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Lando Norris says he will take what happened during his disastrous Qatar Grand Prix "on the chin" after a costly choice not to pit under the safety car ruined his race.
The McLaren driver slipped back in the title fight after a safety car was called at the Losail circuit following a clash between Pierre Gasly and Nico Hulkenberg. While Max Verstappen - and every other driver - pitted for fresh ...Keep reading

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella says his squad "didn't expect" everyone else to pit under an early safety car as it lost a likely Qatar Grand Prix win to Max Verstappen and Red Bull, and handed the Dutchman a lifeline for a fifth Formula 1 world title.
McLaren's polesitter Oscar Piastri was leading the race from Verstappen and Lando Norris when a collision between Nico Hulkenberg and ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen delivered a crucial victory at the Qatar Grand Prix as he closed to within 12 points of Lando Norris in the 2025 Formula 1 title race, as McLaren threw away a potential win thanks to a poor strategy call on a seventh-lap safety car. 
Polesitter Oscar Piastri had looked settled in the lead of the race and, owing to the difficulty of overtaking around the Losail circuit, the ...Keep reading

Norris failed to use his match point
The championship battle goes on.
Lando Norris arrived in Qatar with an opportunity to clinch the title there and then – and would have been able to do so by simply outscoring Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri by two points.
Yet that task proved too difficult. Norris struggled to match his team-mate, and at times it looked as if he was being overly ...Keep reading

Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri will contest a final-race championship showdown in Abu Dhabi after the Red Bull driver won a gripping Qatar Grand Prix.

Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri will contest a final-race championship showdown in Abu Dhabi after the Red Bull driver won a gripping Qatar Grand Prix.

Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri will contest a final-race championship showdown in Abu Dhabi after the Red Bull driver won a gripping Qatar Grand Prix.

Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri will contest a final-race championship showdown in Abu Dhabi after the Red Bull driver won a gripping Qatar Grand Prix.

Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri will contest a final-race championship showdown in Abu Dhabi after the Red Bull driver won a gripping Qatar Grand Prix.

Victor Martins put in a superb performance to win this weekend’s Feature Race in Qatar, leading home Leonardo Fornaroli in second place, a result that saw the Italian become the 2025 Formula 2 Champion.

Oscar Piastri confidently held onto the lead of the Qatar Grand Prix on the opening lap, while his McLaren team mate Lando Norris lost a position to title rival Max Verstappen.

The full official starting order for Sunday's 2025 Qatar Grand Prix.

Live coverage of Sunday's Formula 1 Qatar Airways Qatar Grand Prix 2025.

Nico Hulkenberg has crashed out of the Qatar Grand Prix after a collision with Alpine's Pierre Gasly on the seventh lap.
As the German driver attempted to pass Gasly around the outside at Turn 2, the pair made contact, sending Hulkenberg spinning through the gravel before he came to a stop.
 
Hulkenberg had started the race from 11th position on the grid and was running in 10th at the ...Keep reading

Leonardo Fornaroli has won the 2025 Formula 2 title before the championship even headed to Abu Dhabi, thanks to second place in the Qatar feature race.
Polesitter Fornaroli was passed by Victor Martins at the start as the Frenchman took a swift getaway, but shadowed the ART racer throughout the contest as a mid-race safety car intervention scuppered the chances of the drivers on the alternate ...Keep reading

Formula 1 drivers had already warned on Friday that following other cars would be particularly difficult around the Losail International Circuit, and that fear became reality on Saturday. 
The 19-lap race featured very few overtaking moves, with even drivers in the midfield – including Oliver Bearman – calling the sprint “uneventful.” It was backed up by Isack Hadjar, who even ...Keep reading

Kalle Rovanpera says rallying will always hold a special place in his heart after closing the chapter on a record-breaking World Rally Championship career in favour of a move to single-seater racing. 
A fairytale finish to his WRC career eluded the Toyota driver, who missed out on securing a third world title, finishing seventh at the Rally Saudi Arabia season finale after suffering ...Keep reading

McLaren Formula 1 team principal Andrea Stella says Oscar Piastri's return to form in Qatar fits within his high-grip theory about the Australian. 
Piastri struggled for pace compared to team-mate Lando Norris at low-grip circuits in Austin and Mexico, and also saw Norris beat him in Brazil and Las Vegas. But the Australian was back to his very best this weekend in Qatar, taking a ...Keep reading

In Qatar, Lando Norris has his first-ever match point to clinch a Formula 1 world title. If the Briton scores four points more than Oscar Piastri and one point more than Max Verstappen on Sunday, the title fight will already be decided before the season finale. 
However, ahead of the Qatar Grand Prix, Verstappen stated that he would have wrapped up the championship much earlier had he been ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri put together an eye-catching lap to beat his title rivals Lando Norris and Max Verstappen to pole position at the last opportunity in Qualifying for the Qatar Grand Prix.