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2024 Chinese Grand Prix - [SPRINT QUALIFYING] discussion thread (self.formula1)

submitted 4 months ago by wes to c/formula1

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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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

The rain made it a fun watch.

I hope the rain will help with the turn 5 fires.

[–] lazycouchpotato 4 points 4 months ago

Slept midway through it unfortunately. Had to watch the replay. SQ3 was exciting. The last qualifying that was this exciting was 2023 Monaco.

[–] wes 4 points 4 months ago

That was so great to watch :)

[–] wes 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Fire again?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

My guess is that the 'grass' is actually paint or painted grass and it is the paint that caught on fire.

[–] Entropywins 2 points 4 months ago

Fire n rain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] GreatRam 1 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good for Sauber! 👏

[–] Entropywins 3 points 4 months ago

I'm pumped for Zhou!!!