Sprint weekends are always perfect for everyone. From Friday morning to Sunday evening, there is a true urgent procedure. Shanghai was no different, and if the pack was so close that the constant nature was strengthened, it was the beginning of the season of many new drivers and team combo.
As a small margin, Mclaren was once again a team to win, but it was not easy for the driver to deliver the optimal rap from a very smooth and quirky new surface that produces three seconds faster than last year.
The high aerodynamic load of the first turn of 270 degrees has a high minimum tire pressure, which includes 2 and 3 turns. In addition, 12 and 13 are turned straight straight.
In the case of qualified rap, the driver had to hang a slight temperature on the Pytle line and the fit out rap, causing the pressure to drop. Therefore, the pressure dropped because the minimum pressure was raised back to the front and rear on Friday. This dock and the inaccurate process lead to many volatility.
Therefore, we had a Red Bull of Maxbutta Pen at the front line of Luis Hamilton’s Ferrari and 19 Rap Sprint, and George Russell’s Mercedes at the forefront of McLaren in Oscar Pia Street and 56 Rap Race. Volatility was the name of the game in Shanghai.
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Sprint’s vintage Hamilton
The Sprint has controlled the race in the play position, tires better manage grain than others, and won their first victory in Ferrari. Since it was called “miserable” in Melbourne last weekend, this was a perfect detox agent, and for the first time, he or Ferrari won the sprint.
PiaStri will go to second place by overtaking VERSTAPPEN, which is very fair and observed because everyone has been struggling with tires. The side grip is so high that it tears the surface compound and makes a tire slide to make the problem worse.
Lando Norris, a championship leader, sometimes has one of the forced errors, ran wide on the opening rap and only 8th place. MCLAREN is definitely fast, but there are some driving on the knife edge.
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Lewis Hamilton led from the beginning to the end, claiming the first victory with Ferrari at the Grand Prix in China.
Nowadays, teams can change before they are qualified on Saturday afternoon to improve their cars for speed and tire management. And many people seemed quite successful in it.
What is not known as a race day is the performance of hard compound tires. Despite the fact that there were additional preliminary sessions and additional mini -races on the Sprint Weekend, each driver is allocated by 12, not 13 sets of dry tires on weekends.
And only two of them are a hard compound that you do not want to waste the set in advance and provide useful information for everyone else. This was especially appropriate given how terrible intermediate tires were from the point of view of grain in sprints.
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The team changed the race strategy on the go.
The qualification of the main race looked like a straight duel between Mclaren’s piaestri and Norris. Young Australia always looked like ace. And as he actually did, he did, but the other out rap strategy and the fine rap were slot of Russell’s muscles between them and the front row.
The weather in Shanghai was abnormally enjoyable through the event and Sunday was no different. At the start, PiaStri turned a slightly fast Russell to the pit wall so that the entrance of George entering George’s high -speed turn could be damaged. This allowed Norris to sweep the outside and rank second in a great team.
VERSTAPPEN’s Red Bull popped out sideways and was able to capture the chance for Hamilton and Leclerc. Leclerc took a fast line, but it protruded the cogs inside the curb and slipped into a teammate, drilling the front side fence and dragging along the ground at the speed, and luckily not to pierce Hamilton’s tires.
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It was an interesting start of the Chinese GP that Charles Lesker lost his left front wing after clipping Ferrari Team Fellow Hamilton!
Surprisingly, the LeclerC will settle down despite these disorders that have not been changed at the pit stops, and the fastest of the two Ferrari and Lewis will eventually pass him. It was a very enthusiastic effort of LeclerC, which Hamilton did not see a sprint victory 24 hours ago. As a result, it will all be in the vein.
It is expected to be two stop races, medium/hard/hard for the optimal glorious victory. In the second half of the field, three drivers attempted opposition, and why wouldn’t it be done by starting a hard tire? The initial signs were the mystery tires were working well, but Liam Lawson grabbed his Red Bull to park the solid tires of the rap 18 laps and parked the Ollie Bearman of the 26th Rap and at 56 laps scheduled for Lance in Aston Martin. I got 36 rap.
