Very good day to the bravest ones!!! In just over an hour (05:30h) begin Free Practice for the Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix. After 1 week of break, the maximum automobile competition returns and it does so with the first weekend a little different, a sprint weekend. This totally changes the structure of the weekend, since today, after this session, there is already the first Classificationwhich will be used to determine the grid for the sprint race. Therefore, in these free sessions we will see a lot of action on the track, since it is the only training session that the drivers will have, on a circuit that has not been on the calendar since 2019.
Fernando Alonso comes to Shanghai with homework done. Next to Aston Martin They announced the renewal. Now, on a circuit that has everything, fast corners, slow corners, straights, etc. It remains to be confirmed whether the AMR24 improvements that worked in Japan continue to work on this route. For its part, Carlos Sainz He arrives in one of his best states of form. The one of Ferrari He is being the leader of his team and has not been off the podium in any of the grand prix where he has raced this season. We’ll see if the SF-24 can be close to the Red Bull in China, since in Japan It wasn’t that far away, although it was behind.
Another unknown is Mercedes, which this year is a permanent question. In some sessions they work and in others they don’t, but they are still far from Ferrari and even McLaren is ahead of the Germans. Besides, Lewis Hamilton He is facing one of his worst starts to the season. Don’t go to sleep, the action on the Shanghai circuit begins in no time.
