After a chaotic season of the season in Melbourne, the F1 is set for another unpredictable race in Sunday’s Grand Prix.
Oscar Piastri starts from Paul in the front row along with George Russell, with last year’s protagonists Lando Norris and Max Verstappen inside a track that has been chewing tires all weekends.
The dirty position tried to be essential in Saturday Sprint, which was won by Lewis Hamilton, so it could be a open -fonte -lap lap with many opportunities to overcome the first half of your lap.
Hamilton begins in the fifth along with teammate Ferrari Charles Leclerc and if the world champion rhythm seven times is everything to pass, he will be in the wake of victory in Grand Prix himself.
To add to the presence of a large number of names on the front of the network, the international circuit Shanghai is famous one of the most penalties of the year on the front tires of a car and, with degradation expected to be high, Pirelli is predicting drivers each who has to make two pit stops.
“It does for an interesting race,” said Sky Sports F1’s Karun Chandhok of potential strategy permutations.
“If you have a stop stop and you are spending a lot of time managing it, it’s not a very exciting race.
“With a two -stop race and people who run different tires at different times, we can see drivers starting from hard tires and go long, it depends on, but it makes things interesting for strategists and drivers. We want to see the variance.”
Polesitter Piastri said: “I think just by making sure your tires survive is the biggest thing. I think we’ve seen this morning that those who could take care of their tires – people who could manage the best one way or another were faster. “
“I think it’s the biggest degradation we’ve seen and the biggest we’ve seen in a long time.”
Who is the biggest threat to McLaren?
While the outdoor rain has complicated issues for them at the opening of last Sunday, McLaren were clearly the classroom class in Melbourne, but the picture was nowhere to be so clear in Shanghai, despite the pias gave them poles.
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Oscar piastri gets poles for Chinese Grand Prix!
Melbourne Victor Norris, who qualified for sixth and then ended his eighth in Sprint, has made some small but expensive mistakes in MCL39 over the weekend, but thinks he and the piastry should enjoy a strong rhythm.
“The car is good, it’s fast, not easy, but that’s the price you ever pay. As long as we keep things clean and don’t crash too hard, we can have a good race,” he said.
“We saw how complicated it was in the sprint to take care of the front tires, knowing when it pushes, how to push. Many questions that we won’t know until we start driving on Sunday.
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Chief Executive Officer of McLaren Zak Brown joined Karun Chandhok in Skypad to see again how Oscar Piastri claimed the pole of his daughters around the international circuit Shanghai
“Tire management here is not like a normal tire management. It is a grain, not temperature.
“It is unlike Australia, where it was about internet management and temperatures. This is how much you can save the front tires.”
And Norris scored a rival whom he believes are capable of that area.
“Mercedes have been strong here in the past,” he said.
“Las Vegas, for example, they took care of the front tires very well, so this is one of their strengths and maybe why they were quick today.
“I just have to focus on myself and go out and do a good job.”
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Sky F1 Ted Kravitz reflects on all big points of conversation from qualification to Chinese Grand Prix
Russell raised his eyebrows on Thursday when he suggested that the McLaren 2025 car should win every race this season and that the current advantage of the champions of the royal constructors over the field was even larger than the Red Bull in 2023, when the team won 21 of 22 races.
However, two days, and Russell divided the two papaya cars into the Shanghai network and ended only 0.082 away from the piast on the pole thanks to a great Q3 lap.
“I know when we unite and believe in ourselves, when it is there, we are as good as anyone,” he said.
“I don’t think McLaren quite optimized it. I don’t think anyone is expected to take ahead of a mclaren, so P3 would have been a good result, P2 is great.”
“McLaren is still my favorites, so we have to be realistic. We will try to come before Oscar at first and see where he takes us.”
What about Verstappen and Ferraris?
The omnipresent remaining in the front of the network so far this season despite the constant challenges with Red Bull’s car is the world champion Max Verstappen, who qualified the fourth after finishing the third in the early Sprint.
But the Dutch all, but expelled his prospects to open his own victory account for 2025.
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When asked about Racing Bulls’ performance during Saturday’s qualifying session in Chinese Grand Prix, Max Verstappen responded in a secret way!
Asked how he can win the race, Verstappen said Sky Sports F1: “If everyone retires in front of me! We’re not as fast as they should.
“I feel comfortable, confident, but sometimes my contribution is not what I’m getting out of the car and it makes it difficult to nail every corner. Then in the race, when you are not doing it, you are degrading your tires more difficult than the cars around you and that is not ideal.
“I probably feel the best form again by driving compared to the years ago. I feel I go to the qualification, I am nailing the laps and doing a good job, the races we have executed so far everything we can.
“But when the race rhythm is missing, there is not much you can do.”
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Lewis Hamilton led from start to end as he claimed his first victory by Ferrari at Sprint in the Chinese Grand Prix
Ferrari, therefore, may be the biggest threat to the first three network-especially based on the SF-21 tire management in 19-Jiro Sprint.
Following the changes set before the qualification, Hamilton said
“The qualification was tougher and we didn’t get the most out of the car in a lap today, but clearly we have the potential and now it is about working hard to make sure we can constantly unblock that pace over a weekend,” Hamilton said.
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Main points of the Sprint race by the Chinese Grand Prix
“The taste of profit has made us all even hungry and although it will be difficult tomorrow, we know the work we have to do.”
Sky Sports F1 Chinese GP Program Live
Sunday March 23
- 2.40: 00: F1 Academy Race 2
- 5.30 morning: Chinese GP Construction: Grand Prix Sunday*
- 7 morning: Chinese Grand Prix*
- 9:00: Chinese GP reaction: Controlled flag*
- 10:00: TED Notebook*
*Also in the main event of Sky Sports
Formula 1 is in Shanghai this week for the first weekend of the season sprint in Chinese GP, Live on Sky Sports F1. Stream Sky Sports with now – without contract, cancel at any time
