Max Verstappen (Red Bull) Sets Pace in First Practice for Qatar Grand Prix: Can He Secure Third Consecutive F1 World Championship?

2023-10-06 17:03:49

Max Verstappen (Red Bull), which this Saturday might mathematically become Formula 1 world champion for the third consecutive year, it was the fastest, in the first and only free practice for the Qatar Grand Prix -the seventeenth of the World Cup-, which is disputed, with sprin formatyou, in the Lusail circuit; where the spanish Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) scored the second half.

In its best returnVerstappen, who has just turned 26, covered the 5,419 meters of the newly paved track of the circuit on the outskirts of Doha, where It is very hot and there is strong windin one minute, 27 seconds and 428 thousandths, 334 less than Sainz and 481 over his teammate, the Monegasque Charles Leclerc.

Qualifying for Sunday’s race – which will be completely at night and with artificial light – will start at 15 hours Eastern USA.

In the fourth of the weekends of the year with a sprint format, this Saturday the reduced timing (the ‘sprint shootout’), which will organize the grid for the short test (hours later and regarding a third of Sunday’s route, that is: 19 laps and almost 103 kilometers), which will presumably decide the World Championship in favor of Verstappen, that It would be enough for him to be sixth to not wait for the Sunday race.

In the only training session of the weekend, which started with the sun and concluded at night – hardly significant, as it did not coincide with the time of either the qualifying, the sprint, or the race – on a fairly dirty track with 16 corners ( six to the left), most of them fast, no particularly notable incidents were recorded.

This weekend it will be played with the renewed format which has already been used in the past GP of Azerbaijan, Austria and Belgium of this year: with qualifying today for the Sunday grid and a second classification to be held on Saturday for the short sprint race.

This modality allows Verstappen to have the possibility in the preview of seal his consecration before Sunday’s race since the score awarded by Saturday’s sprint might even crown it with a sext place.

Start the
Q2 of the
F1 Qatar GP 2023 regarding him
Losail Circuit!

16º |
Sargeant

17º |
Stroll

18º |
Lawson

19º |
Magnussen

20º |
Zhou

Verstappen was the one that set the best time with used soft tires, 1 tenth faster than
Norris.
Alonso has set the 3rd fastest time, making it clear that he adapts like no one else to the difficult conditions, because his teammate,
Stroll, has not made the cut. For its part,
Sainz without much effort he has passed 9th.

Let’s go with Q2!

And there will be one last heart-stopping lap! Everyone ready to attack!

And many of the favorites in the pits, all quite calm. Although the track continues to improve with every passing minute.

We will have a very interesting session because the asphalt is improving a lot and in addition, the limits of the track are easily crossed and any mistake can cancel your lap.

Start the
Q1 of the
F1 Qatar GP 2023 regarding him
Losail Circuit!

The engines roar in
Losail! In 5 minutes the competition will begin!
Q1!

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There will be 2 classifications and Saturday, the sprint day, will be independent of what happens in the rest of the weekend.


Friday:
Free 1 and classification. The qualy will be Q1, Q2 and Q3 and will order the starting positions for Sunday’s race.


Saturday: ‘shoot-out’ classification and Saturday Sprint Race.


Domingo: It will be as always and 25 points will be distributed for the winner and 1 point for the fastest lap if they are in the Top-10.

We are going to explain all the news that the
F1 at the 2023 Qatar GP. The first thing of all is to know what the traditional race weekend where a sprint took place was like:


Friday:
Free 1 and classification. The ‘qualy’ serves to organize the starting grid for Saturday’s sprint race.


Saturday: Free practice 2 and sprint race. The final order of the race serves to establish the grid for Sunday.


Domingo: Long race.

