F1 – Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Qatar Grand Prix yesterday, a day after being stripped of pole position, as McLaren and Ferrari took their constructors’ title duel down to next weekend’s last race of the season in Abu Dhabi.
The win was the Dutch driver’s ninth of the Formula One season, second in a row in Qatar and the first since he wrapped up his fourth successive title in Las Vegas a week earlier.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc finished runner-up, 6.031 seconds behind, after McLaren’s Lando Norris was handed a surprisingly tough 10 second stop/go penalty for speeding during yellow warning flags.
That dropped the Briton from second, a position seized at the start, and challenging for the lead to 10th at the chequered flag with the consolation of fastest lap for a bonus point to double his meagre score.
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