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
Alonso not even getting slowed down by gravel.
Not a good day for the Aussies. Bottas out with engine troubles, Ricciardo and Piastri getting torpedoed by Stroll.
So nice to have Nico alongside Crofty. I love the insight he gives, really adds a lot to the race.
I personally find him arrogant and grating. But he does have a few good analyses, I will say.
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.
Max was gaining nearly a second per lap 😵
Well this is a shitshow
Racing Bull double dnf.
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
Arbitrary safety car imho.
I assume there is loads of carbon and metal wheel rim over the track.
- Was that tractor on track?
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
That safety car took forever the hell?
Yeh, felt a bit wrong that he was getting out on that corner just under yellows
A 3.2 second pitstop for salbur - wow! 🤣
Lando P2 then?
Ooh, when is the 1 stop window?
Good job Norris.
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Now Perez gifted alonso to Norris with drs.