1. Red Bull – 623 points

2. Mercedes – 205 points

3. Ferrari – 285 points

4. Aston Martin – 221 points

5. McLaren – 172 points

6. Alpine – 84 points

7. Williams – 21 points

8. Haas – 12 points

9. Alfa Romeo – 10 points

10. AlphaTauri – 5 points

1.
Max Verstappen – 400 points

2.
Sergio
Pérez – 223 points

3.
Lewis Hamilton – 190 points

4. Fernando Alonso – 174 points
5. Carlos Sainz – 150 points

6.
Charles
Leclerc – 135 points

7.
Lando
Norris – 115 points

8.
George
Russell – 115 points.

9.
Oscar
Plates – 57 points.

10.
Lance
Stroll – 47 points.

11.
Pierre
Gasly – 46 points.

12.
Esteban
Ocon – 38 points.

13.
Alex
Albon – 21 points.

14.
Nico
Hulkenberg – 9 points.

15
Valtteri
Bottas – 6 points.

16.
Zhou
Guanyu – 4 points.

17.
Yuki
Tsunoda – 3 points.

18.
Kevin
Magnussen – 3 points.19.
Liam
Lawson – 2 points.

20.
Logan
Sargeant – 0 points.21.
Nyck De Vries – 0 points.

22.
Daniel Ricciardo – 0 points.

Max Verstappen has everything in mind for
win his third F1 World Championship title at the next Qatar GP. The Dutch driver won the
Japanese GPadded the point of the fastest lap and saw how the second in the
worldYour partner
‘Checo’ Pérez, abandoned following another race to forget. That allowed
Max will reach 400 points and increase his advantage in the
2023 F1 World Championship classification following the Japanese GP up to an almost definitive margin of 177 points with respect to ‘
Czech‘.

Another important point to take into account is that of penalties. How will they be applied? We explain them below:


Penalty imposed on Friday for violations committed on Friday: They will be applied on the grid for Sunday’s race.


Penalty for changing elements: It will be applied on Sunday’s grid.


Penalty for violation during short qualifying on Saturday: It will be applied for the sprint race.


The cars will go to parc ferme following Friday’s qualifying. Whoever skips this parc ferme will start from the pit lane in both races, the sprint and Sunday’s.

McLaren Racing
announced this Thursday the signing of the young Brazilian
Gabriel Bortoleto
current champion of
Formula 3 World Championship
and pilot of the representation agency
Fernando Alonso
(A14 Management), to be part of the pilot development program of the team
Woking
.

Friday

Classification: 19:00 hours.

Saturday

Sprint Race Classification: 2:00 p.m.

Sprint Race: 7:30 pm.

Domingo

Carrera: 19:00 hours.

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It has a length of 5,380 meters, with a total of 16 curves, 6 of them left and 10 right, and only one straight, the main one.

The
FIA announced this week that it approved the request for application of
Andretti Formula Racing LLCproperty of the legendary
Michael Andrettito enter the
Formula 1 in 2026.
Andretti Thus, he surpassed the first part of the process and moves on to the next stage to fulfill the objective he already set months ago.

Fernando Alonso has always shown great respect for
Max
Verstappen. When the Dutchman made his debut in F1 Free Practice in Suzuka 2014, the Spaniard was one of the few who defended him in the face of the controversy generated by his lack of experience and his precocity. And over the years, the Spanish and the Dutch have always been close. On this occasion, in the run-up to
F1 Qatar GPtwo days following
Max Verstappen can achieve his third title
F1 consecutive (he can achieve it in the sprint race on Saturday), the Asturian was asked where he would place a talent like
Max Verstappen among the best in history.

I
They encourage more audiences on Fridays and Saturdays, and in turn, increase television audiences on those two days.

And if that was not enough,
F1 wants to reduce free practice as much as possible,
where teams can test their cars and draw conclusions for qualifying and the race. Fewer hours of practice should mean a greater challenge for everyone: they should arrive with less certainties and more doubts at the ‘qualifying’ and the race and that can mean a greater probability of surprises and uncertainty.

CHRONICLE P1 GP QATAR F1 ✍???? | “Under these conditions, my father would be fast,” he said on the radio.
Carlos Sainz at the beginning of the first free practice sessions of the
F1 Qatar GP 2023. He was right and it is just a clear example of how delicate the asphalt was, how much all the teams will suffer to find the right adjustments to their cars for today’s classification and how unrepresentative it is. might be the times seen in this first session, in which he dominated
Max Verstappen with its final time marked with soft rubber.

There will be 2 classifications and Saturday, the sprint day, will be independent of what happens in the rest of the weekend.


Friday:
Free 1 and classification. The qualy will be Q1, Q2 and Q3 and will order the starting positions for Sunday’s race.


Saturday: ‘shoot-out’ classification and Saturday Sprint Race.


Domingo: It will be as always and 25 points will be distributed for the winner and 1 point for the fastest lap if they are in the Top-10.

We are going to explain all the news that the
F1 at the 2023 Qatar GP. The first thing of all is to know what the traditional race weekend where a sprint took place was like:


Friday:
Free 1 and classification. The ‘qualy’ serves to organize the starting grid for Saturday’s sprint race.


Saturday: Free practice 2 and sprint race. The final order of the race serves to establish the grid for Sunday.


Domingo: Long race.

We continue with all of you to broadcast to you up to the minute the classification session of the
Formula 1 Qatar Grand Prixin it
Losail Circuit which will start at 7:00 p.m.

Soon we will share the chronicle of this
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Verstappen was the one who set the best time with soft tires, 3 tenths faster than
Sainz with soft
Leclerc It was the third also with soft, and
Alonso 4th with means. This gives a lot of hope because it has only been 4 tenths away from
Max. Clearly ahead of the
Mercedes!

