ROUND 23: 🇶🇦 Qatar
FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS QATAR GRAND PRIX 2025
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: 1:22.384 Lando Norris (2024)
- 2024 winner: Max Verstappen
Track Map
I’m sure it’s fun to drive and it’s got a lot of technical corners, so qualy later will be pretty exciting. But yeah any track with this much high speed cornering will be a huge problem for the current cars with their huge dirty air sensitivity and massive amount of aero wash. Suzuka is an amazing track but had identical issues for the same reasons.
One of the best qualifying sessions of the season imho, you were totally right!
I think the Vegas wet qualy with full wets randomly being used in the desert takes it for me, but yeah this was also a banger!
Good point. A lot of this year’s races have been pretty dull tyre management exercises but the qualifying sessions have largely been mega the whole season since all teams one lap pace started to converge