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Live: McLaren ‘missed a trick’ after early safety car confusion

1h agoSun 30 Nov 2025 at 4:01pm

Live: F1 Qatar Grand Prix

Just nowSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:29pm

Lando Norris finishes fourth!

Just nowSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:29pm

Carlos Sainz third!

Just nowSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:29pm

Oscar Piastri is second

1m agoSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:28pm

Verstappen wins Qatar GP!

1m agoSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:28pm

Final Lap: Verstappen cruising home

1m agoSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:28pm

Lap 56/57: LANDO NORRIS OVERTAKES ANTONELLI

Oh Kimi Antonilli makes a big error!

He runs wide and Lando Norris does not need a second invitation!

That could be huge, an extra two points in the championship gifted to Lando Norris!

4m agoSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:25pm

Lap 55/57: Battle for third will go down to the wire though

Sainz is struggling with that understeer.

Antonelli is chasing him down and is not far away from getting into a DRS zone.

Can Norris make the most of this closing of Antonelli on Sainz?

He’s running out of time to do it.

5m agoSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:24pm

I don’t think he’s closing enough

Oscar is powering to bridge the gap. This will be close at the end!

– Brian

In fact, I know he’s not.

Verstappen has just been extraordinary in this race.

His second half of the season has been immense.

6m agoSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:23pm

Lap 54/57: Verstappen streaking ahead

There is no battle for the lead in this race.

Max Verstappen is 12 seconds ahead of Oscar Piastri, who is safe in second, 12 seconds ahead of Sainz.

Antonelli is a second further back and Lando Norris is inside a second to the Italian.

8m agoSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:21pm

Lap 51/57: Norris can’t get past Antonelli

Brilliant stuff from the Italian, who is just holding the distance to Norris.

Norris is struggling enormously to close this gap and he is surrendering so many points in the title race as a result!

BUT MORE DRAMA!

Carlos Sainz calls the radio in a panic saying that he’s got understeer on the right corners and thinks that something has fallen off the car!

12m agoSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:17pm

Lap 48/57: Norris takes a second out of Antonelli

The championship leader is fighting for his life here.

If things stay the way they are, Verstappen will head to Abu Dhabi just 10 points behind Norris in second spot.

He was 104 points off the lead in August.

Astonishing.

15m agoSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:14pm

Lap 47/57: Lando Norris has a moment!

Awkward stuff for Lando Norris, who is really struggling out there to hold any sort of pace.

Can he catch Antonelli? Carlos Sainz does not think so on the team radio.

16m agoSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:13pm

Lap 46/57: BIG SPIN BY ALONSO!

Huge spin that Fernando Alonso somehow manages to hold onto and remain on track.

17m agoSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:12pm

Lap 45/57: IN COMES NORRIS!

Big call from McLaren.

A slow, 2.7 second stop that could see Lando Norris fall to fifth!

AND HE DOES!

Norris HAS to overtake Kimi Antonelli and Carlos Sainz if he is to stay in touch with his teammate and Max Verstappen!

It’s setting things up beautifully for the last race of the season next weekend!

19m agoSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:10pm

Lap 43/57: Oscar Piastri comes into the pits

Piastri comes in with a 1.8 second stop. That’s brilliant.

Piastri is looking to chase Verstappen down, on a fresher set of tyres.

Norris is struggling to hold out Verstappen, who is all of a sudden within a second of the McLaren.

If Norris can hold off Verstappen a bit then he will be helping Piastri win the race, to the detriment of his own hopes for the title!

He does have seven laps to play with.

Norris can’t pit yet though, because he’ll be released after Carlos Sainz.

22m agoSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:07pm

Lap 41/57: Piastri wants to change tyres

Here comes the flexibility in the strategy.

Piastri is struggling on those tyres and is not making enough of a difference to the lead that Verstappen will have once the pit stops are taken.

He wants to change and is debating that at the moment.

“I don’t see a better option at the moment,” Piastri says.

As he is debating, there’s a big moment for the Australian.

Surely that makes the decision for McLaren.

26m agoSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:03pm

Lap 39/57: Piastri can pit and rejoin behind Verstappen

And, crucially, ahead of Carlos Sainz.

So now, the only thing standing between him and a race win, will be Max Verstappen.

He is holding his pace and is just two seconds behind Norris as things stand.

Verstappen is definitely in the box seat.

28m agoSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:01pm

Lap 37/57: Norris has a bit moment on turn 14

He’s done well to keep it together there, Lando Norris.

He just lost shape a bit on the exit of turn 14 and had to really work the steering wheel to say on track.

He did so but has radioed to ask the team to check for damage.

It seems it’s OK.

29m agoSun 30 Nov 2025 at 5:00pm

Lap 37/57: Change of strategy for McLaren

“We need to weigh up what the best idea is, in terms of trying to get a safety car or just beating him on pace,” Piastri says on the team radio.

I assume he’s talking about Verstappen, because at the moment the gap is eight seconds – and it needs to be a lot larger.

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