{"id":91262,"date":"2025-11-29T05:26:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/piastri-shocks-in-qatar-sprint-pole-verstappen-suffers-and-norris-3rd\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T05:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:26:48","slug":"piastri-shocks-in-qatar-sprint-pole-verstappen-suffers-and-norris-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/piastri-shocks-in-qatar-sprint-pole-verstappen-suffers-and-norris-3rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Piastri Shocks in Qatar: Sprint Pole, Verstappen Suffers and Norris 3rd"},"content":{"rendered":"DOHA, Qatar \u2013 Oscar Piastri proved his worth by securing pole position for Saturday’s sprint race at the Qatar Grand Prix, marking his first top spot since the end of August.\n\nThe championship leader, Lando Norris, achieved third place in qualifying, while Max Verstappen, from Red Bull, placed in sixth position.\n\nPiastri clocked an impressive lap, beating George Russell of Mercedes by 0.032 seconds with his last lap to secure the first position on the grid.\n\nNorris, his teammate and rival for the title, went off track on the last corner, which relegated him to third place, behind Russell.\n\n

Although Saturday’s sprint race offers a maximum of eight points and only one point difference between each position, Piastri’s pole position represents a long-awaited return to his best form.<\/p>\n\nPiastri seemed the favorite to win the title when he won the Dutch Grand Prix from pole at the end of August, opening a 34-point lead over Norris. However, since then, he has only managed one podium.\n\n\n

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Oscar Piastri tom\u00f3 la pole sprint por delante de George Russell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nThe Red Bull driver, Verstappen, was looking to continue his attempt for the title, getting closer in the standings after McLaren’s double disqualification in Las Vegas.\n\nHowever, he seemed unhappy with his car’s setup and went off track in SQ3 at a crucial moment.\n\n\n

“This damn car, man; it’s bouncing like an idiot,” Verstappen complained.<\/p>Max Verstappen<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n

Upon finishing the classification, Red Bull’s boss, Laurent Mekies, told the reigning champion via radio: “We have work to do, but the weekend is long, friend”.<\/p>\n\nVerstappen finished the session in sixth place, although it is unlikely that he will face resistance from his teammate, Yuki Tsunoda, who surprisingly qualified ahead of him in fifth place. Fernando Alonso, from Aston Martin, was the highlight of the session.\n\nKimi Antonelli, the Mercedes rookie, will start in seventh place.\n\nCarlos Sainz and Alex Albon, from Williams, qualified on either side of Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari, who finished in ninth place.\n\nThe first qualifying session, SQ1, revealed a moment of tension between the teams competing for the title, with the stewards briefly analyzing whether Verstappen had hindered Norris’ lap at Turn 16.\n\n\n

“Verstappen simply didn’t get out of my way,” Norris reported. “It cost me the lap.”<\/p>Lando Norris<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMcLaren was not impressed, and race engineer Will Joseph told Norris: “On every lap, he pulls over immediately after completing his lap. This time he decided to stay out and screw you over. Yes, we saw it, mate.”\n\n“Yes, it’s obvious,” replied Norris.\n\nThe commissioners did not investigate the incident for long before deciding that there would be no further investigation.\n\nOutside of the title fight, there was little drama, although Lewis Hamilton’s disappointing debut year at Ferrari continued with his elimination in SQ1.\n\n\n

“Ah, man, the car is not going to go any faster”, said the seven-time world champion over the radio.<\/p>Lewis Hamilton<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nHamilton has already qualified the 2025 season as the worst of his successful career.\n\nThe 40-year-old pilot’s mood didn’t improve much when he arrived at the press area for his television interviews.\n\nWhen asked if the car was difficult to drive, Hamilton replied: “Same as always.” Then he was asked if he could take something positive for the next day. “The weather is nice,” he replied.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DOHA, Qatar \u2013 Oscar Piastri proved his worth by securing pole position for Saturday’s sprint race at the Qatar Grand Prix, marking his first top spot since the end of August. The championship leader, Lando Norris, achieved third place in qualifying, while Max Verstappen, from Red Bull, placed in sixth position. Piastri clocked an impressive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[436,443,176,690],"class_list":{"0":"post-91262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-lando-norris","9":"tag-max-verstappen","10":"tag-oscar-piastri","11":"tag-qatar"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}