This Race was Painful... | F1 2024 Chinese Grand Prix: The Comedy Review

It's been 5 long years, but China is finally back on the calendar. A lot has changed since 2019. Purpose-built circuits like Shanghai are now rarer than real women on Tinder. Ricardo went from everyone's favorite pilot to someone who apparently should die in a hole and I've gained about 20 kg, but the less the better Hey guys, welcome to fp1 and the

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of the show that slapped even harder Yoser Stappen, oh my goodness, it's been 1.8 134 days since I last visited China, which explains why there haven't been many jokes about the country in these racing

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s and why I'm probably still alive with a renewed Sprint weekend to cover, so let's make good use of the time I have left and get into the 2012 Chinese Grand Prix

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review24 me up me up me up LIF me up our unpredictable weekend in China would start a lot before the cars hit the track as the 10 Formula 1 teams arrived at the Shanghai International Circuit to find out. had tried to blacken, the

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organizers had applied a superficial bitchman treatment to the circuit, which would have been fine except they decided not to tell anyone about it, as a result the teams returned to the track to find their plans and expectations of initial career. by the weekend they had to throw it in the bin and set it on fire, which turned out to be an even bigger waste of time given they could have used turn five, but we'll talk about all that later in other news after the Paddock rumors .

Fernando Alonzo pointed to Mercedes, then Red Bull, then Yosa Stappen Dungeon. The Spaniard finally made up his mind and decided that he would continue in Aston Martin's one-car program for 2025 and beyond, it was the boring option, but I managed to predict. Right, that's about as common as a top 10 ride, so I'm going to get that win. This, of course, comes at the same time as Honda comes out and has Bold claiming that they will compete for the world championship with Aston in 2026. Given that Fernando is still expected to be in the car at that time, it looks like it will be the biggest Japanese explosion since August 1945 and like many of you I can't wait for that to beg the question, although Alonzo will still have the beat. 2026, says he will be the first to raise his hand if he doesn't, let's hope it doesn't look like

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pre-season fan example, finally in the news, F1 would reveal its 24-

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calendar for the 2025 campaign, now let's hope. a second yes, there are the forums and the seal of disapproval, the Dutchman was quite critical of so many events on the calendar, which led sports boss Stefano domenicali to open his mouth, which RAR ends well

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time, said Stefano and I quote , racing in F1 is not mandatory, you know what?

At this stage I think F1's plan is to simply get angry at getting so far away that it goes away and makes the sport interesting again. Next thing you know we're replacing the trophies with late night sessions with Kelly PK, let's move on before Daniel Kivat moves. form your own team and do a free practice which would constitute just one session as it's the first Sprint weekend of

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. I'm still the only one excited about that, aren't we with the Europeans suffering early morning session times one more time? Sleeping through this and when I woke up and L Stump had finished it in P1 and a Salber in the top 10 I thought I must still be dreaming incredibly, neither of which would be the most surprising element of Friday with the inside of turn five.

Deciding he wanted to play the role of a Tibetan monk and set himself on fire in protest. What AC? You ask who knows? I've seen theories about sparks generated on the ground igniting the tracker. I've seen others implying that it's somehow Nikita Maspin's fault. Either way, this is such a rare phenomenon of nature that I doubt we'd end up seeing on-track drama again and LS Hamilton would end up in a dispute with Piastri's McLaren, the AI ​​trying to remind the seven-time champion of his lines. 2007 race, which would be the least of hasht, plus concerns as it misidentified the McLaren as Norris, led to everyone old enough to download Twitter canceling it.

The pit stop was causing problems for more than just Lewis, although Fernando was looking for a way. He pulled out of his deal with Aston on the second lap and then decided he'd rather try the team's spare chassis, but as I said, it was his teammate Lance Stl who came in the first hour on top, which I'm sure generated Panic on social media. offices since no one had pre-prepared that chart yet for everyone else, it was time for Sprint Qualifying and if you're wondering what happened to the normal qualifying session, no, I didn't miss it even though we know everyone's result anyway, they We just decided to mix the format again.

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Sprint qualifying will now take place on Friday afternoon, followed by the Sprint race itself on Saturday morning and then Grand Prix qualifying at its usual Saturday afternoon time slot, which it gives teams more time to modify their configurations. for the weekend or in the case of Mercedes, more time to grab a pretty decent setup and experiment with it until it gets really hot, at least the Shanghai weather was there to add some danger to this new build with the rain persistent while the cars left for Box 1 was perhaps the best. Now another part of the circuit was on fire again.

