2024 FORMULA 1 LENOVO CHINESE GRAND PRIX - LIVE THREAD

4/18/2024 | chode

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Shanghai International Circuit

First Grand Prix

2004

Number of Laps

56

Circuit Length

5.451km

Race Distance

305.066 km

Lap Record

1:32.238 Michael Schumacher (2004)

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[Seaplaner]

Perhaps there is a valid reason to hold an F1 race in China.

Help me out, my FRiends, as I don't see it.

[TexasGator]

“Perhaps there is a valid reason to hold an F1 race in China.
Help me out, my FRiends, as I don’t see it.”

Same reason they race in Hungary, Canada, Azerbaijan, ...

[Seaplaner]

I see your excellent point, however do Hungary, Canada and Azerbaijan... have Uyghurs?

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Years ago my less than brilliant kid sister announced she was going to France to see the Grand Prix but she pronounced Prix improperly. I burst out laughing. My dad looked at me and said, “I think she is going to be disappointed.”

[texas booster]

How is the resurfaced track holding up?

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[Chode]

$$$$$

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tell you in an hour...

[Lockbox]

Chinese GP 🧐 does that mean drivers have to drive right to left?

[Chode]

looks to be clockwise...

i used to live on StCroix wi drive on the left

there were signs that said “keep yer ass in the grass”

meaning keep left

passengers can get a lil nervous wi oncoming traffic

after a few drinks, old habits die hard, now throw in a couple roundabouts, hilarity ensues...

[Vermont Lt]

They have a ton of rich people in China. That’s why.

[Chode]

not staying up for the Sprint Qualifying

19 21 Apr 2024 Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai

Race sponsor

• Race
• Practice 1

	Pos	No	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Laps
	1	18	Lance Stroll STR	Aston Martin Aramco Mercedes	1:36.302		21
	2	81	Oscar Piastri PIA	McLaren Mercedes	1:36.629	+0.327s	24
	3	1	Max Verstappen VER	Red Bull Racing Honda RBPT	1:36.660	+0.358s	25
	4	11	Sergio Perez PER	Red Bull Racing Honda RBPT	1:36.690	+0.388s	24
	5	27	Nico Hulkenberg HUL	Haas Ferrari	1:37.101	+0.799s	23
	6	20	Kevin Magnussen MAG	Haas Ferrari	1:37.118	+0.816s	23
	7	31	Esteban Ocon OCO	Alpine Renault	1:37.213	+0.911s	23
	8	23	Alexander Albon ALB	Williams Mercedes	1:37.229	+0.927s	19
	9	3	Daniel Ricciardo RIC	RB Honda RBPT	1:37.238	+0.936s	25
	10	77	Valtteri Bottas BOT	Kick Sauber Ferrari	1:37.530	+1.228s	24
	11	24	Zhou Guanyu ZHO	Kick Sauber Ferrari	1:37.626	+1.324s	24
	12	22	Yuki Tsunoda TSU	RB Honda RBPT	1:38.006	+1.704s	27
	13	16	Charles Leclerc LEC	Ferrari	1:38.090	+1.788s	20
	14	55	Carlos Sainz SAI	Ferrari	1:38.284	+1.982s	19
	15	2	Logan Sargeant SAR	Williams Mercedes	1:38.286	+1.984s	23
	16	4	Lando Norris NOR	McLaren Mercedes	1:38.630	+2.328s	21
	17	63	George Russell RUS	Mercedes	1:38.806	+2.504s	21
	18	44	Lewis Hamilton HAM	Mercedes	1:38.839	+2.537s	24
	19	14	Fernando Alonso ALO	Aston Martin Aramco Mercedes	1:38.936	+2.634s	22
	20	10	Pierre Gasly GAS	Alpine Renault	1:39.276	+2.974s	21

[stratboy]

I’m going out on a limb here with a race prediction (sarcasm)

1. Mad Max Verstappen
2. Sergio Perez
3. Saintz or LeClerc

Sadly 1 and 2 are a certainty for the foreseeable future.
The battle for 3rd is the only excitement in F1.

