{"id":505428,"date":"2025-11-30T14:08:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=505428"},"modified":"2025-11-30T14:08:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:08:38","slug":"verstappen-triumphs-at-the-qatar-gp-and-closes-the-gap-to-norris","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/verstappen-triumphs-at-the-qatar-gp-and-closes-the-gap-to-norris\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen triumphs at the Qatar GP and closes the gap to Norris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen secured his 7<sup>th<\/sup> win in the current F1 season today at the Qatar Grand Prix and overcame Oscar Piastri into 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place, only 12 points behind the leader, Lando Norris. Oscar is 16 points behind his McLaren team-mate with only 1 race left until the end of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Piastri finished 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, while Carlos Sainz secured the last place on the podium today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MAX VERSTAPPEN WINS THE QATAR GRAND PRIX!!!<\/p>\n<p>The Red Bull driver will fight for the title at the season finale! \ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/QatarGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#QatarGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s8K5drqmEp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/s8K5drqmEp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1995183262751236391?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The current leader in the championship finished 4<sup>th<\/sup> as he added 2 points that can be crucial after a late pass on Kimi Antonelli, who crossed the finish line 5<sup>th<\/sup>, George Russel was 6<sup>th<\/sup>, while Fernando Alonso finished 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 1 place higher than he began the race.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen shared after his triumph that it was an incredible race for him and his team: \u201cWe made the right calls as we entered the box under that safety car, and in the end, that was the key moment that allowed me to win today. I\u2019m very happy to top the Qatar GP and to be able to fight for the championship until the end, as I will do everything possible to win Abu Dhabi also.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;We will fight to the end&quot; \ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/QatarGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#QatarGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redbullracing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@redbullracing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OxX7MZhPs9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/OxX7MZhPs9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1995191306432200812?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen secured his 7th win in the current F1 season today at the Qatar Grand Prix and overcame Oscar Piastri into 2nd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":505429,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17288,21681],"news_category":[16921,16715],"gn_keywords":[17971,21682],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Max won in Qatar, and everything will be decided in Abu Dhabi.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505431,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505428\/revisions\/505431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505428"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=505428"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=505428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}