At the end of that session we see George Russell in a bit of trouble or annoyance, as he would probably call it. The Englishman was 20th and last until the end. The lap returned him to the top 15 and relegated Gazley back to the Relegation Zone. The big impact here came from the RB and p19 and no, it wasn't Daniel Ricardo who was even meaner than usual, it was Yuki Coda, which is a shame, baby. Badger would advance to square 2, but would not finish 14th, as Russell found himself in the relegation zone again and the Shanghai circuit was covered in rain, meaning there would be no final lap heroics.

This time there were shocks at the other end of the timing sheets. Well, well, the kick of Salas, excited by the idea of ​​a race without pit stops and, in fact, going fast for once, both the boots and the slow ones, made it to the top 10 of shootouts, to the applause of the Chinese fans who, for the first time, had someone to help them. cheer him on until Audi shows him the door at the end of the season, a wet track for third place, although pole position came down to pure driver skill and that meant they were ninth and tenth in the penalty shootout between the eight first and then almost became one of the top seven.

Clair couldn't even manage a single start before his brain-dead syndrome threw him into the tire wall. Fortunately, Monagas was able to free himself without too much damage to the car, but he wasn't the only one who made mistakes, even the Dutch Messiah. was struggling to stay within the white lines putting together a lap that in the end was only good enough for P4, instead the Sprint pole would go to Lando Norris and Lewis Hamilton, the Mercedes driver crossing the line first, but he found his way back. Eclipse by the McLaren. Just moments later, that seemed to be it, except the emotional rollercoaster entered another when Norris' time was wiped out for cutting track limits at the end of the lap before that left Hamilton on pole again and just when the commentators confirmed his return to the track.

At the front of the grid, FIA officials decided they would change their minds after realizing that Lando had lost time going through the gravel. I mean, who could see that a lap coming from the McLaren driver was reinstated and knocked Hamilton back to P2, which is racist? apparently so, since black lives matter, people book their flights to China, China, its Sergio Perez killing a bird, now let's see if Norris can keep that poll in the Sprint, Saturday morning's 19 laps They were always going to be exciting with Max for Stappen. in P4 there were guaranteed to be three overtakes, which is usually three more than we normally get with these.

Norris would do his job at the start, that job, of course, being to suppress all chances of winning a race and continue his PhD on the nature of foot racing. In high-pressure situations, Hamilton would stick out his elbows and push his younger compatriots off the track and down the order. I guess it's lucky for him that this is all past Lando fans' average bedtime, back to racing and Hamilton now has Fernando Alonzo for company, the Spaniard had capitalized on Aston's good practice form and before Even though you asked, no bonus points for guessing which ride session is over now, even though Alonzo had a real chance of winning a race for the first time since 2013, well, I say real chance, Max.

Stan is in third place, what started as a valiant effort ended on lap seven where Max, who had been playing with his engine modes in the early stages, put one on the inside and took second place from him. Lewis Hamilton still had a margin of a few seconds, but his return to form unfolded just as he did in 2007, when he held back in the final sector. Max passed and proceeded to lap a second faster than the rest of the field for the remaining 10 laps of the race. I'm sure you expected it. The Sprint was pretty boring after that, it certainly didn't help that the race directors were helping Time by showing us how the end of Pi gle's race was going, but a little further on, a proper battle was about to begin, Alonzo.

He was still trying to fend off the Ferraris and Perez to keep his place on the podium. Carlos SS was having none of it however and with three laps to go he found a route around the outside of turn five, the Spanish Civil War would end in disaster afterwards. Minor contact between the pair allowed Perez to close his path as Alonzo He came out of this with a puncture which eventually led to his retirement and as if the Spaniard had not suffered enough, the administrator decided that this was worth a 10 second penalty. and three penalty points, which makes as much sense to me as quantum physics would make to put Charlot Clair's unique brain cell in front, although Verstappen would win once again with Hamilton and Checo rounding out the top three right now, let's do this again. qualifying now and we'll start with Logan Sergeant, who thought he did a pretty decent job with his P20 in Sprint qualifying.

I'm not really making this up right, he was doing a pretty decent job as a mobile advertising board on q1 and That's it. Yuki Soda also continued to fight, which is still a great shame. The big surprise here would once again be Lewis Hamilton who decided a bottle job wasn't good enough and the p8 final position would cap a horror show of a Saturday that I said if you're a fan of lwis and something in this video It's been difficult for you, I recommend you watch this one, as it will speed up your inevitable Magnuson suicide and the slowness will complete those who didn't make it to Q2, where he saw Clair's Ferrari and threw him against the wall again without holding on, that's actually science, apologizing by force of habit for the second time in 2 days, although the Ferrari was proven to be built the same way as those Nokia bricks in the 90s when expensive was able to recover.

