China 2024: Race analysis

At a glance

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap
1	Verstappen	Red Bull	1:34.742	1:33.794	1:33.660
2	Pérez	Red Bull	1:35.457	1:34.026	1:33.982	+0.322
3	Alonso	Aston Martin	1:35.116	1:34.652	1:34.148	+0.488
4	Norris	McLaren	1:34.842	1:34.460	1:34.165	+0.505
5	Piastri	McLaren	1:35.014	1:34.659	1:34.273	+0.613
6	Leclerc	Ferrari	1:34.797	1:34.399	1:34.289	+0.629
7	Sainz Jr.	Ferrari	1:34.970	1:34.368	1:34.297	+0.637
8	Russell	Mercedes	1:35.084	1:34.609	1:34.433	+0.773
9	Hülkenberg	Haas	1:35.068	1:34.667	1:34.604	+0.944
10	Bottas	Kick Sauber	1:35.169	1:34.769	1:34.665	+1.005
11	Stroll	Aston Martin	1:35.334	1:34.838		+1.044
12	Ricciardo	RB	1:35.443	1:34.934		+1.140
13	Ocon	Alpine	1:35.356	1:35.223		+1.429
14	Albon	Williams	1:35.384	1:35.241		+1.447
15	Gasly	Alpine	1:35.287	1:35.463		+1.669
16	Zhou	Kick Sauber	1:35.505			+0.763
17	Magnussen	Haas	1:35.516			+0.774
18	Hamilton	Mercedes	1:35.573			+0.831
19	Tsunoda	RB	1:35.746			+1.004
20	Sargeant	Williams	1:36.358			+1.616

Gap to the fastest time in the last session the driver took part in. Yellow: fastest time of the session.

Pos	Driver	Team	SQ1	SQ2	SQ3	Gap
1	Norris	McLaren	1:36.384	1:36.047	1:57.940
2	Hamilton	Mercedes	1:37.181	1:36.287	1:59.201	+1.261
3	Alonso	Aston Martin	1:36.883	1:36.119	1:59.915	+1.975
4	Verstappen	Red Bull	1:36.456	1:35.606	2:00.028	+2.088
5	Sainz Jr.	Ferrari	1:36.719	1:36.052	2:00.214	+2.274
6	Pérez	Red Bull	1:36.110	1:35.781	2:00.375	+2.435
7	Leclerc	Ferrari	1:36.537	1:35.711	2:00.566	+2.626
8	Piastri	McLaren	1:36.542	1:35.853	2:00.990	+3.050
9	Bottas	Kick Sauber	1:37.112	1:36.056	2:01.044	+3.104
10	Zhou	Kick Sauber	1:37.544	1:36.307	2:03.537	+5.597
11	Russell	Mercedes	1:37.310	1:36.345		+0.739
12	Magnussen	Haas	1:37.033	1:36.473		+0.867
13	Hülkenberg	Haas	1:36.924	1:36.478		+0.872
14	Ricciardo	RB	1:37.321	1:36.553		+0.947
15	Stroll	Aston Martin	1:36.961	1:36.677		+1.071
16	Gasly	Alpine	1:37.632			+1.522
17	Ocon	Alpine	1:37.720			+1.610
18	Albon	Williams	1:37.812			+1.702
19	Tsunoda	RB	1:37.892			+1.782
20	Sargeant	Williams	1:37.923			+1.813

Gap to the fastest time in the last session the driver took part in. Yellow: fastest time of the session.

