Qatar Grand Prix: When and where to watch after Verstappen’s hat-trick | Formula 1

Verstappen has won three titles in Formula One since 2021, when he won a selected battle against seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton, and he also won it in 2022 after defeating Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc. To date, the class’s newest trio has claimed 13 victories, ten pole positions and 15 podium finishes.

The trio comes with five races to go before the end of the season. This equals the number achieved by Nigel Mansell in 1992, who won his only title five rounds before the end of the tournament. He even repeated Nelson Piquet’s feat by becoming the first Formula 1 champion to be crowned on a Saturday in the past 40 years – the Brazilian did so in 1981 and 1983 because the Las Vegas and South African Grands Prix, the scene of his achievements, were on a Saturday.

Sunday 8 October
– Race: at two in the afternoon

– RBR: Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez
Ferrari: Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz
– Mercedes: Lewis Hamilton and George Russell
– Alps: Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly
McLaren: Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri
– Alfa Romeo: Valtteri Bottas and Guanyu Zhou
– Aston Martin: Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll
– Haas: Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hulkenberg
– AlphaTauri: Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson
Williams: Alex Albon and Logan Sargent