McLaren enter Sprint qualifying for the Qatar Sprint race as the clear favourite from pole position, following a dominant display in practice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oscar Piastri set the pace in practice at the Lusail International Circuit, although Lando Norris was only 0.058s adrift. It is a critical weekend for Norris, as he can secure the drivers’ title.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso was McLaren’s closest competitor in practice, but still almost four-tenths slower than Piastri.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Max Verstappen was sixth on the timesheets and nearly six-tenths down on Piastri, with the Dutchman having complained several times about his RB21.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Red Bull has much work to do ahead of sprint qualifying, can the Milton Keynes-based outfit find the solution to Verstappen’s complaints? Tune in to find out!<\/p>\n
Follow along to the RacingNews365 live coverage of Sprint qualifying from the Qatar Grand Prix below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McLaren enter Sprint qualifying for the Qatar Sprint race as the clear favourite from pole position, following a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3007,3010,3008,3011,3009,831,372,49,832,3006,3005,50,3004,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-288290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1-calendar","10":"tag-f1-live","11":"tag-f1-results","12":"tag-f1-standings","13":"tag-ferrari","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-lewis-hamilton","17":"tag-max-verstappen","18":"tag-motorsport","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-top-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topnews","24":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}