oscar Piastre won the short heat of the weekend in Lusail held this Saturday thanks to a great collaboration with Lando Norris, who after leading the entire test, decided to walk away from the finish line to hand the victory to his teammate Oscar to help him in the F1 World Championship classification after the Qatar GP sprint race.
Norris In this way, he wants to return the victory in the sprint that Piastri gave him a few weeks ago in Brazil, and if it happens, allow the Australian to add another point further than Carlos Sainz in the fight for fourth position in the F1 World Cup classification after the Qatar GP sprint race.
Piastri added 8 points, Norris got 7 in 2nd place, Russell added 6 points in the third position and Carlos Sainz earned 5 points in fourth placeanother of the 4 taken by Leclerc, who finished 5th against Hamilton (6th, 3 points), Hülkenberg (7th, 2 points) and Verstappen (8th, 1 point).
So, Piastre He added three more points than Sainz to put himself 12 behind the Spaniard in the absence of this Sunday’s race in Qatar and the Grand Prix ffinal to Abu Dhabi.
The team even told Norris not to miss Piastri because Russell was so close that his double could be in jeopardy. key to the fight for the Constructors’ World Championship against Ferrari. But Lando executed the maneuver perfectly in the final meters to take McLaren’s double in the sprint event and help Piastri.
The F1 World Championship classification after the Qatar GP sprint race:
- Max Verstappen (Ned/Red Bull) 404 points
- Lando Norris (GBR/McLaren) 347 points
- Charles Leclerc (Mon/Ferrari) 323 points
- Oscar Piastri (Aus/McLaren) 276 points
- Carlos Sainz (Esp/Ferrari) 264 points
- George Russell (GBR/Mercedes) 223 points
- Lewis Hamilton (GBR/Mercedes) 211 points
- Sergio Pérez (Mex/Red Bull) 152 points
- Fernando Alonso (Esp/Aston Martin) 62 points
- Nico Hülkenberg (Ale/Haas) 37 points
- Yuki Tsunoda (Jap/RB) 30 points
- Pierre Gasly (Fra/Alpine) 26 points
- Lance Stroll (Can/Aston Martin) 24 points
- Esteban Ocon (Fra/Alpine) 23 points
- Kevin Magnussen (Din/Haas) 14 points
- Alexander Albon (Tai/Williams) 12 points
- Daniel Ricciardo (Aus/RB) 12 points
- Oliver Bearman (GBR/Ferrari and Haas) 7 points
- Franco Colapinto (ARG/Williams) 5 points
- Liam Lawson (NZL/RB) 4 points
- Guanyu Zhou (Chn/Kick Sauber) 0 points
- Logan Sargeant (USA/Williams) 0 points
- Valtteri Bottas (Fin/Kick Sauber) 0 points
General of the F1 Constructors’ World Cup after the Qatar sprint:
- McLaren 623
- Ferrari 593
- Red Bull 556
- Mercedes 434
- Aston Martin 86
- Haas 52
- Alpine 49
- RB 46
- Williams 17
- Sauber 0
Source: La Verdad
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