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F1 Qatar GP: Verstappen takes comfy win after Norris penalty
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F1 Qatar GP: Verstappen takes comfy win after Norris penalty

By Miles Cooper December 2, 2024
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Max Verstappen overcame three security automobiles to take an assured victory on the Qatar Grand Prix, as major risk Lando Norris copped a 10-second stop-and-go penalty for dashing beneath yellow flags.

Verstappen led each lap of the race to clinch his ninth victory of 2024, having overcome a fits-and-spurts risk from Norris, which was in the end concluded when the McLaren driver was caught not slowing for yellow flags alongside the start-finish straight.

These have been produced for Alex Albon’s escaped wing mirror, which was run over by Valtteri Bottas to supply a bathe of particles alongside the straight – which was doubtless the offender in mid-race punctures for Carlos Sainz and Lewis Hamilton.

Verstappen outdragged polesitter George Russell off the road; the Briton had assumed pole when the Dutchman was given a one-place grid drop for apparently baulking the Mercedes in qualifying.

Norris put Verstappen beneath scrutiny into the primary nook, having additionally claimed a great begin, however was proven the door by Verstappen and left to sit down within the Crimson Bull’s wheel tracks – though an early security automotive for a conflict between Nico Hulkenberg, Franco Colapinto, and Esteban Ocon gave Norris an opportunity at a restart overtake.

However this was effectively managed by Verstappen, who left Norris behind on the lap-five restart and began to attempt to construct a result in clear DRS vary. He managed this, however Norris’ laps ensured that he may a minimum of stay inside two seconds of his former title rival.

Though there was an ebb and flowof a couple of tenth over the following laps between the 2 , Norris by no means seemed like placing Verstappen beneath a practical risk – though instantly discovered half a second on Verstappen in the beginning of lap 30.

This was the smoking gun in Norris’ future penalty; Verstappen had slowed for the debris-induced yellow flags and Norris had not, though this was not realised earlier than a chaotic part launched by Sainz and Hamilton concurrently choosing up front-left punctures.

The security automotive was thus known as out to clear the mess, prompting Verstappen and Norris to lastly cease for the onerous tyres; on the restart, Norris stayed near the again of the main RB20 – the security automotive lights have been late in going off – and acquired a run into Flip 1. This problem, nevertheless, was defused expertly by Verstappen.

An instantaneous third security automotive interval adopted as a result of Hulkenberg spilling his Haas into the gravel at Flip 9, though Norris was dropped on the later restart by Verstappen and as an alternative left to defend from a chasing Charles Leclerc.

F1 Qatar GP: Verstappen takes comfy win after Norris penalty

Lando Norris, McLaren MCL38, kicks up gravel

Picture by: Zak Mauger / Motorsport Photos

At this juncture, Norris acquired the information of his 10-second stop-and-go penalty, extinguishing his faint hopes of overhauling Verstappen within the last part of the race.

This left Verstappen free to plough a lonely furrow in entrance, and he crossed the road 6.1s away from Leclerc to finish his second victory in three races.

Leclerc had overcome a sequence of threats from Oscar Piastri, who had discovered protecting contact with the Ferrari driver troublesome with DRS. Piastri had been forward previous to the second security automotive, however the unlucky timing of his pitstop (a lap earlier than the security automotive emerged) shuffled him behind the Ferrari driver.

The 2 moved up into the rostrum placings when Norris was rocked by his penalty, whereas Russell clinched fourth regardless of taking a five-second penalty on the shut of the race for a security automotive infringement.

Pierre Gasly took a significant fifth for Alpine and defended effectively from Carlos Sainz within the last levels of the race; the Frenchman had slipped off the street on the second security automotive restart and misplaced locations to Russell and Sainz, however reclaimed the latter place moments earlier than the Mercedes AMG GT security automotive returned to steer the sector.

Sainz thus shook off his puncture to take sixth, whereas Fernando Alonso’s gamble beneath the security automotive – through which he switched to the onerous tyre, solely to pounce when the sector was directed via the pitlane to suit the medium tyre as soon as extra – helped him clinch seventh.

Zhou Guanyu took a superb eighth to safe Sauber’s first factors of 2024, away from Kevin Magnussen – who got here to strife a number of instances when trying to cross Alex Albon – in ninth. Norris accomplished the highest 10 to get well to the factors, having moved previous the soft-shod RBs after which denied Bottas a primary level of the yr.

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