The classification may be tighter than we assumed.

and both
Ferrari Now they come out with the soft ones.
McLaren,
Mercedes y
Aston Martin They are not going to get soft.

We also see how the entire lower part of the grill has put the soft ones, with
Sargeant as the best placed.

And the times are already improving, although without going below 1:28.

It is already the number one team in the constructors’ world championship, waiting to see
Max Verstappen become three-time champion
Qatar.
Red Bull, in 2022, sold 11,582 million cans per year of its energy drink. It invests a quarter of its income in sports sponsorships. And the
Formula One It is one of its great showcases. The empire is now led by the founder’s son,
Mark Mateschitz31 years old,
the richest man in Austria, with an estimated personal fortune of around 20 billion euros.

It looks like a skating rink with so much sand!

Gasly For example, he has not wanted to go out yet, because according to him “they are not going to learn anything with these conditions. Let’s let the rest clean the track.”

It is riding very slowly for that reason and because of the sand on the track, 9″ slower than in free practice last year.

Very hot in
Qatar, with 35º ambient temperature and 41º on the asphalt. What hell for the pilots!

The first free training sessions of the season begin!
F1 Qatar GP 2023 regarding him
Losail Circuit!

Friday

Free 1: 3:30 pm.

Classification: 19:00 hours.

Saturday

Sprint Race Classification: 2:00 p.m.

Sprint Race: 7:30 pm.

Domingo

Carrera: 19:00 hours.

One of the news of the week in F1 was
the announcement by the FIA ​​of the approval of Andretti’s candidacy to become the
11th team on the grid in 2026 and the entry of said candidacy to the second part of the process. The teams, following a statement from the American structure published months ago in which
Michael Andretti showed his willingness to disembark in the
F1 next to
Cadillacwere once morest this option.

Carlos Sainz don’t expect this to be a good weekend for
Ferrari in it
F1 Qatar GP 2023. After that your
SF23 would be surpassed in
Suzuka by
Red Bull y McLarenalthough improving in terms of degradation and holding the type with a constant rhythm once morest the
MercedesFerrari is expected to experience a complicated event in
Qatar.

1. Red Bull – 623 points

2. Mercedes – 205 points

3. Ferrari – 285 points

4. Aston Martin – 221 points

5. McLaren – 172 points

6. Alpine – 84 points

7. Williams – 21 points

8. Haas – 12 points

9. Alfa Romeo – 10 points

10. AlphaTauri – 5 points

1.
Max Verstappen – 400 points

2.
Sergio
Pérez – 223 points

3.
Lewis Hamilton – 190 points

4. Fernando Alonso – 174 points
5. Carlos Sainz – 150 points

6.
Charles
Leclerc – 135 points

7.
Lando
Norris – 115 points

8.
George
Russell – 115 points.

9.
Oscar
Plates – 57 points.

10.
Lance
Stroll – 47 points.

11.
Pierre
Gasly – 46 points.

12.
Esteban
Ocon – 38 points.

13.
Alex
Albon – 21 points.

14.
Nico
Hulkenberg – 9 points.

15
Valtteri
Bottas – 6 points.

16.
Zhou
Guanyu – 4 points.

17.
Yuki
Tsunoda – 3 points.

18.
Kevin
Magnussen – 3 points.19.
Liam
Lawson – 2 points.

20.
Logan
Sargeant – 0 points.21.
Nyck De Vries – 0 points.

22.
Daniel Ricciardo – 0 points.

Max Verstappen razed. He was unrivaled once once more this year. He returned to normality on the legendary circuit of
Suzuka behind the wheel of his
Red Bull RB19 to crush all his rivals with immense ease. He
Japanese GP It was the perfect example of what this season has been for the Dutchman, a complete ride.
Max won once morest McLaren’s double on the podium, with Norris 2nd, 20” behind the Dutchman and Piastri in third positiondebuting on the F1 podium.

????️ Verstappen sweeps Japan and leaves the title seen for sentencing

He
F1 Qatar GP It is the fourth of the year that will be held with the sprint weekend format of the 6 that will be held throughout the current 2023 academic year.
F1. Therefore,
This weekend it will be held with the renewed format that was already used in the past GPs of Azerbaijan, Austria and Belgium of this year: with qualifying today for the Sunday grid and a second classification to be held on Saturday for the short sprint race.

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Very good morning friends of
World Deportivo!

Welcome to the live broadcast of the first and only free practice sessions of the F1 Qatar Grand Prix. The action returns following the
Japanese GP on the Losail circuit. One of the most interesting routes in the world returns
world and with the hope of seeing once more
Carlos Sainz y
Fernando Alonso on the podium and who knows if with that 33rd victory under his arm.

All prepared! Let’s start!

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