[Chode]

19 21 Apr 2024 Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai

Race sponsor

• Race
• Sprint grid
• Sprint Qualifying
• Practice 1

	Pos	No	Driver	Car	Q1	Q2	Q3	Laps
	1	4	Lando Norris NOR	McLaren Mercedes	1:36.384	1:36.047	1:57.940	13
	2	44	Lewis Hamilton HAM	Mercedes	1:37.181	1:36.287	1:59.201	15
	3	14	Fernando Alonso ALO	Aston Martin Aramco Mercedes	1:36.883	1:36.119	1:59.915	14
	4	1	Max Verstappen VER	Red Bull Racing Honda RBPT	1:36.456	1:35.606	2:00.028	12
	5	55	Carlos Sainz SAI	Ferrari	1:36.719	1:36.052	2:00.214	15
	6	11	Sergio Perez PER	Red Bull Racing Honda RBPT	1:36.110	1:35.781	2:00.375	12
	7	16	Charles Leclerc LEC	Ferrari	1:36.537	1:35.711	2:00.566	15
	8	81	Oscar Piastri PIA	McLaren Mercedes	1:36.542	1:35.853	2:00.990	15
	9	77	Valtteri Bottas BOT	Kick Sauber Ferrari	1:37.112	1:36.056	2:01.044	16
	10	24	Zhou Guanyu ZHO	Kick Sauber Ferrari	1:37.544	1:36.307	2:03.537	16
	11	63	George Russell RUS	Mercedes	1:37.310	1:36.345		10
	12	20	Kevin Magnussen MAG	Haas Ferrari	1:37.033	1:36.473		10
	13	27	Nico Hulkenberg HUL	Haas Ferrari	1:36.924	1:36.478		10
	14	3	Daniel Ricciardo RIC	RB Honda RBPT	1:37.321	1:36.553		9
	15	18	Lance Stroll STR	Aston Martin Aramco Mercedes	1:36.961	1:36.677		8
	16	10	Pierre Gasly GAS	Alpine Renault	1:37.632			6
	17	31	Esteban Ocon OCO	Alpine Renault	1:37.720			6
	18	23	Alexander Albon ALB	Williams Mercedes	1:37.812			6
	19	22	Yuki Tsunoda TSU	RB Honda RBPT	1:37.892			6
	20	2	Logan Sargeant SAR	Williams Mercedes	1:37.923			6

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yeah, the real racing is midpack...

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two fires???

[Paal Gulli]

"Perhaps there is a valid reason to hold an F1 race in China.

Help me out, my FRiends, as I don't see it."

How else was Bernie supposed to pay for Tamara's mansions in London and Beverly Hills?

Or less tongue-in-cheek, for the same reason$ they built an F1 circuit 35 miles outside of New Delhi.

Buddh never stood a chinaman's chance of attracting the jetset crowd. First of all, Delhi is on the backside of beyond, a four hour flight from Dubai, eight hours from Paris and 14 hours from NYC. Second, it's one of the most polluted and impoverished large cities on the planet. Third, the races there were held in October, and Buddh is at about the same latitude as Orlando. Average daily high in October is ~85F.

Fourth, there wasn't a bespoke motor racing circuit IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. There were a couple of abandoned British air bases where they held impromptu amateur races, but India, on the whole, had next to NO grass roots support for motor racing. None.

And fifthly, it was a Hermann Tilke-designed circuit. Watching F1 at a Tilke track is only slightly more exciting than watching Galapagos tortoise drag races.

Just like COMMUNIST China, there was no reason to build an F1 circuit there. But Bernie did it anyway because he knew there was someone there with more money than sense who he could fleece. In this case it was the Jaypee development project, which spent $400 million on what I predicted would fail (because I'd been there) before the first spade-full of earth was turned.

And you can be sure that before Buddh began its inexorable march back to the desert from whence it came, Bernie had managed to make enough off the deal to buy his daughters matching Gulfstreams.

F1 stopped being about motorsports a long, long time ago. Bernie saved it from ruin but the sport sold its soul to him (and his successors) in exchange for profitability and world-wide exposure. Now it's reduced to WOKE spec-racing dedicated to the cause of saving humanity from its own exhaust.