In the pits with only damage to the front wing, we still didn't avoid one of these. We got going again with just enough time for one more lap where we saw gruel and cracked the top 10 once again and L Stump failed to crack the top 10 once again. This time, with no risk of rain, it was an easy pole position for Max due to a stalemate in Q3 that said the battle for second place changed every second with the Ferraris looking to have it only to be usurped by the McLarens, then Alonzo and then Pérez . Stappen then decided he would go even faster making the field look even more incompetent as the Dutchman secured Red Bull's 100th pole position 15 years after Sebastian Ship took the team's first here in 2009, that weekend ending in a race day One two1 and, frankly, This will probably do it too, so let's not waste any more time and get this over with.

On Sunday we started with this Aston Martin engineer touching Fernando's car and with it wet enough, the lights went out and Forsten shot off into the distance somewhere else, whatever that was. The engineer was doing it with Fernando's car and it clearly worked, as the Spaniard was able to go around Perez on the outside and take P2. I don't want to talk about Ricardo losing three places, so let's move on. I know some of you here don't. In fact, I don't watch the races anymore, so I'll give you a couple of seconds to guess how many laps he took from Checo.find your way back to surpass Alonzo.

If you guessed Infinity when talking about Sergio Pérez, you would actually be wrong as five laps of the Shanghai circuit were enough for the Mexican to fight his way back. Alonzo would then fall behind the McLaren of Norris, whose papaya team had spent the build-up telling everyone how bad they were going to be in the low-speed corners. Well, clearly, there were a few. Cars were making early pit stops, including Yuki Coda, who intended to undercut his teammate, and Pierre Gazley, who intended to run over his pit crew. Fortunately, the Alpine was so slow that the engineer escaped unscathed while all this was happening.

Charlotte Clair had remembered. how to get back to being a Formula 1 driver making moves in George Russell's Mercedes and Piastri's McLaren, but with no one able to challenge Max at the front, it looked like this would be the best racing action until the independent car comes more forward. Although not quite at night, he said vry boots his engine, as the thought of an imminent pit stop caused him to shut down at the end of sector 2, time for a safety car, then or apparently not, as officials racers had clearly also fallen asleep and we are not there.

Even at mid-distance, it wasn't until Boots was strolling around a live race track that they thought it might be a good idea to send Burn Mander, but little did they know they were about to make the situation much worse. Daniel Ricardo, the Australian, has had an impressive weekend so far and despite being overtaken by Coda after the first round of stops, he has already managed to overtake his teammate. However, on the track, When the safety car arrived, his team opted to leave the Honey Badger out effectively facing him for the rest of the afternoon, until it was revealed that the race restart would actually be an attack on RB with Kevin Magnuson killing Codo and the irresponsible that his L ride giving his 5,469th reason for retiring from Formula 1, his teammate Alonzo calls the bottleneck of the cars in The Hairpin, that's fine, although these are Formula 1 drivers and they have the reactions to avoid an accident Almighty, then you have Lance ride, who can't even ride a bike without crashing and therefore returned Ricardo to the previous Heights in a slightly different way than perhaps he planned earlier in the year with a 10 second penalty, luckily saved the rest of the field from his antics.

He would try to restart the Grom Prix again and all the chaos has put Logan Sergeant on the fringes of the top 10, so at least we'll get some passes in the second half as he dropped back down the order which we haven't checked. At Lewis Hamilton, yes, to sum up his Grand Prix so far, Britain started on the softest tire compound only to complain that it still wasn't fast enough, so at what stage does this become an issue? So anyway, the bless hashtag was now. fighting with Hulkenberg for 9th place which to be fair isn't bad at all, we rarely see soft tires in the Grand Prix but for some reason Fernando Alonzo used them on the restart which meant he needed to make a stop in additional pits compared to the rest. of the field, meaning his fight to get back to the grid was a nice distraction from Fen's 10-second lead at the front.

Alonzo was giving everything on the last lap. Sam would try anything to pass the cars in front, even dropping his own former teammates in the back. of his ason Martin after this scare in the final corner slow was also trying some weight saving techniques when he passed Magnuson for p15, not that the Chinese crowd seemed to care. I'm half convinced you'd be cheered if you shot a Skool in The Hairpin at this point, but I've avoided the inevitable for quite a while after 50-odd laps. I can't be bothered to check that Max Vapen rounded the final corner to win once again with Orando Norris coming home in second and how that happened.

I have no idea that Perez would complete the podium and the sport would hold imminent retirement spectacles 19 races early on a weekend that I thought was actually pretty good by 2024 standards, as long as you forget everything that happened to Ricardo here , the new Sprint format will need some time to grow on me, but we won't have much time until next time in two weeks in Miami. I don't know about you, but I can't wait for it to be done, let me know what you thought over the weekend and vote in the Poll on my community page to give me even more of your sweet, sweet commitment.

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