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Verstappen switches focus to re-boot defence of F1 groups’ title
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Verstappen switches focus to re-boot defence of F1 groups’ title

By Miles Cooper November 28, 2024
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Verstappen switches focus to re-boot defence of F1 groups’ title

Newly-crowned quadruple world champion Max Verstappen will change his consideration from the drivers’ title race to the groups’ contest this weekend when he leads Pink Bull’s unlikely bid to retain their crown on the Qatar Grand Prix.

Simply 5 days after clinching his fourth championship with a measured drive to fifth on the Las Vegas Grand Prix, the 27-year-old Dutchman will return to the monitor hoping he can repeat his pole-to-flag triumph from final 12 months.

Verstappen holds the lap document on the Lusail Worldwide Circuit, set in 2023, and may take pleasure in driving with freedom and confidence, however will face a sturdy problem from all his rivals as McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes search success.

After falling away final weekend, within the drivers’ title battle, Lando Norris and his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri will purpose so as to add to their place as leaders on 608 factors, 24 away from Ferrari on 584 and Pink Bull, on 555, with two Grands Prix, together with a dash in Qatar, remaining.

Verstappen received final 12 months’s race forward of Norris and Piastri, who claimed victory within the dash, suggesting that given newer type it is going to be a weekend that will favour the vastly-improved McLaren staff within the third Qatar occasion.

Mercedes’ outgoing seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton, who leaves the staff to affix Ferrari after the season finale in Abu Dhabi subsequent week, received the inaugural Qatar race in 2021. There was no race in 2022 when Qatar hosted the soccer World Cup ultimate event.

“Successful the title was an unbelievable second,” mentioned Verstappen forward of his arrival in Doha. “I’m so happy with what we achieved as a staff. There have been troublesome moments, however we caught collectively, by no means gave up and that is what made it so particular.

“We’re nonetheless very centered for the Qatar race and it’s going to be a busy weekend. The season isn’t over but… We need to preserve the momentum going and win as many factors as we are able to for the staff –- deliver it on!”

– ‘No person is unbeatable’ –

The champion can count on a powerful problem from all of his rivals led by Mercedes’ George Russell, who received in Nevada and declared that he was intent on launching a title bid in 2025, if his oft-capricious automobile proves as quick and dependable because it was final weekend.

“No person is unbeatable,” mentioned Russell, amid speak of a Verstappen period of dominance. “You undergo phases when groups and drivers are dominating, however you need to have perception in your self… Personally, I imagine that we are able to battle him in equal equipment.”

The change in focus to the constructors’ championship will see status and prize cash at stake for the groups who, throughout the sport and its paddock, regard it because the true focus of their consideration whereas acknowledging the favored worth of the drivers’ title too.

Though the allocation of prize cash isn’t made public, most knowledgeable paddock sources imagine that the champion staff wins an estimated $140-150 million with the runners-up taking $130-135 million.

The third-placed staff might obtain round 125 million with every of the ten receiving roughly 10 million lower than the staff ending a spot above them, a scenario that may change in 2026 when Common Motors’ Cadillac model enters as a brand new staff.

By then, given F1’s American-fuelled progress, the income streams and prize cash are anticipated to have elevated with the momentum generated that, on Wednesday, noticed the well-known and historic Italian Grand Prix lengthen its place on the calendar with a six-year deal by to 2031.

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