Round 03 · 2019

Chinese Grand Prix

Shanghai, China12–14 Apr

Drawn from car positions, 2026 FP1

Practice 1
Fri 02:00
Data published
track 33° ·air 17° ·44% hum ·4.3 km/h wind
Practice 2
Fri 06:00
Data published
track 32° ·air 19° ·37% hum ·6.8 km/h wind
Practice 3
Sat 03:00
Data published
track 40° ·air 20° ·48% hum ·4.3 km/h wind
Qualifying
Sat 06:00
Data published
track 34° ·air 21° ·48% hum ·4.0 km/h wind
Fantasy lock
Grand Prix
Sun 06:10
Data published
track 27° ·air 19° ·46% hum ·11.9 km/h wind

Times in UTC

Grand Prix result

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Moved	Time / gap	Pts
1	HAM	Mercedes	2	1	1:32:06.350	25
2	BOT	Mercedes	1	1	+6.552	18
3	VET	Ferrari	3	—	+13.774	15
4	VER	Red Bull Racing	5	1	+27.627	12
5	LEC	Ferrari	4	1	+31.276	10
6	GAS	Toro Rosso	6	—	+89.307	9
7	RIC	Renault	7	—	+1 Lap	6
8	PER	Racing Point	12	4	+1 Lap	4
9	RAI	Alfa Romeo Racing	13	4	+1 Lap	2
10	ALB	Red Bull Racing	—	—	+1 Lap	1
11	GRO	Haas F1 Team	10	1	+1 Lap
12	STR	Racing Point	16	4	+1 Lap
13	MAG	Haas F1 Team	9	4	+1 Lap
14	SAI	McLaren	14	—	+1 Lap
15	GIO	Alfa Romeo Racing	19	4	+1 Lap
16	RUS	Williams	17	1	+2 Laps
17	KUB	Williams	18	1	+2 Laps
18	NOR	McLaren	15	3	Collision
19	KVY	Toro Rosso	11	8	Collision
20	HUL	Renault	8	12	Power Unit

Qualifying

Pos	Driver	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap to pole
1	BOT	1:32.658	1:31.728	1:31.547
2	HAM	1:33.115	1:31.637	1:31.570	+0.023
3	VET	1:33.557	1:32.232	1:31.848	+0.301
4	LEC	1:32.712	1:32.324	1:31.865	+0.318
5	VER	1:33.274	1:32.369	1:32.089	+0.542
6	GAS	1:33.863	1:32.948	1:32.930	+1.383
7	RIC	1:33.709	1:33.214	1:32.958	+1.411
8	HUL	1:33.644	1:33.968	1:32.962	+1.415
9	MAG	1:34.036	1:33.150	—	+1.603
10	GRO	1:33.752	1:33.156	—	+1.609
11	KVY	1:33.783	1:33.236	—	+1.689
12	PER	1:34.026	1:33.299	—	+1.752
13	RAI	1:34.125	1:33.419	—	+1.872
14	SAI	1:33.686	1:33.523	—	+1.976
15	NOR	1:34.148	1:33.967	—	+2.420
16	STR	1:34.292	—	—	+2.745
17	RUS	1:35.253	—	—	+3.706
18	KUB	1:35.281	—	—	+3.734
—	ALB	—	—	—
—	GIO	—	—	—

How the weekend has moved

Practice 11:33.911run 1:40.422

Practice 21:33.330−0.581run 1:40.857

Practice 31:32.830−0.500run 1:37.849

Qualifying1:31.547−1.283

Grand Prix1:34.742+3.195run 1:40.556

Fastest lap of each session, the change from the session before, and the midfield's median fuel-corrected long run. Times normally tumble as the track rubbers in.

Shanghai in earlier seasons

20191:32.830run 1:40.498

20181:33.018+0.188run 1:40.226

Fastest practice lap per season at this circuit. Layout changes, resurfacing and weather all move these numbers, so read them as context rather than a like-for-like comparison.

