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Verstappen wins, Gasly 5th! Relive the Qatar Grand Prix with live commentary

Relive the Qatar Grand Prix, twenty-third and penultimate round of the 2024 Formula 1 season, with live commentary on AUTOhebdo.

Published 01/12/2024 à 16:40

Dorian Grangier

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Verstappen wins, Gasly 5th! Relive the Qatar Grand Prix with live commentary

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The Pilots title may have already been acquired by Max Verstappen, the fact remains that there is a championship to finish in this long and intense 2024 season of Formula 1 ! After the lights of Las Vegas, head to the Losail desert for the Qatar GP, the 23rd and penultimate round of the year.

> You can follow the live evolution of the ranking via the official F1 Live Timing, available here.

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57/57 – 🏁 Victory of Max Verstappen in Qatar! Ninth victory of the season for the Dutchman ahead of Charles Leclerc et Oscar piastri ! The Constructors' title will be decided in Abu Dhabi, with a 21-point lead for McLaren before Ferrari ! 

Pierre Gasly finished in an excellent 5th place and allowed Alpine to climb to 6th place in the Constructors category! And Guanyu-Zhou scored the first points for Sauber this season with 8th place! 

57/57 - Last lap! Verstappen is very close to a 9th victory in 2024! 

56/57 – Two more laps to go, it looks good for Verstappen, Gasly and Zhou, who will score four points in one go!

55/57 – Pierre Gasly gives everything he has to defend his 5th place against the attacks of Carlos Sainz, there are three rounds left…

54/57 – 🆙 Lando Norris is now in the points! The McLaren driver easily overtakes Valtteri Bottas and moves up to 10th place. The Briton also has the fastest lap, and could therefore score two points. Kevin Magnussen is 9 seconds ahead of him.

53/57 – 🆙 Alex Albon loses two places at once, facing Valtteri Bottas and Lando Norris! The Briton is just outside the points, in 11th place!

53/57 – Five laps to go, Verstappen leads with a 5″3 advantage over Leclerc and a 6″7 advantage over Piastri. Gasly maintains a 1″2 advantage over Sainz for 5th place.

52/57 – 🆙 New place won by Norris, who overtakes tsunoda and climbs to 12th place. Racing Bulls' gamble with the soft tires did not work.

51/57 – 🆙 Lando Norris has come back to the back of the pack and passes Liam Lawson for 13th place. 10th place, held by Alex Albon, is six seconds back.

50/57 – There are 8 laps left and for the moment, Pierre Gasly is holding his 5th place ahead of Carlos Sainz! Alpine could take back 6th place among the Constructors with a 5-point lead over Haas.

49/57 – Sauber is in an unprecedented position this season: Guanyu Zhou is 8th with less than ten laps to go! The Swiss team could finally unlock its counter this season, in this penultimate Grand Prix of the year!

48/57 -Max Verstappen takes the lead, 4 seconds ahead of Charles Leclerc and 5 seconds ahead of Oscar Piastri.

47/57 – ⚠️ Drive-through penalty for Hamilton, for speeding in the pits!

47/57 - At this stage of the Grand Prix, Ferrari would take 11 points back from McLaren and would be down to just 19 points! Incredible turnaround!

46/57 - Lando Norris applies his penalty and logically comes out last! Pierre Gasly is now 5th!

46/57 – 🔎 This heavy penalty will deprive McLaren of obtaining the title tonight! Charles Leclerc will climb to 2nd place, Norris will fall out of the points!

45/57 – ⚠️ Huge penalty for Lando Norris! 10 seconds of stop-and-go for not slowing down under a yellow flag! He has three laps to comply with his penalty!

44/57 – Lando Norris remains under a second behind Max Verstappen after this first restart lap, the McLaren is looking threatening…

43/57 – 🟢 Third race restart for Max Verstappen! And this time he gains some distance from Lando Norris and takes the lead through the first corner.

42/57 – New Safety Car, and new classification still shaken up after the retirements of Pérez and Hulkenberg.

41/57 – Racing Bulls takes a big gamble and puts soft tires on Lawson and Tsunoda!

41/57 – ❌ It’s retirement for Pérez and Hülkenberg on this Grand Prix of Qatar.

40/57 – 🟠 Safety Car! Perez is stopped after losing his transmission and Hulkenberg is in the gravel! 

40/57 – 🟢 And here we go again! Max Verstappen restarts the pack in front of Lando Norris, they come into contact at the first corner! Gasly also misses and falls to 7th place! And yellow flag in the last sector because Perez is stopped!

39/57 – 🔎 With this ranking, Alpine would move back to 6th place in the Constructors' Championship with a 5-point lead over Has!

