Posted on 04/18/2024 6:44:58 PM PDT by Chode
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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Help me out, my FRiends, as I don't see it.
“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, ...
I see your excellent point, however do Hungary, Canada and Azerbaijan... have Uyghurs?
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.”
How is the resurfaced track holding up?
$$$$$
tell you in an hour...
Chinese GP š§ does that mean drivers have to drive right to left?
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...
They have a ton of rich people in China. Thatās why.
19 21 Apr 2024 Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai
Pos | Driver | Time | Gap | Laps | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1:36.302 | 21 | ||||
2 | 1:36.629 | +0.327s | 24 | |||
3 | 1:36.660 | +0.358s | 25 | |||
4 | 1:36.690 | +0.388s | 24 | |||
5 | 1:37.101 | +0.799s | 23 | |||
6 | 1:37.118 | +0.816s | 23 | |||
7 | 1:37.213 | +0.911s | 23 | |||
8 | 1:37.229 | +0.927s | 19 | |||
9 | 1:37.238 | +0.936s | 25 | |||
10 | 1:37.530 | +1.228s | 24 | |||
11 | 1:37.626 | +1.324s | 24 | |||
12 | 1:38.006 | +1.704s | 27 | |||
13 | 1:38.090 | +1.788s | 20 | |||
14 | 1:38.284 | +1.982s | 19 | |||
15 | 1:38.286 | +1.984s | 23 | |||
16 | 1:38.630 | +2.328s | 21 | |||
17 | 1:38.806 | +2.504s | 21 | |||
18 | 1:38.839 | +2.537s | 24 | |||
19 | 1:38.936 | +2.634s | 22 | |||
20 | 1:39.276 | +2.974s | 21 |
Iām 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.
19 21 Apr 2024 Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai
Pos | Driver | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1:36.384 | 1:36.047 | 1:57.940 | |||
2 | 1:37.181 | 1:36.287 | 1:59.201 | |||
3 | 1:36.883 | 1:36.119 | 1:59.915 | |||
4 | 1:36.456 | 1:35.606 | 2:00.028 | |||
5 | 1:36.719 | 1:36.052 | 2:00.214 | |||
6 | 1:36.110 | 1:35.781 | 2:00.375 | |||
7 | 1:36.537 | 1:35.711 | 2:00.566 | |||
8 | 1:36.542 | 1:35.853 | 2:00.990 | |||
9 | 1:37.112 | 1:36.056 | 2:01.044 | |||
10 | 1:37.544 | 1:36.307 | 2:03.537 | |||
11 | 1:37.310 | 1:36.345 | ||||
12 | 1:37.033 | 1:36.473 | ||||
13 | 1:36.924 | 1:36.478 | ||||
14 | 1:37.321 | 1:36.553 | ||||
15 | 1:36.961 | 1:36.677 | ||||
16 | 1:37.632 | |||||
17 | 1:37.720 | |||||
18 | 1:37.812 | |||||
19 | 1:37.892 | |||||
20 | 1:37.923 |
yeah, the real racing is midpack...
two fires???
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.
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