Why ‘all-new’ Qatar track adds to F1 teams’ sprint headaches

The inaugural event in 2021 came towards the end of the thrilling campaign as the title battle intensity between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen ramped up. 

Since then F1’s cars have changed dramatically, with the new generation of ground effect machinery having little in common with the older era of machines.

But if teams had hoped to be able to fall back on some old data to help them out ahead of this weekend’s race, they will be…