39/57 – 🟠 Relegated to one lap, Hamilton and Bottas are allowed to overtake each other to get back on the leader's lap.

38/57 – ⏪️ Relive Lewis Hamilton and Carlos Sainz’s punctures in replay.

38/57 – 🔎 Here is the ranking under this Safety Car with an excellent operation for Pierre Gasly in particular!

37/57 – 💬 "Why did we put on f***ing hard tires?" » : Georeg Russell furious on the radio about his team's choice to once again use hard tires to finish the race.

37/57 – 🟠 The peloton must pass through the pits to allow the marshals to clear the track on the start-finish straight.

36/57 – 🟠 And with these punctures and this Safety Car, the ranking is shaken up in the middle of the pack! Sergio Perez is now 5th ahead of Pierre Gasly! 

35/57 – 🟠 Safety Car! The stewards finally react and neutralize the race! Verstappen, Norris and Leclerc logically go to the pits!

34/57 – ⚠️ Puncture for Lewis Hamilton and Carlos Sainz! The Briton and the Spaniard drove over the rearview mirror which exploded because Valtteri Bottas drove over it!

34/57 – George Russell, who stopped 10 laps ago, still hasn't found the opening on Fernando Alonso...

34/57 – Lando Norris begins to lose a few tenths behind Max Verstappen: the Briton lost 6 tenths on this last lap.

33/57 - Here is the ranking at the 33rd lap of the race! 

32/57 – ⏱️ Max Verstappen accelerates again and sets the best lap in 1'24″413! Meanwhile, Magnussen is driving slower than Gasly despite his stop… the overcut could well work for the Frenchman.

30/57 – 🟡 Passenger yellow flag because there is a rearview mirror of Alex Albon in the middle of the track on the start-finish straight… soon a VSC?

29/57 – George Russell is still stuck behind Fernando Alonso, he is losing a lot of time behind the Spaniard…

28/57 – Pit stop for Magnussen who puts on hard tires. Gasly stays on track and will try the overcut.

28/57 – 💬 "The car doesn't turn!" : George Russell's undercut, blocked behind Fernando Alonso, turns into a nightmare...

27/57 – ⏱️ New lap record of 1'24″537 for Lando Norris! The Briton is still 2 seconds behind Max Verstappen.

26/57 – As things stand, McLaren would score 12 points more than Ferrari… which would not be enough for the British team to be world champions tonight. They need 15 points more than the Scuderia.

24/57 – George Russell pits precisely… and it’s a missed stop in 7 seconds! The Briton tried the undercut, it’s a miss! He starts again 11th with hard tires.

23/57 – Oscar Piastri is still stuck behind George Russell, but with a lower top speed than the Mercedes, the Australian fails to find the opening.

22/57 – 🔎 As a reminder, according to Pirelli, the first stop for a one-stop strategy must take place between the 19th and 25th lap… We are right in this window.

21/57 – ⏱️ The times fall below 1'25! Max Verstappen clocks 1'24″896, but Lando Norris is almost in the same tenth.

20/57 – 🆙 Like Zhou a few laps ago, it's Bottas' turn to overtake Tsunoda! The Finn is 13th.

19/57 – ⏱️ New lap record, this time for Max Verstappen in 1'25″079! The Dutchman still has a lead of around 2 seconds over Lando Norris.

18/57 – In a much better pace than during the Sprint, Pierre Gasly manages to get back into Kevin Magnussen’s exhausts! These are big points for the Constructors’ Championship that are at stake here!

17/57 – Big scare for Oscar Piastri in the last corner! The Australian almost lost the back of his car, but takes advantage of the wide clearances to get back on track.

17/57 – ⏱️ Lando Norris takes back the best lap in 1'25″508! The Briton is back to 1″6 behind Max Verstappen.

16/57 – 🆙 Yuki Tsunoda is in trouble: even Guanyu Zhou manages to overtake the Japanese for 12th place!

15/57 – ⏱️ Lap record for Leclerc in 1'25″660! The Monegasque, 5th, is relegated to 3 seconds behind Piastri.

14/57 – ⚠️ 5 second penalty for Lewis Hamilton for a false start! 

13/57 – 🆙 Very nice overtaking by Pierre Gasly on Yuki Tsunoda at the first corner: the Frenchman is in the points zone!

13/57 – Here is the ranking of this Qatar GP after 12 laps of racing!

12/57 – ⚠️ 10-second penalty for Liam Lawson for a collision with Valtteri Bottas at the restart of the race after the Safety Car!

11/57 – 🆙 The battle rages in the middle of the pack between Haas, Racing Bulls and Alpine ! Magnussen passes Tsunoda for 9th place, and the Japanese is now threatened by Gasly!

