ROUND 2: 🇨🇳 China
FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN CHINESE GRAND PRIX 2026
Weekend Schedule
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- Practice 1: Friday, 05:30 CET | 04:30 UTC
- Sprint Qualifying: Friday, 09:30 CET | 08:30 UTC
- Sprint: Saturday, 05:00 CET | 04:00 UTC
- Qualifying: Saturday, 09:00 CET | 08:00 UTC
- Race: Sunday, 09:00 CEST | 07:00 UTC (Note: Daylight saving time starts)
Circuit stats & Tyres
- 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)
- 2025 Pole: Oscar Piastri (1:30.641)
- 2025 Fastest Lap: Lando Norris (1:35.454)
- 2025 winner: Oscar Piastri
- Pirelli Tyres: C2 (Hard) ⚪, C3 (Medium) 🟡, C4 (Soft) 🔴
Track Map
8 Comments
Goodeye8@piefed.social · 8 pts · 164d
I'm just going to complain a bit. Why didn't Kimi Antonelli get a penalty for blocking Norris? Norris literally said he's was going to push this lap and Antonelli was in the way and ruined his push lap. Even if it wasn't a push lap for Norris, he was still driving fast and Antonelli was driving slow and being in the way. They literally gave Verstappen a penalty for blocking Russell when Russel was on a warmup lap, sped up all on his own and then got blocked by Verstappen when his speeding made him catch up to Verstappen. We have two almost identical scenarios with two completely opposite verdicts.
I've got nothing against Antonelli. I'm not a Norris fan. I don't have a stake in the matter. I just want some fucking consistency in the stewarding.
troed@fedia.io · 6 pts · 165d
Max to Indycar 2027
hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 165d
Sad to think that Norris and Russell will be the only WDCs on the grid in 2027
/s?
bananabread@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 164d
yay!
hsr@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 165d
It's the 2nd weekend of this ruleset and they're less than a second away from 2025 quali times.
FBJimmy@lemmus.org · 3 pts · 165d
The schedule times above are off by an hour in some cases - this from the official app:
UTC isn't adjusted for daylight savings, so maybe that's the source of the error?
It's also not daylight savings in Europe (CET/BST) until 29th March and China doesn't do daylight savings...
wes@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 165d
yeah this weekends schedule is a bit wonky, will look at it later
troed@fedia.io · 1 pts · 165d
Go Alonso!