ROUND 23: 🇶🇦 Qatar
FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS QATAR GRAND PRIX 2024
Circuit stats
- Circuit name: Lusail International Circuit
- First Grand Prix: 2021
- Number of laps: 57
- Circuit Length: 5.419 km
- Race Distance: 308.611 km
- Lap record: 1:24.319 Max Verstappen (2023)
- 2023 winner: Max Verstappen
I missed the race yesterday and just watched the replay and oh my god what a dumpster fire of a race. Really bad race directing and ridiculously over the top stewarding. Honestly what a shit show of a race.
The fact that no VSC was called for the debris on the track(which was there for so many laps) is almost criminal and then the shitshow with penalties added to the stupidity. We were robbed of a great max vs Norris battle.
Tbf the VSC wouldn’t have helped as the field was pretty spread at the time. And a full safety is quite a big intervention for relatively minor debris, slightly off line. Also, it was about to be when ppl started pitting so throwing a safety car would have given most drivers a free pitstop and potentially killed the race. I don’t like how it was handled but can understand why they did what they did at least.