ROUND 5: 🇨🇳 China
FORMULA 1 LENOVO CHINESE GRAND PRIX 2024
Circuit stats
- First Grand Prix: 2004
- Number of laps: 56
- Circuit Length: 5.451 km
- Race Distance: 305.066 km
- Lap record: 1:32.238 Michael Schumacher (2004)
- 2023 winner: N/A
Track Map
Good job Norris.
Max was gaining nearly a second per lap 😵
Rebull pitstops are on another level today.
And it was even a double stack
Both of them were double stacks and near or under 2.1 seconds
Stroll upset he can’t crash into other cars whenever he feels like it
Stroll just needs to be out of F1 already, he just keeps showing he is not on the level to do this. Guy makes the dumbest mistakes and never seems to own up to it. He’s slow as hell most days, to boot.
What pissed me off was when he said on the radio that Ricciardo was an idiot for braking hard. I mean seriously?
That safety car took forever the hell?
McLaren should have called Norris way earlier. They just made Leclerc job much easier.
Not a good day for the Aussies. Bottas out with engine troubles, Ricciardo and Piastri getting torpedoed by Stroll.
Arbitrary safety car imho.
I assume there is loads of carbon and metal wheel rim over the track.
- Was that tractor on track?
Alonso not even getting slowed down by gravel.
That was a beautiful save.
It was incredibly skillful
And he just opened DRS right after as if nothing happened
Gasly a bit eager to get going again…
Well this is a shitshow
Racing Bull double dnf.
Aston Martin took a page from the Ferrari '22
playclownbookEdit: Ok, since Alonso started banging in fastest laps this might have been a premature comment. We’ll see
Wow-we that wheel in the gravel though
So nice to have Nico alongside Crofty. I love the insight he gives, really adds a lot to the race.
Not just insight, but also not afraid to push back a little against Crofty when he said Alonso’s last stop was working out well. He corrected him by saying Alonso is making the most of a terrible situation. You don’t see Martin do that too often.
Not saying Crofty needs to be 100% correct all the time. When you’re talking for 2+ hours you’re allowed to make some mistakes, as long as they get picked up and corrected. Like today. It was civil and nice.
I personally find him arrogant and grating. But he does have a few good analyses, I will say.
Hamilton utilizing all his racing prowess to get past a… Haas.
A 3.2 second pitstop for salbur - wow! 🤣