Max Verstappen, who was “crowned” three times champion yesterday, won the Qatar race, and McLaren can once again celebrate a double podium finish: Oscar Piastri – with the best result of his career – took second place, and Lando Norris came in third. Let’s see how the three rated themselves after the competition started!
Max Verstappen (Red Bull) – 1st place
“The first stage was the tough part of the race. After that I got through it, and so did the tyres. But the McLaren was still very fast today, so I had to push. It was a very tough race. It was one of the toughest. It’s up there in the top five toughest races I have. Of course we will celebrate the world championship title, but there are still competitions we want to win. It is good if we can push it as long as possible, but it would not be good if we do that in the future because mandatory wheel changes are required. You have to design cars that can be propelled by gas “Ground. We can’t do that now, even though our car is very good. We will see what we can improve in the future.”
Oscar Piastri (McLaren) – second place
“I thought you were going to say I was going to get a 5-second penalty because of the track limits… I actually messed it up once! I’m very happy now. It took the first turn… but that was the plan! The car’s pace was impressive. The hardest race of my life! Lando only stayed standing during the interviews because he had to. It was very hot, and because of the three changes, we went almost all the way on the floor gas. We did like 57 laps in qualifying and I can feel it. It was a race “Really good and I’m happy the tires held up. I’m happy with this second place and another title.”
Lando Norris (McLaren) – third place
“It was a very good race from start to finish. I had a bug yesterday, but it works now. I paid more attention now. I had a good pace throughout the race. We were very fast, our car was probably the fastest. It was very hot, the race The whole… By the way, the team stopped for 1.8 seconds! The three stops made the race more difficult physically, as it was possible to push harder. And in the last stage, we used the ground gas. It was very difficult. One of the most difficult races in recent times Congratulations to Oscar, it went well. And of course congratulations to Max too!
