The Formula 1 paddock reconvenes this weekend for the Qatar Grand Prix and Sprint, with plenty of topics up for discussion during the media day.<\/p>\n
Lando Norris<\/a> enters this weekend with a 24-point lead in the Drivers’ Championship and the possibility of claiming the title, the Briton claiming “nothing has changed”<\/a> despite a double disqualification for McLaren<\/a> in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n Both team mate Oscar Piastri<\/a> and Max Verstappen<\/a> sit 24 points behind, with the Red Bull<\/a> driver claiming he’s “all in”<\/a> for a fifth title after winning last weekend.<\/p>\n Further down the grid, Lewis Hamilton<\/a> claimed to have no regrets on his decision to join Ferrari<\/a> after a challenging maiden campaign, while team mate Charles Leclerc hoped to do something special<\/a> before the end of the season.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Fernando Alonso<\/a> and Lance Stroll<\/a> offered their verdicts on Adrian Newey becoming the new team principal at Aston Martin<\/a>.<\/p>\n Join Laura Winter, James Hinchcliffe, Jolyon Palmer and Juan Pablo Montoya on Weekend Warm-Up for all of the above and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Formula 1 paddock reconvenes this weekend for the Qatar Grand Prix and Sprint, with plenty of topics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-315293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}