The 25-lap limitation imposed by Pirelli for its tyres around the punishing Lusail International Circuit brought on a strange Qatar Grand Prix \u2013 but it was made yet-stranger by McLaren\u2019s reaction to a Lap 7 Safety Car.<\/p>\n
Oscar Piastri<\/a> \u2013 polesitter and dominant winner of the previous day\u2019s Sprint race \u2013 looked set for a straightforward victory as he steadily pulled away from Max Verstappen<\/a> in the early laps, with Lando Norris<\/a> stuck behind the Red Bull in third.<\/p>\n But as the seventh lap began, Nico Hulkenberg, in trying to take his Sauber around the outside of Pierre Gasly for ninth place through Turns 1-2, interlocked wheels with the Alpine and spun his heavily damaged car to the side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 25-lap limitation imposed by Pirelli for its tyres around the punishing Lusail International Circuit brought on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-293037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293037","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=293037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}