Oscar Piastri topped sprint shootout qualifying at Formula 1's 2023 Qatar Grand Prix, which became an intra-McLaren battle as a track limits issue hampered Max Verstappen's run to third.
Lando Norris seemed to be on course to beat his team-mate before blowing his final lap with an error at the final corner. The session was dominated again by the focus being on track limits following the issues in Friday's grand prix qualifying and changes to the Losail track following Pirelli discovering repeated high-speed kerb impacts were damaging its tyres.
Sargeant ended up without a representative time on the board at the foot of the pack in the second Williams after his initial efforts were also excluded for track limits violations at Turn 13, with a similar situation also impacting Zhou in Q2. The session was preceded by a 10-minute effective warm-up session so the drivers could sample the new track limits at Turns 13 and 14 – painted kerbing lines onto the asphalt that reduce the track width by 80cm for the length of the kerbs at those points.
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