2025 Chinese Grand Prix sprint race grid

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   Anon
   21st March 2025, 8:22

   Great jobs by Hamilton % Verstappen.

   Lawson…woeful
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      Esploratore (@esploratore1)
      21st March 2025, 8:29

      Yes, nowadays I watch on a free switzerland broadcast and one of the commentator pointed out how it’s odd that lawson is not performing at all now he’s on red bull, as it’s not like he was incapable at “toro rosso”, and the same goes for several of his predecessors: albon and gasly both did fine in midfield teams but not at red bull, perez did ok for the first 1,5 years at red bull, then was no longer competitive, and he was also a specialist in the midfield.

      Hamilton getting pole was unexpected, I had seen some positive signs in quali in australia, but didn’t expect him to be faster than leclerc here already, nor a ferrari this competitive.
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      Esploratore (@esploratore1)
      21st March 2025, 8:30

      Also, why did norris interrupt his last lap? It seemed good until the final sector, strange decision imo since he was far behind, even if he thought pole wasn’t on.
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         Anon
         21st March 2025, 8:33

         I think he might have been held up by Tsunoda…Let’s hear the conspiracy theorists come in about Red Bull 4 drivers.
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            GIZZLE
            21st March 2025, 8:38

            So not True about Tsunoda. He missen the hairpin
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               erikje (@erikje)
               21st March 2025, 8:42

               +1 Tsunoda is fake news. Norris just made too many mistakes.

               Their run plan wasn’t ideal either so expect a McLaren 1-2 in tomorrow’s qualifying.
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         hunocsi (@hunocsi)
         21st March 2025, 8:41

         Norris had a huge lock-up in the hairpin.
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         LosD (@losd)
         21st March 2025, 8:51

         He left the track after a lockup, so time would have been lost anyway.
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         Doggy
         21st March 2025, 12:42

         Lando Bottled both if his runs in q3. He was well on his way to take pole in his second run.
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   Sham (@sham)
   21st March 2025, 8:27

   There’s the pace that we thought Ferrari had after Bahrain, and should hopefully silence a few Hamilton doubters, he does still have it in him. LeClerc is one of the outright fastest drivers there is.
   It seems that Red Bull are still really quick on fresh soft tyres, but weren’t really on the harder compounds – we’ll see.
   And Lando obviously has a lot of pace, but is pressuring himself.
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      SteveP
      21st March 2025, 8:44

      There’s the pace that we thought Ferrari had after Bahrain, and should hopefully silence a few Hamilton doubters,

      Too much excitement. It’s front slot on the grid for a Mario Kart session, at the 2nd GP weekend of the season.
      Chance of LH & MV surviving the first lap?
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         David BR (@david-br)
         21st March 2025, 11:13

         Both things can be true. Hamilton’s performance was top level, no decline evident; he needs to be consistent over a season (same goes for anyone non-Verstappen since 2021 of course). But you can’t say he’s now simply incapable of producing his best title-winning level of pace because he’s just shown it. In his second GP weekend at Ferrari, not bad. He flipped a 0.2 deficit to Leclerc into a 0.2 advantage. As for the Mario Kart session? Yes, a distinct possibility.
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   Yes (@come-on-kubica)
   21st March 2025, 8:29

   What happened to Norris? I’m not going to watch this nonsense gimmick but interested.
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      Tom
      21st March 2025, 8:33

      He spun out trying to avoid a stray dog.
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      S
      21st March 2025, 9:03

      I’m not going to watch this nonsense gimmick

      A qualifying session?
      Or Formula 1?
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   Rom
   21st March 2025, 8:37

   So when are we actually going to start asking questions about the Red Bull Jr program and if it is actually any good? Ever since Ricciardo left they have not found someone in their own ranks to fill the 2nd seat consistently.

   Sainz, Gasly and Albon are all F1 talents but they had to make a detour to get where they are now. What point is there in having a jr team when every post Ricciardo ‘graduate’ failed in the main team? The turnover rate for drivers is horrendous for what it is meant for even forcing them to get an outsider in Perez.

   And I don’t count Max as a RB Jr cause he was only a Jr for 2 months before being signed to the Toro Rosso unlike the rest who went through the whole F3, F2 program.
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   MG1982 (@mg1982)
   21st March 2025, 8:43

   Weird what’s going on at RBR with the performance and 2nd driver too.

   Great to see a positive turnaround of performance at Ferrari when it matters in 2025. Hopefully HAM will convert this P1 into a win too tomorrow.
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      S
      21st March 2025, 9:06

      Weird what’s going on at RBR with the performance and 2nd driver too.

      It’s not weird anymore. They’ve been doing it for 15 years already.
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   Ajaxn
   21st March 2025, 9:34

   Ferarri last year were 6 and 7.
   So, great job, Ferrrari. It helps that this circuit was all about experience.
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      Ajaxn
      21st March 2025, 12:35

      Scratch this. Just realised this is just the sprints. Which is little better than an advanced practice.

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