The Qatar Grand Prix program continued with sprint qualifying, where there was no big news under the sun: Lando Norris took the pole in sprint qualifying!
After the first laps in SQ1, Lando Norris and George Russell took turns at the top, followed by Scuderia Ferrari duo Charles Leclerc. After the final fast laps of the stage, Norris maintained his lead and found himself at the top, while the dropouts - in the case of the first name, we can say without any doubt that it was not a surprise - included Sergio Perez, Yuki Tsunoda, Esteban Ocon, Guanyu Zhou and Franco Colapinto.
After the first attempts in SQ2, the previous tendency remained, i.e. McLaren was pushing hard forward. With the difference that now Oscar Piasti was in the lead, just ahead of Leclerc and Norris. In the end, he maintained this dominant position, only George Russell was able to intervene, which created the trio of Norris, Russell, Piasti. However, Liam Lawson, Fernando Alonso, Alexander Albon, Valtteri Bottas and Lance Stroll did not have a continuation, they were able to start preparing for the main part of the program on Saturday in time.
There were not many unanswered questions left in SQ3: Lando Norris and McLaren quickly closed this stage of the weekend and with clarity secured pole position ahead of George Russell and Oscar Piastre.
