2025 Chinese Grand Prix - [SPRINT QUALIFYING] discussion thread ⏱️
ROUND 2: 🇨🇳 China
FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN CHINESE GRAND PRIX 2025
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)
- 2024 winner: Max Verstappen
What we expected: McLaren 1-2
What we got: Ham-Ver
Is it 21 again?
For real. First thing I said to my partner was "what year is it??"
0.018 between them into a very long first turn. Hoping for a good sprint!
Didn’t have that on the cards - stoked to see.
:) looooong turn 1
nice for HAM being ahead LEC, as for ALB, STR,... BEA
Hamilton's cackle over the radio was amazing.
Max's team mates are cursed.
Bring back Danny Ric!
Hadjar seems to be on speed with Tsunoda already. And Lawson once again proves how shitty RBR is at building a driveable car.
Hadjar is really impressive so far.
He makes rookie mistakes, but he is a rookie so that is fine. His raw pace is impressive.
Oof Checo...... Sorry Lawson
Meme misuse. The one being called is Bart
Marko in the background sharpening his axe
TSU sends kudos to Mr. Marko.
That car has to have some very weird requirements from the driver. It's not that everybody is slower than VER (expected), but nobody seems able to extract performance. Mr Marko, Give Yuki a chance! :D
It seems to have been the case for years now, Verstappen has very specific preferences for how the car feels, and nobody else can deal with that setup
I think RB has accidentally designed their to be impossible to drive because Max isn't happy with the car either. The only reason he gets anything done with the car is because he's Max Verstappen.
Checo's manager probably already on the phone with Cadillac again
Why did they not show the timing tower at the end of SQ2? I had no idea who was on the brink of being outed 😤
And now again in the middle of SQ3...
Austrian commentary says they got a heads up that F1 has some kind of problem with the graphics at the moment
Amazing to see Lewis on the front row! Also intrested to see how well Norris can calve through the pack tomorrow.
Lawson continuing to prove, he's nothing more than a direct replacement for Perez 😅🤷🏻♂️
The Red Bull clown side show continues
With Zhou back at Ferrari, this will be Hype today and tomorrow at Shanghai
Also there were lots of 44 signs in the stands. Chinese fans love Ferrari.
Broadcasting team needs to fix the timings board. Been glitchy for the past few events.
Oof Russell nearly blocked Yuki there
Alonso in 2? 1 second faster than Stroll? Hulk nearly as fast as Antonelli? What is happening here?