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Gap	Points
1	Verstappen	Red Bull	4	32:04.660	8
2	Hamilton	Mercedes	2	+13.043	7
3	Pérez	Red Bull	6	+15.258	6
4	Leclerc	Ferrari	7	+17.486	5
5	Sainz Jr.	Ferrari	5	+20.696	4
6	Norris	McLaren	1	+22.088	3
7	Piastri	McLaren	8	+24.713	2
8	Russell	Mercedes	11	+25.696	1
9	Zhou	Kick Sauber	10	+31.951
10	Magnussen	Haas	12	+37.398
11	Ricciardo	RB	14	+37.840
12	Bottas	Kick Sauber	9	+38.295
13	Ocon	Alpine	17	+39.841
14	Stroll	Aston Martin	15	+40.299
15	Gasly	Alpine	16	+40.838
16	Tsunoda	RB	19	+41.870
17	Albon	Williams	18	+42.998
18	Sargeant	Williams	20	+46.352
19	Hülkenberg	Haas	13	+49.630
20	Alonso	Aston Martin	3	Collision damage

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Laps	Gap	Stops	Engine
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1	56	1:40:52.554	2	Honda RBPT
2	Lando NorrisDriver of the Day	McLaren	4	56	+13.773	1	Mercedes
3	Sergio Pérez	Red Bull	2	56	+19.160	2	Honda RBPT
4	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	6	56	+23.623	1	Ferrari
5	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Ferrari	7	56	+33.983	1	Ferrari
6	George Russell	Mercedes	8	56	+38.724	2	Mercedes
7	Fernando AlonsoFastest lap	Aston Martin	3	56	+43.414	3	Mercedes
8	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	5	56	+56.198	2	Mercedes
9	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	18	56	+57.986	2	Mercedes
10	Nico Hülkenberg	Haas	9	56	+1:00.476	2	Ferrari
11	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	13	56	+1:02.812	2	Renault
12	Alexander Albon	Williams	14	56	+1:05.506	2	Mercedes
13	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	15	56	+1:09.223	3	Renault
14	Guanyu Zhou	Kick Sauber	16	56	+1:11.689	3	Ferrari
15	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	11	56	+1:22.786	4	Mercedes
16	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	17	56	+1:27.533	2	Ferrari
17	Logan Sargeant	Williams	PL	56	+1:35.110	2	Mercedes
DNF	Daniel Ricciardo	RB	12	33	Collision damage	1	Honda RBPT
DNF	Yuki Tsunoda	RB	19	26	Collision	2	Honda RBPT
DNF	Valtteri Bottas	Kick Sauber	10	19	Engine	1	Ferrari

Starting grid vs qualifying

Sargeant Qualified 20, started PL

Penalties and pit lane starts. Everyone else moves up accordingly.

Race

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Places gained

Hamilton18→9+9
SargeantPL→17+3
Norris4→2+2
Leclerc6→4+2
Sainz Jr.7→5+2
Russell8→6+2
Ocon13→11+2
Albon14→12+2
Gasly15→13+2
Zhou16→14+2
Magnussen17→16+1
Verstappen1→10
Pérez2→3-1
Hülkenberg9→10-1
Piastri5→8-3
Alonso3→7-4
Stroll11→15-4

PL: started from the pit lane. Retired drivers are listed below.

Fastest pit stops

1Pérez22.027R13
2Norris22.161R22
3Piastri22.262R24
4Verstappen22.270R23
5Leclerc22.360R21
6Pérez22.371R23
7Tsunoda22.387R23
8Russell22.415R11
9Verstappen22.456R13
10Hamilton22.518R9

Time in the pit lane from entry to exit, in seconds.

Stints of the top 10

Verstappen1310332 stops
Norris22341 stop
Pérez1310332 stops
Leclerc21351 stop
Sainz Jr.17391 stop
Russell1112332 stops
Alonso111220133 stops
Piastri168322 stops
Hamilton912352 stops
Hülkenberg815332 stops

Stint length in laps, worked out from the pit stops. Which tyre compound was used per stint needs a licence for timing data, so it is not shown here. Lapped drivers covered fewer laps, so their bar ends earlier.

Retirements

RicciardoCollision damageRB
TsunodaCollisionRB
BottasEngineKick Sauber

This race in history

16 races here since 2004Won from pole: 9 of 16

Win from furthest back (P6): Michael Schumacher 2006

Most wins here

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Statistics: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk and contributors, licence CC BY 4.0, prepared by Hotlap Delta.

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