{"id":320416,"date":"2025-12-01T11:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/320416\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T11:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:16:09","slug":"a-key-question-piastri-answered-in-the-qatar-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/320416\/","title":{"rendered":"A key question Piastri answered in the Qatar GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/mclaren\/36473\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">McLaren<\/a>, indubitably, has questions to answer after coughing up almost certain victory in Qatar and enabling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/max-verstappen\/829269\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Max Verstappen<\/a>&#8216;s seemingly improbable championship renaissance to gather more momentum into the final round.<\/p>\n<p>But while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/oscar-piastri\/869530\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oscar Piastri<\/a> now has a rather steeper obstacle to overcome before he can lay his hands on the drivers&#8217; trophy, he laid to rest many of the doubts which have been hovering over him since late summer. He was at his imperious, laid-back best throughout the Qatar weekend: faster than team-mate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/lando-norris\/840487\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lando Norris<\/a> in every session that mattered; winning the sprint race commandingly; and then knuckling down to the task of rescuing his grand prix without getting in a flap after the McLaren pitwall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/f1\/news\/has-mclaren-just-scored-an-own-goal-in-qatar-gp-our-writers-have-their-say\/10781316\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">suffered a collective headfart<\/a> on lap seven.<\/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":"McLaren, indubitably, has questions to answer after coughing up almost certain victory in Qatar and enabling Max Verstappen&#8216;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[180521,64,63,817,813,816,1737,176737,913,2333,167718,85],"class_list":["post-320416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-a-key-question-piastri-answered-in-the-qatar-gp","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lando-norris","tag-losail-international-circuit","tag-mclaren","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-qatar-gp","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320416","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=320416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}