Practice 1

Fri 12 Apr, 02:00 UTCFastestVET1:33.911

Single-lap pace

VET1:33.911—19 laps

HAM1:34.118+0.20721 laps

LEC1:34.167+0.25621 laps

VER1:34.334+0.42320 laps

BOT1:34.653+0.74223 laps

RIC1:35.239+1.32823 laps

GAS1:35.428+1.51723 laps

KVY1:35.447+1.53624 laps

STR1:35.466+1.55525 laps

GRO1:35.507+1.59624 laps

MAG1:35.517+1.60625 laps

HUL1:35.591+1.68022 laps

NOR1:35.631+1.72024 laps

ALB1:35.695+1.78426 laps

RAI1:35.729+1.81823 laps

SAI1:35.756+1.84524 laps

PER1:35.820+1.90924 laps

KUB1:36.847+2.93627 laps

RUS1:37.619+3.70829 laps

Best lap regardless of fuel load or compound — a sighting shot, not a form guide.

Long runs, fuel-corrected

Driver	Tyre	Laps	Fuel-corrected	Gap	Spread	Deg / lap
KVY	M	7*	1:39.847	—	±0.726	—
BOT	S	6*	1:39.854	+0.007	±0.696	—
VER	S	6*	1:40.032	+0.185	±0.550	—
HAM	S	6*	1:40.130	+0.283	±0.785	—
RIC	S	5*	1:40.178	+0.331	±0.302	—
ALB	M	5*	1:40.399	+0.552	±0.272	—
PER	M	6*	1:40.445	+0.598	±0.232	—
NOR	S	5*	1:40.653	+0.806	±0.262	—
GAS	M	5*	1:40.753	+0.906	±0.455	—
STR	M	6*	1:41.044	+1.197	±0.300	—
KUB	M	5*	1:41.785	+1.938	±0.216	—
RUS	M	7*	1:41.974	+2.127	±0.286	—

Each driver's longest clean stint, using green-flag laps only. Cool-down laps go first (anything more than 7% slower than that stint's best), then laps sitting well above the stint's own trend — traffic and mistakes — and a stint is discarded entirely if what remains isn't one continuous run. Times are corrected for fuel burn at 60 ms per lap, measured from 2024 race stints rather than assumed. Runs under eight laps (marked *) get no degradation figure, because a trend through so few laps is noise. Teams don't publish fuel loads, and 15 kg is worth about 0.4s a lap, so read these as driver groupings rather than exact gaps, and compare runs on the same compound.

Sectors and the lap they could have done

Driver	S1	S2	S3	Ideal lap	Best lap	Left out
VET	24.776	27.852	41.235	1:33.863	1:33.911	0.048
HAM	24.793	27.830	41.495	1:34.118	1:34.118	0.000
LEC	24.729	27.722	41.692	1:34.143	1:34.167	0.024
VER	24.695	27.898	41.639	1:34.232	1:34.334	0.102
BOT	24.668	28.234	41.632	1:34.534	1:34.653	0.119
GAS	25.070	28.017	41.792	1:34.879	1:35.428	0.549
GRO	25.050	28.284	41.833	1:35.167	1:35.507	0.340
RIC	25.127	28.274	41.838	1:35.239	1:35.239	0.000
KVY	25.197	28.284	41.891	1:35.372	1:35.447	0.075
MAG	25.251	28.311	41.879	1:35.441	1:35.517	0.076
STR	25.179	28.178	42.109	1:35.466	1:35.466	0.000
HUL	25.109	28.390	41.985	1:35.484	1:35.591	0.107
PER	25.182	28.403	41.924	1:35.509	1:35.820	0.311
SAI	25.222	28.343	41.993	1:35.558	1:35.756	0.198
NOR	25.246	28.323	42.062	1:35.631	1:35.631	0.000
ALB	25.312	28.490	41.860	1:35.662	1:35.695	0.033
RAI	25.279	28.649	41.745	1:35.673	1:35.729	0.056
KUB	25.589	28.714	42.289	1:36.592	1:36.847	0.255
RUS	25.932	29.062	42.604	1:37.598	1:37.619	0.021

Best sector times are usually set on different laps, so their sum — the ideal lap — is quicker than anyone's actual best. The last column is the time left out there. Purple marks the session's fastest sector.

What the tyres are worth here

SSoft — referenceM+0.723(5 drivers ran both)Honly 2 drivers ran both — too few to price

Measured within each driver — only drivers who set a representative time on both compounds count — then averaged, so this isn't distorted by who happened to run which tyre. A lap counts only if it is within 2% of that driver's own best of the session, which keeps genuine runs on a slower tyre while dropping in-laps and aborted runs that would otherwise masquerade as a compound's best. A compound fewer than three drivers tried is listed but not priced. Even so, these laps aren't all qualifying simulations, so read this as the order of the compounds rather than an exact price.

