Decisions at the Qatar Grand Prix means the Constructors’ battle will go to the final race.
In the midst of the fight for the Constructors’ Championship at the Qatar GP, it was not the on-track battles or the race pace that were the protagonists but Rui Marques, the new FIA F1 race director, and his team of stewardsand Ferrari with those mistakes from Race Control benefited one of the two teams clearly ahead of the finale in Abu Dhabi.and having put the safety of the drivers at risk in between that, it is undoubtedly Ferrari who benefited the most from all the chaos generated.
At this point, George Russell had already disappeared from the equation as his +7.0s slow pit stop made him fall behind traffic after rejoining the track and without getting the hard tyre into temperature, he lost any chance of regaining the podium position he held before his pit stop. Sainz was the first driver to encounter this disaster without any clear indication on track. Race Direction endangered the safety of all the drivers, but especially in this case that of Sainz and Hamilton by not pressing the Safety Car button early on at the end of lap 29 before any driver ran over the wing mirror.
Finally, the Safety Car was deployed on lap 35. In this way Verstappen, Norris and Leclerc were able to pit with the race neutralised and benefit from a time advantage before the pack regrouped.
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