RACE PACE - #ChineseGP SPRINT

🥇No one could match VER: 0.74s/lap quicker than anyone else!

🥈LEC was 2nd quickest, then🥉PER (+0.79s/lap) and ALO (+0.80s/lap). HAM was in the mix, too (+0.82s/lap)

McLaren was uncompetitive

What's your prediction for the race?🤔 #F1

TOP SPEEDS - SPRINT SHOOTOUT

Nine teams were in a narrow 3km/h range:
-Fastest (322km/h): Aston, Haas and Williams
-Slower: (319km/h): McL and Ferrari
-Slowest (just 315km/h): Alpine (high drag and, despite that, the drivers had to brake sooner than most!)

#F1 #ChineseGP

FASTEST SECTORS - FP1 #chineseGP

Mercedes/ ALO on Hards
Others on Softs

🟠NOR quickest in the twisty S1 by far:
-McL is showing excellent grip
-Most teams are probably still far from the limits
He aborted the lap while in Sector 3

🟢STR: quickest in S2
🟡RBR: quickest in S3

MINISECTORS - FP1 #ChineseGP
🟢STR was quickest on the main straight, and out of T3/T8/T12
🟠PIA fast in the twisty S1 and S3
🟡VER quickest in S3 (long straight)

Laptimes still very slow (almost 5s to last pole)➡️Hard to guess the running order!
Aston: 324km/h (+4km/h vs McL)

The #ChineseGP features a 1.4km full-throttle section!➡️Top speed: crucial for lap time and to attack/defend💡

Image: top speed achieved in the last qualifying, during each team's best lap

🟢Aston has solved their drag issues, contrary to ⚫️Mercedes and 🟠McL

🔴Ferrari will

🗒️NOTES ON #ChineseGP

-First race in 5 years! First time with 18' rims🛞
-First sprint of 2024
-Similar to Bahrain, where Aston struggled and Merc edged McL. That was 4 races ago, though!
-2 stops are likely
-1.4km full-throttle section🚀

📸 Pirelli Motorsport
Your prediction? 🤔

Remember the Machine Learning model that tried to predict undercut attempts?🤖

Fantastic news: all the scripts and the 114-page report have been uploaded to GitHub!😁

You will find it here👇
github.com/laurence9899/F…

Kudos to Laurence Hearne for creating it!

Perez overtook both Mercedes cars in 2 laps, but overtaking Hamilton was way harder!

-HAM reached 303km/h
-RUS just 292km/h (much weaker ERS deployment🪫)

Due to Russell's bad straight-line speed, PER could get the slipstream sooner, further increasing his top speed
#F1

Ferrari made TWO strategies work brilliantly: good strategy, tyre wear, and driving!👌

Check out the last stint (on ⚪️Hards): after pitting, SAI was 2s/lap quicker than LEC, who was managing his older tyres
LEC pushed more and more in that stint as the finish line got closer

SECTOR TIMES - #JapaneseGP

🔥Sainz's sectors were on fire in his last stint!

HAM was quick on 🟡Mediums (on a fresher set). However, Mercedes lacked consistency: notice the big gap in S1 and S2 between the first and second ⚪️Hard sets!⚠️

Made via JMP Software #YesJMPcan #F1