Team-mates, head to head

FerrariVETahead of LEC+0.256

MercedesHAMahead of BOT+0.535

Red Bull RacingVERahead of ALB+1.361

RenaultRICahead of HUL+0.352

Toro RossoGASahead of KVY+0.019

Racing PointSTRahead of PER+0.354

Haas F1 TeamGROahead of MAG+0.010

McLarenNORahead of SAI+0.125

WilliamsKUBahead of RUS+0.772

Same car, so the gap on their best lap is the clearest read on the driver available.

Stints and compounds

VET161551

HAM759

LEC1717113

VER1739

BOT7610

RIC11768

GAS2678

KVY153510

STR28510

GRO1977

MAG1987

HUL1777

NOR19518

ALB14579

RAI171716

SAI193371

PER27510

KUB19179

RUS17343101

GIO11

SSoftMMediumHHard

Practice 2

Fri 12 Apr, 06:00 UTCFastestBOT1:33.330

Single-lap pace

BOT1:33.330—37 laps

VET1:33.357+0.02733 laps

VER1:33.551+0.22129 laps

HAM1:34.037+0.70732 laps

HUL1:34.096+0.76631 laps

SAI1:34.141+0.81136 laps

LEC1:34.158+0.82813 laps

NOR1:34.296+0.96638 laps

RIC1:34.336+1.00632 laps

GAS1:34.455+1.12532 laps

RAI1:34.551+1.22133 laps

ALB1:34.634+1.30437 laps

KVY1:34.694+1.36420 laps

STR1:34.779+1.44937 laps

PER1:34.784+1.45435 laps

MAG1:34.788+1.45834 laps

GRO1:35.704+2.37432 laps

GIO1:35.914+2.58440 laps

KUB1:36.121+2.79138 laps

RUS1:36.229+2.89935 laps

Best lap regardless of fuel load or compound — a sighting shot, not a form guide.

Long runs, fuel-corrected

Driver	Tyre	Laps	Fuel-corrected	Gap	Spread	Deg / lap
KVY	H	9	1:39.215	—	±0.580	+0.154s
BOT	H	12	1:39.352	+0.137	±0.487	+0.117s
HAM	M	10	1:39.787	+0.572	±0.653	+0.158s
RIC	M	8	1:39.928	+0.713	±0.365	−0.024s
VER	S	8	1:40.055	+0.840	±0.544	+0.143s
GAS	S	8	1:40.415	+1.200	±0.799	+0.296s
ALB	S	14	1:40.441	+1.226	±0.810	+0.187s
HUL	S	9	1:40.498	+1.283	±0.532	+0.152s
VET	S	12	1:40.570	+1.355	±1.104	+0.280s
PER	H	16	1:40.857	+1.642	±0.938	+0.179s
SAI	S	15	1:40.920	+1.705	±0.611	+0.132s
NOR	S	14	1:40.982	+1.767	±0.621	+0.138s
RAI	S	12	1:41.054	+1.839	±0.599	+0.129s
STR	H	13	1:41.151	+1.936	±0.980	+0.177s
GRO	S	9	1:41.190	+1.975	±0.635	+0.219s
MAG	S	8	1:41.398	+2.183	±0.594	+0.168s
RUS	M	17	1:41.529	+2.314	±0.491	+0.051s
GIO	S	9	1:41.581	+2.366	±0.690	+0.208s
KUB	H	13	1:42.456	+3.241	±0.917	+0.125s

