ROUND 5: 🇨🇳 China
FORMULA 1 LENOVO CHINESE GRAND PRIX 2024
Circuit stats
- First Grand Prix: 2004
- Number of laps: 56
- Circuit Length: 5.451 km
- Race Distance: 305.066 km
- Lap record: 1:32.238 Michael Schumacher (2004)
- 2023 winner: N/A
Track Map
The rain made it a fun watch.
I hope the rain will help with the turn 5 fires.
Fire again?
My guess is that the ‘grass’ is actually paint or painted grass and it is the paint that caught on fire.
Fire n rain
And apparently no one in the media pit has an idea why. My local TV Station just “tasked” Bernd Mayländer with asking race control about it :D
Well it’s because of the sparks. But why the sparks are only catching this grass on fire is the mystery. I’d guess there was a crash in the past and there is still left over oil or gasoline.
That was so great to watch :)
Slept midway through it unfortunately. Had to watch the replay. SQ3 was exciting. The last qualifying that was this exciting was 2023 Monaco.
Good for Sauber! 👏
I’m pumped for Zhou!!!