{"id":317514,"date":"2025-11-30T00:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T00:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317514\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T00:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T00:29:08","slug":"what-we-learned-from-the-2025-f1-qatar-gp-sprint-race-and-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317514\/","title":{"rendered":"What we learned from the 2025 F1 Qatar GP sprint race and qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We just fall into that window where we just struggle a lot on the tyres and we don&#8217;t seem to really be able to keep up. Those final laps of Oscar [Piastri] in the sprint, I need to cut a corner to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In his reflections of the sprint race pace from the McLarens, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/max-verstappen\/829269\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Max Verstappen<\/a> did not sound especially hopeful about his chances of delivering equivalent race laps. Indeed, Piastri had the advantage from clean air; Qatar&#8217;s series of long and fast corners might be a dream scenario for the drivers, but rarely do such corners contribute to good races. It&#8217;s incredibly difficult to follow through those corners since adhesion is king, and a car loses around 20-30% of its downforce when following in the wake of another.<\/p>\n<p>            We want to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">Let us know what you would like to see from us in the future.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Autosport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We just fall into that window where we just struggle a lot on the tyres and we don&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,176737,167718,85,179145],"class_list":["post-317514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-losail-international-circuit","tag-qatar-gp","tag-sports","tag-what-we-learned-from-the-2025-f1-qatar-gp-sprint-race-and-qualifying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317514","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=317514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}