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Rando Norris, George Russell, Lance Troll
Through the PACE Management for the middle tires, the leaders began to beat for the first time in Rap 14. MCLAREN reasonably runs 1 and 2, so Norris had to wait up to Lap 15, which led him back behind Russell. Another overpass was needed, and the hard racing to Rap 18 was formally delivered to the style and reset MCLAREN 1-2.
The tires looked good and dawn began in a team where the race could be over if it took 23 seconds to prepare for all expectations in preparation for all expectations.
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MCLAREN is rolling
I remembered that VERSTAPPEN be in Gyeongju as I started looking for grip. Anyway, you will be able to track lower fuel or simply track conditions. Perhaps even the fact that he did not have to take care of the tire too much, he could catch Ferrari. In fact, MAX will provide the fastest and leader rap time on the final tour. This is a bit confused.
Hamilton was crumpled because he didn’t have much to lose except to put him after VERSTAPPEN. Lewis pushed hard until the end of the race, which may have contributed to the final disqualification.
The big problem is now whether hard tires can actually do more than 42 laps, and the answer was terrible. In his ordinary restraint, Piastri described them as “better than expected.”
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MCLAREN CEO Zak Brown joined Karun Changhok in SkyPad and looked back on how Oscar Piatri insisted on virgin pillars around the Shanghai International Circuit.
Two layers of Hamilton and two race bulls, such as ISACK HADJAR and Yuki Tsunoda, were not rewarded.
Another question was whether Norris could challenge teammates and championship rivals, but the disappeared brake pedal, which was virtually not present in the last lab, had little in the lab he paid, and Norris was good to stop Russell, which spends another good day for Mercedes.
It was the 50th 1-2 in McLaren’s history and is actually on the roll these days.
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Lando Norris took the second place in the Chinese GP. After an important braking problem, George Russell is breathing his neck.
Liam Lawson and Jack Doohan had a fairly desperate race, blocking and overtaking that Liam Lawson and Jack Doohan, who felt unfairly on the drive at the beginning of the season, were in the field. There may be a change.
The second consecutive race Fernando Alonso was not over due to the rear brake problem.
Ferrari pain after misunderstanding
The stabs in the tail were disqualified after the race of Ferraris and Pierre Gari. LeclerC and Gasly were abandoned due to some low weight. Rather, as we saw in the spa with George Russell last year, we put tire treads on a long term in a set of tires. In addition, the lace face was powerful and there was no safety vehicle, so the fuel consumption was high and consumed more mass. The broken front wing of the LeclerC could be replaced, but it was still underweight. In the way you cut it, it is the team’s wrong calculation so that you do not leave enough margins for all situations.
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Hamilton was frustrated by Ferrari’s performance after ranking sixth in the Chinese Grand Prix.
Hamilton’s car was abandoned to run too close to the ground and wore too much legitimate skid block below 0.5 millimeters. This rule is intended to prevent the team that runs this ground effect aer to improve the performance, but it is to prevent it from throwing away the very expensive floor every day.
Especially in Italian media, despite the sprint victory, it will be a painful reading for Ferrari this week.
Kimi Antonelli was a relatively quiet but solid race for being a slight floor damage in the first lap and ranked sixth after disqualification. Fans knew what we did when we were selected as the driver of the day.
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Mercedes’ team principal TOTO WOLFF and driver KIMI Antonelli exchanged radio messages after a rookie got today’s driver in the Grand Prix of China.
Others who got the place after race were the VERSTAPPEPEN, Esteban Ocon and Bearman, Williams Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz, and Lance Stroll of Aston Martin, who inherited more scores.
Norris scored more scores in China than VestAppen in the championship. But more ominous for him, PiaStri is now only 10 points behind. Next is Suzuka. It will be intense between mclaren pairing.
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