POWER RANKINGS: Who dazzled in the desert during a thrilling Qatar Sprint weekend?

On one other day, Valtteri Bottas might have joined Zhou within the factors and made it a double rating for Kick Sauber. After some encouraging early-weekend tempo, contact with RB’s Liam Lawson on race day pressured him broad and broken his automotive’s flooring – permitting Zhou to slide forward and giving his workforce mate the strategic benefit. In Bottas’ personal phrases, the timing of the Security Automotive “couldn’t have been worse” and agonisingly left him P11 on the flag.

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Lacking out

Lando Norris simply missed out on the highest half of the Energy Rankings area for Qatar after a 10-second cease/go penalty for failing to sluggish beneath double waved yellow flags dashed his victory hopes and consigned him to a P10 end – costing McLaren some factors of their constructors’ push.