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As part of the new sprint format for 2024, qualifying will occupy its usual Saturday afternoon slot. This means the 60-minute pole shootout is now scheduled a few hours after the Sprint and will determine the grid for Sunday's grand prix.A pecking order is hard to determine, especially with FP1 taking place on a dusty track and Sprint shooutout being held in wet conditions.What time does ...Keep reading

Ye went fastest half an hour into the first 90-minute session with a 1m31.347s aboard the customer AF Corse-run 499P Le Mans Hypercar to push the best of the works Ferraris with Anthony Fuoco at the wheel down to second position.Fuoco ended up on 31.503s, which gave him a margin of nearly half a second over the first non-Ferrari, the Peugeot 9X8 2024 LMH driven by Mikkel Jensen that finished on ...Keep reading

As part of the new weekend format for 2024, the sprint race will be held on Saturday morning before qualifying for the grand prix later in the day.McLaren's Lando Norris will line up on pole position ahead of the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton, with Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) and Max Verstappen (Red Bull) sharing the second row of the grid.What time does the Sprint race for the Chinese Grand Prix ...Keep reading

With F1 teams having done a lot of pre-event work in the simulator based on information from both Pirelli and the FIA, they were caught out when they arrived at the circuit on Wednesday by the visibly different track surface.While drivers said it looked like the track had been "painted", it emerged that it was actually a liquid bitumen surface treatment that had been applied last year to help ...Keep reading

Red Bull already has Max Verstappen under contract for 2025, while Perez has impressed in the opening part of the 2024 season to ensure he is likely to retain his seat at the team.Perez stated on Thursday that, given the dynamic nature of the 2025 driver market, he expected "to know my future in the coming weeks, because everything is moving quite fast. So I think it's important not to wait for ...Keep reading

The Hyundai driver set the pace by winning three of the four stages to open up an 8.6s lead over nearest title rival Evans.Eight-time world champion Sebastien Ogier coped admirably as stage conditions worsened after every pass to end the loop in third, 21.5s adrift. Hyundai's Ott Tanak held fourth (+37.3s) despite struggling with his i20 N.M-Sport's Adrien Fourmaux completed the top five (+41.6s) ...Keep reading

Sainz qualified fifth and team-mate Charles Leclerc seventh as the Ferraris struggled to get their tyres warmed up in a rainy end to Friday's sprint qualifying.Leclerc went off when it started raining, bending his steering rack, which Sainz admitted could have easily happened to him too."With the intermediate tyres we waited a long time at the pitlane exit, they got cold, and then Charles and I ...Keep reading

First practice on Friday morning had to be red-flagged after a fire erupted on the grass on the inside of Turn 7 at the Shanghai International Circuit.The same section later caught fire at the end of the first session of sprint qualifying, which led to the start of SQ2 being briefly delayed.Following the first problem on Friday morning, the FIA visited the area before qualifying to try to ...Keep reading

Hamilton was one of the standout performers of a wet final qualifying segment on Friday afternoon, taking second behind McLaren's Lando Norris.The seven-time world champion said his car "came alive" in the wet, but he's realistic about its potential if Saturday morning's sprint is held in dry conditions."It was pretty tricky conditions. Not a lot of grip for everyone, but so happy," he told F1 ...Keep reading

Having claimed every pole position so far in the 2024 F1 season, Verstappen looked strong favourite again after topping Q2 of sprint qualifying in the dry.But as rain fell at the Shanghai International Circuit it produced a major unknown given no driver had any wet running at a track F1 had not visited for five years.With multiple drivers slipping off the track in Q3, Verstappen had two lap times ...Keep reading

Rain made the already slippery Shanghai surface even more treacherous and Friday afternoon's final segment of sprint qualifying was peppered with incidents, with world champion Max Verstappen going off twice and Charles Leclerc tapping the wall with his front wing.McLaren driver Norris bagged sprint pole, but not before his lap was briefly deleted. Right before embarking on the lap that would ...Keep reading

Lando Norris has taken P1 during Sprint Qualifying at the Chinese Grand Prix in what proved to be a dramatic rain-affected session, with the Briton initially seeing his time being deleted before it was reinstated.

Live coverage of Friday's Sprint Qualifying session at the 2024 Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai.

Norris had his penultimate timed lap deleted for track limits at Turn 16, but his 1m57.940s follow-up ultimately proved unbeatable during a wet and slippery final part of sprint qualifying - which yielded multiple mistakes across the field.This lap was initially chalked off for track limits as well, suspected to be a result of Norris going off at the final corner of the previous lap, but it was ...Keep reading

After every F1 qualifying session, Motorsport.com publishes each team's qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don't alter the statistics.When a driver can't put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this will be mentioned in the table.Read Also:


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Rain emerged at the end of the SQ2 session and continued to pepper the Shanghai circuit during the intermission, necessitating the use of intermediate tyres for the final stage of qualifying to decide pole.Track conditions were evidently very slippery, as a number of drivers over-extended beyond the circuit's environs and had to recover from the run-off; Charles Leclerc hit the wall after spinning ...Keep reading

Lando Norris beats Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso to take pole position for the sprint race at the Chinese Grand Prix in a hectic wet session.

Lando Norris beats Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso to take pole position for the sprint race at the Chinese Grand Prix in a hectic wet session.

Lando Norris beats Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso to take pole position for the sprint race at the Chinese Grand Prix in a hectic wet session.

The French manufacturer has admitted surprise at the BoP for its Le Mans Hypercar, now known as the 9X8 2024, which will hit the track 31kg heavier and with 10kW (13bhp) less power than its predecessor did at the Qatar WEC season-opener in March.Read Also:


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