Verstappen took his seventh win of the season
Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri will contest a final-race championship showdown in Abu Dhabi after Red Bull's Verstappen won a gripping Qatar Grand Prix.
Verstappen benefited from a strategy call from McLaren that flew in the face of decisions made by every other team during an early race safety car.
It was a costly decision that sacrificed track position to Verstappen in the final stages and in hindsight threw away the race win for Piastri.
Verstappen won to take his seventh win of the season, equalling Norris and Piastri, while the Australian was second and the Briton fourth behind the Williams of Carlos Sainz.
