5 Winners and 5 Losers from Qatar – Who impressed in the penultimate race of the season?

Losers: Williams

Williams’ dreadful run continued into Qatar as they suffered but extra harm inside moments of the lights going out, as Franco Colapinto was collected by Ocon after the Frenchman was hit by Hulkenberg.

Colapinto retired the automotive for his second DNF in three races. It was the group’s seventh crash within the final 4 Grand Prix weekends.

Group mate Alex Albon was within the high 10 within the closing levels however ran out of tyres and fell again to fifteenth on the chequered flag after choosing up a time penalty for a conflict with Kevin Magnussen.

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Winner: Pierre Gasly

Pierre Gasly continued his wealthy vein of kind with an outstanding drive to fifth from eleventh for his second top-five end in three Grands Prix.

It reveals how far Alpine have come from race one in Bahrain earlier this 12 months, the place they have been woefully chubby and locked out the again row, that Gasly was capable of defend from Ferrari’s Sainz within the closing levels in Qatar.