An eagle-eyed Max Verstappen played a key role in McLaren driver Lando Norris being hit with a penalty by the FIA at the Qatar Grand Prix.

Lando Norris harbors no ill feelings towards Max Verstappen despite the Red Bull driver's role in his hefty penalty at the 2024 Qatar GP.

Lando Norris has dismissed as “comedy” a reported claim by Max Verstappen that he could have secured the Formula 1 title earlier if he’d had the same McLaren car as Norris, his closest challenger.

Max Verstappen has claimed he would have been “investigated straight away” by the FIA stewards if he had not lifted for a yellow flag like Lando Norris in the Qatar Grand Prix. Seven days after wrapping up the F1 2024 World Championship in Las Vegas,

The FIA has released a statement explaining a string of controversial decisions made by race control and the stewards at the Qatar Grand Prix. Lando Norris, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen were among the drivers penalised throughout the weekend.

In a chaotic Qatar Grand Prix that saw multiple drivers' races affected by penalties, McLaren saw their hopes of winning the Constructors' Championship in Lusail dashed after Lando Norris was hit with a controversial stop-and-go penalty after ignoring yellow flags because of debris on the track.

Lando Norris had been running second in the Qatar Grand Prix when he was handed a huge penalty by the stewards for failing to slow under yellow flags, with rival Max Verstappen reporting him

Max Verstappen avenged his overnight demotion from pole position by clinching his ninth win of the season and 63rdof his career with a dominant triumph for Red Bull in Sundays crash-hit and controversial Qatar Grand Prix.