🚨AVERAGE SECTOR TIMES IN CHINA SPRINT

Verstappen unmatched in S2 and S3
Alpine with a good performance in S1, Zhou in S2.

🚨DRS EFFICIENCY IN CHINA QUALY

1 - Kick Sauber: 9.18%
2 - Aston Martin: 8.74%
3 - Williams: 8.74%
4 - Alpine: 8.58%
5 - Ferrari: 8.47%
6 - Red Bull Racing: 8.39%
7 - RB: 8.09%
8 - Haas F1 Team: 8.04%
9 - Mercedes: 7.74%
10 - McLaren: 7.12%

🚨SHANGHAI FASTEST QUALY LAP EVOLUTION

🟠2004: 1:34.012 - Barrichello
🔴2005: 1:34.080 - Alonso (+0.068s)
🔴2006: 1:43.951 - Alonso (+9.871s) *WET
🟢2007: 1:35.381 - Räikkönen (-8.570s)
🟢2008: 1:34.947 - Hamilton (-0.434s)
🔴2009: 1:35.130 - Vettel (+0.183s)
🟢2010: 1:34.558 -

🚨LOGAN SARGEANT QUALY PERFORMANCE

🔴Albon 0.191s faster in 2023 Bahrain GP in Q1
🔴Albon 0.595s faster in 2023 Australian GP in Q1
🔴Albon 0.577s faster in 2023 Azerbaijan GP in Q2
🔴Albon 0.343s faster in 2023 Miami GP in Q1
🔴Albon 0.407s faster in 2023 Monaco GP in Q1

Tomorrow will be the 4th time that Verstappen and Pérez will share the front row. Onwon all the previous occasions, Verstappen took pole and win.

2022: Abu Dhabi GP
2023: Bahrain GP
2024: Japanese GP

More than 4 hours later, the FIA still doesn't know what a stopped car means

🚨OPTIMAL LAP TIMES IN CHINA QUALY

It was hard for everyone to put the 3 sectors all together.

1 - VER: 1:33.644 (-0.016s)
2 - PER: 1:33.860 (-0.122s)
3 - ALO: 1:34.016 (-0.132s)
4 - NOR: 1:34.073 (-0.092s)
5 - LEC: 1:34.131 (-0.158s)
6 - SAI: 1:34.145 (-0.152s)
7 - PIA:

We saw an approximate improvement of 12-17 km/h in the top speeds compared to the sprint qualifying.

🚨FASTEST SECTOR TIMES IN CHINA QUALY

S1 - Pérez: 24.910s
S2 - Verstappen: 28.168s
S3 - Verstappen: 40.511s

Ferrari and Mercedes with an awful S1
Hulkenberg top 3 in S1
Hamilton costly mistake in turn 14, only faster than Sargeant in S3

🚨TOP SPEEDS IN CHINA QUALY

🔥Multiple drivers with 336 km/h!!
⚠️Alpine and McLaren at the bottom

Alonso tomorrow trying to hold that P3

42 years old

Both Ferrari's have been 4 tenths slower than in Q2

Lance Stroll outqualified Yuki Tsunoda for the first time this season (excluding sprint qualifyings)

Hamilton in the sprint qualy Vs. Hamilton in the normal qualy

Alonso serving his 10 second penalty in the sprint race