Get set for the final Dash weekend of the 12 months as System 1 heads to the Center East for the ultimate two weeks of the 2024 season, beginning with the Qatar Grand Prix – dwell on Sky Sports activities F1.
F1 makes its third go to to the Lusail Worldwide Circuit on the outskirts of Doha with the battle for victory among the many grid’s main groups arguably by no means extra aggressive and unpredictable with McLaren, Ferrari, Pink Bull and Mercedes all successful a minimum of as soon as over the previous 5 occasions.
And though the Drivers’ Championship battle is already settled for an additional 12 months after Max Verstappen closed it out in Las Vegas, the combat to be 2024’s constructors’ champions stays very a lot alive coming into the season’s closing fortnight.
McLaren proceed to guide looking for their first groups’ title since 1998 however Ferrari have closed down their benefit to simply 24 factors and, with a bumper of most 59 factors up for grabs in Qatar for a workforce throughout the Dash and essential Grand Prix, every part continues to be to play for.
Reigning champions Pink Bull are a distant 53 factors adrift and should pull a minimum of 9 factors again on their deficit to remain in competition.
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Final 12 months the race happened in October and podium finishers Max Verstappen, Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris in contrast notes within the cool-down room after a gruelling race in excessive warmth and humidity
Conversely, McLaren even have a primary likelihood to shut out the constructors’ title earlier than travelling to subsequent week’s Abu Dhabi season finale. They are going to win that crown for the ninth workforce of their historical past in the event that they end the Qatar weekend with a lead of 45 factors or extra.
Along with an ever-relentless F1 Dash weekend, a busy weekend on observe on the quick Lusail observe is assured by the return of System 2 and F1 Academy for their very own respective penultimate 2024 occasions.
Britain’s Abbi Pulling might clinch the F1 Academy title as Saturday’s first race amid her dominance of this 12 months’s sequence, whereas in F2 the title battle is moderately nearer with 2025 Sauber F1 driver Gabriel Bortoleto simply 4.5 factors forward of Pink Bull-backed Isack Hadjar with two rounds and 4 races to go.
Sky Sports activities F1’s dwell Qatar GP schedule
Thursday November 28
3pm: Drivers’ Press Convention
Friday November 29
9.55am: F1 Academy Apply One
11am: F2 Apply
1pm: Qatar GP Apply One (observe begins at 1.30pm)
2.55pm: F1 Academy Apply Two
4.05pm: F2 Qualifying
5pm: Qatar GP Dash Qualifying (qualifying begins at 5.30pm)*
Saturday November 30
12.10pm: F1 Academy Qualifying
1pm: Qatar GP Dash build-up
2pm: QATAR GP SPRINT
3.30pm: Ted’s Dash Pocket book
4pm: F2 Dash Race
5.15pm: Qatar GP Qualifying build-up
6pm: QATAR GP QUALIFYING
8pm: F1 Academy: Race One
8.45pm: Ted’s Qualifying Pocket book
Sunday December 1
10.55am: F1 Academy Race Two
12.15pm: F2 Function Race
2.30pm: Grand Prix Sunday: Qatar GP build-up
4pm: The QATAR GRAND PRIX
6pm: Chequered Flag: Qatar GP response
7pm: Ted’s Pocket book
*additionally dwell on Sky Sports activities Predominant Occasion
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