On one other day, Valtteri Bottas may have joined Zhou within the factors and made it a double rating for Kick Sauber. After some encouraging early-weekend tempo, contact with RB’s Liam Lawson on race day compelled him large and broken his automobile’s ground – permitting Zhou to slide forward and giving his workforce mate the strategic benefit. In Bottas’ personal phrases, the timing of the Security Automobile “couldn’t have been worse” and agonisingly left him P11 on the flag.
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Lacking out
Lando Norris simply missed out on the highest half of the Energy Rankings discipline for Qatar after a 10-second cease/go penalty for failing to gradual underneath double waved yellow flags dashed his victory hopes and consigned him to a P10 end – costing McLaren some factors of their constructors’ push.