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Verstappen eyes title glory; Piastri backs himself to go back-to-back: Qatar Grand Prix burning questionsOctober 6th, 2023 12:27 pmMax Verstappen arrives as the dominant championship leader and with his first chance to seal his third title, which would put him into the truly rarefied air of Formula 1’s elite.
Qatar has pulled out all stops for F1 too, heavily upgrading circuit infrastructure for the sport’s return in a way that must have MotoGP wondering what it had to have done to get similar treatment over nearly two decades of loyalty. “If it’s Saturday or Sunday, I don’t think it matters a lot,” he said, per the BBC. “It’s always nice to win it at the first possible opportunity.
It’s an ideal track to try to back up the team’s first double-podium finish of the year, being similar in demands to the high-speed Suzuka Circuit. One thing the Aussie will need to work on to lock in another spray of the champagne is his race pace, having been well off teammate Lando Norris’s pace on Sunday in Japan.
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