10/57 – ❌ After his collision and his penalty, Lance stroll ended up abandoning it in his garage…

10/57 – ⚠️A possible false start by Lewis Hamilton was noted by the stewards…

9/57 – ⏱️ Max Verstappen sets lap records and increases his lead to 2 seconds ahead of Lando Norris.

8/57 – ⚠️ Lance Stroll receives a 10-second penalty for a collision with Alexander Albon, a sanction he immediately applies.

8/57 – Oscar Piastri is on fire at the start of the race: the Australian, winner of the Sprint yesterday, remains in George Russell's DRS zone and threatens the Briton.

7/57 – 8th at the restart, Fernando Alonso falls to 12th place in the standings in two laps! The Spaniard complains of a lack of top speed…

6/57 – Max Verstappen attacks from the first laps and already opens up a gap of more than a second ahead of Lando Norris, who is not in the DRS zone.

6/57 – No investigation into the collision at the first corner between Hülkenberg, Or with and Colapinto.

5/57 – 🟡Liam Lawson spins at the back of the pack at the first corner! The New Zealander starts last.

5/57 – 🟢  The Safety Car pulls out, Max Verstappen gets the pack moving ahead of Lando Norris! And Oscar Piastri surprises Charles Leclerc for 4th place!

5/57 – ⏪️ Relive the chaotic start of this Qatar Grand Prix in replay.

4/57 – 🟠 The marshals are busy cleaning up debris and gravel from the track.

3/57 – 🔎 Here is the ranking after the first three laps of the race, with Max Verstappen in the lead thanks to a great start!

2/57 – ❌ It was Nico Hülkenberg who won Franco Colapinto and Esteban Ocon at the first corner. The Argentinian and the Frenchman give up.

2/57 – 🟠 Lance Stroll and Nico Hülkenberg come through the pits and put on hard tires.

1/57 – 🟠 Safety Car! Franco Colapinto and Esteban Ocon are stopped at the first corner after a collision, while Nico Hülkenberg has suffered a puncture!

1/57 – 🟢 The five lights go out, here we go for this Qatar Grand Prix! Max Verstappen takes the lead ahead of Lando Norris and George Russell! Yellow flag, several cars are in the gravel at the first corner!

0/57 – Author of his fourth pole position in 2024, will George Russell manage to secure his third victory of the season? Answer in 57 laps!

0/57 – 🟢 The formation lap on this 5,380 kilometer track is underway! 

16h58 – 🔎 We now know the tire choices for the start of this Qatar GP! All the drivers will start on medium tires except Nico Hülkenberg, who will start 18th on hard tires.

16h55 – ⚠️ The race has not yet started and one driver is already under investigation: Oscar Piastri Piastri and McLaren will have to see the stewards after the race for a case of “erratic driving” at the exit of the pits. The Australian is said to have overtaken a driver in the pit lane.

16h52 – 🌙 Regarding the weather, obviously, no risk of rain in Losail on this beautiful starry evening. The temperatures are mild: 19°C in the air, 23°C on the track, and a wind of around 2,3m/s.

16h50 – 🔎 In terms of strategies, Pirelli is planning a one-stop race with a start on medium tyres. However, the teams could also adopt a more aggressive two-stop strategy, supposedly slower by the Italian manufacturer.

16h47 – There will also be a big match to follow in the fight for 6th place in the Constructors' Championship between Haas (52 points), Alpine (49 points) and Racing Bulls (46 points). The French team starts with a handicap since its two drivers are starting outside the Top 10: Esteban Ocon will even start from last place, but the Norman remains on the lookout for the slightest opportunity.

16h45 – 🏆 If the Drivers' title is already won by Max Verstappen, the Constructors' title can be decided tonight. McLaren is in a strong position: if the British team scores 15 points more than Ferrari and does not concede more than 22 points to Red Bull, so she will be crowned world champion this Sunday at the Qatar Grand Prix!

16h43 – 🔎 By the way, here is the full explanation of the penalty suffered by the Dutchman after qualifying, he who thought he had secured his first pole position in almost five months.

Max Verstappen penalized, George Russell finally on pole in Qatar

16h41 – 🔎 Here is the starting grid for this Qatar Grand Prix, with George Russell on pole following Max Verstappen's one-place penalty handed out after qualifying on Saturday.

16h40 – 👋 Hello everyone ! Welcome to this live commentary to follow together the Qatar GP, twenty-third round of the 2024 Formula 1 season. The start will be given in a few minutes, at 17:00 p.m.!

Qatar F1 GP Live Commentary

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Dorian Grangier

A young journalist nostalgic for the motorsport of yesteryear. Raised on the exploits of Sébastien Loeb and Fernando Alonso.

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