2024 Chinese GP

[dialtone]

Pirelli increased min tire pressures by 1 psi.

why ? is the track temp 10+ degrees higher than yesterday ?

It was changed based on inspection of the used tires from the sprint race.

Today I join the people saying they suck. They wait after quali to raise the pressure post sprint, when every car is back in parc ferme.

[AR3-GP]

I think Alonso will start on softs like Japan.

[maxxer]

Can anyone tell the presenters that all that shouting doesnt make a race more interesting ? Tone down dudes its annoying

[DGP123]

Max is away and gone. Alonso the cork again. Hamilton’s softs not working.

[Spacepace]

Overtakes are going to be hard today. I suspect they will happen from strategy instead

[GrizzleBoy]

Looks like tyre warmup is a big thing on thing on this track at these temperatures. Its taking a while before some cars can really start driving in their representative performance windows.

[Spacepace]

Looks like tyre warmup is a big thing on thing on this track at these temperatures. Its taking a while before some cars can really start driving in their representative performance windows.

But yet there is deg. Hard to find a balance

[DGP123]

Looks like the action was yesterday.

[AMG.Tzan]

Hamilton was incredibly poor today. Let Max get into DRS during the sprint with a big error and again in qualy, not even out of Q3 due to his own errors. Russell meanwhile showing what the car is capable off in qualy.

Imagine calling finishing P2 ahead of way faster cars “poor”

I mean the guy did everything right in the Sprint! I don’t know why people keep pointing to the lockup as the reason he got passed by Max! The rest couldn’t even beat Perez…

Red Bull was over 1 second faster in the Sprint! Max would have got by irrespective of Lewis making a mistake…

Question is what happened to that pace in quali, P18 is disastrous. Maybe Alonso holding the others off in the Sprint saved Hammy's bacon.

Looking at the race now I still can’t understand how he ended up second in the Sprint! Even if Alonso was holding up the others this pace is embarrassing…can’t even catch an Alpine

[GrizzleBoy]

Did the one stoppers just win here?

[Spacepace]

Holy --- finally called a vsc. That was dangerous

[DGP123]

VSC out for so long, and then a full SC

[AMG.Tzan]

Why are they so reluctant to use the Safety Car?

Can’t really understand F1’s logic all these years! Americans do it all the time and it makes racing so much more exciting and unpredictable!

[GrizzleBoy]

Race control really influencing the race quite heavily here.

[Rikhart]

Someone please tell me why all circuits aren't mandated to have a crane/lorry every 100 meters? I mean this is a bit embarrassing and keeps happening, the time to clear a very simple stopped car is ridiculous.