verstappen won the Losail Grand Prix. He did it thanks to a winning strategy, chosen by Hannah Schmitz, ingenera RedBull who decided to immediately call to the pits both Verstappen and Yuki Tsunoda thanks to a plan studied before the race. The plan was clear: with two stints (sequence of laps carried out in th…
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McLaren's botched strategy call helps Verstappen win Qatar GP as F1 title fight goes to final race (copy)
One week after losing all their points from the Las Vegas Grand Prix, McLaren threw away a bunch more in an increasingly tense Formula 1 title race by botching a strategy call at the Qatar GP on Sunday.
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