Sectors and the lap they could have done

Driver	S1	S2	S3	Ideal lap	Best lap	Left out
BOT	24.678	27.506	41.146	1:33.330	1:33.330	0.000
VET	24.534	27.682	41.141	1:33.357	1:33.357	0.000
VER	24.478	27.622	41.451	1:33.551	1:33.551	0.000
LEC	24.556	27.704	41.618	1:33.878	1:34.158	0.280
HAM	24.629	28.035	41.306	1:33.970	1:34.037	0.067
HUL	24.550	27.910	41.636	1:34.096	1:34.096	0.000
SAI	24.832	27.810	41.499	1:34.141	1:34.141	0.000
NOR	24.770	27.864	41.662	1:34.296	1:34.296	0.000
RIC	24.715	28.021	41.600	1:34.336	1:34.336	0.000
GAS	24.678	27.876	41.893	1:34.447	1:34.455	0.008
ALB	24.832	28.210	41.481	1:34.523	1:34.634	0.111
RAI	24.985	28.183	41.379	1:34.547	1:34.551	0.004
KVY	24.702	28.003	41.862	1:34.567	1:34.694	0.127
STR	24.884	28.010	41.885	1:34.779	1:34.779	0.000
PER	24.878	28.254	41.652	1:34.784	1:34.784	0.000
MAG	25.002	28.212	41.574	1:34.788	1:34.788	0.000
GRO	25.147	28.434	42.123	1:35.704	1:35.704	0.000
GIO	25.308	28.542	42.064	1:35.914	1:35.914	0.000
KUB	25.238	28.638	42.245	1:36.121	1:36.121	0.000
RUS	25.386	28.691	42.152	1:36.229	1:36.229	0.000

What the tyres are worth here

SSoft — referenceM+0.977(8 drivers ran both)H+1.467(9 drivers ran both)

Team-mates, head to head

MercedesBOTahead of HAM+0.707

FerrariVETahead of LEC+0.801

Red Bull RacingVERahead of ALB+1.083

RenaultHULahead of RIC+0.240

McLarenSAIahead of NOR+0.155

Toro RossoGASahead of KVY+0.239

Alfa Romeo RacingRAIahead of GIO+1.363

Racing PointSTRahead of PER+0.005

Haas F1 TeamMAGahead of GRO+0.916

WilliamsKUBahead of RUS+0.108

Same car, so the gap on their best lap is the clearest read on the driver available.

Stints and compounds

BOT71311114

VET7311156

VER531110

HAM631139

HUL731110

SAI731178

LEC751

NOR55411643

RIC831812

GAS751010

RAI65157

ALB5511610

KVY1514

STR73918

PER53918

MAG95119

GRO731210

GIO111511210

KUB7515191

RUS551519

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Practice 3

Sat 13 Apr, 03:00 UTCFastestBOT1:32.830

Single-lap pace

BOT1:32.830—11 laps

VET1:33.222+0.39212 laps

LEC1:33.248+0.41810 laps

HAM1:33.689+0.85910 laps

HUL1:33.974+1.14411 laps

RAI1:34.246+1.41614 laps

VER1:34.447+1.6175 laps

SAI1:34.510+1.6809 laps

ALB1:34.600+1.77011 laps

KVY1:34.783+1.95310 laps

NOR1:34.938+2.10811 laps

PER1:35.078+2.2489 laps

RIC1:35.142+2.31211 laps

STR1:35.223+2.39310 laps

GAS1:35.326+2.4968 laps

GIO1:35.726+2.89612 laps

GRO1:35.771+2.94114 laps

MAG1:35.998+3.16815 laps

RUS1:36.124+3.29410 laps

KUB1:36.176+3.34611 laps

Best lap regardless of fuel load or compound — a sighting shot, not a form guide.

Long runs, fuel-corrected

Driver	Tyre	Laps	Fuel-corrected	Gap	Spread	Deg / lap
MAG	M	6*	1:37.751	—	±1.113	—
GRO	M	6*	1:37.947	+0.196	±1.593	—

Sectors and the lap they could have done

Driver	S1	S2	S3	Ideal lap	Best lap	Left out
BOT	24.334	27.550	40.946	1:32.830	1:32.830	0.000
VET	24.033	27.779	41.369	1:33.181	1:33.761	0.580
LEC	24.354	27.592	41.302	1:33.248	1:33.248	0.000
HAM	24.458	27.779	41.452	1:33.689	1:33.689	0.000
HUL	24.552	27.877	41.545	1:33.974	1:33.974	0.000
RAI	24.541	28.119	41.586	1:34.246	1:34.246	0.000
VER	24.636	27.918	41.893	1:34.447	1:34.447	0.000
SAI	24.593	27.984	41.933	1:34.510	1:34.510	0.000
ALB	24.879	27.951	41.770	1:34.600	1:34.600	0.000
KVY	24.835	28.131	41.750	1:34.716	1:34.783	0.067
NOR	24.830	28.104	41.793	1:34.727	1:34.938	0.211
PER	24.964	28.076	42.038	1:35.078	1:35.078	0.000
RIC	24.844	28.219	42.079	1:35.142	1:35.142	0.000
STR	24.967	28.087	42.169	1:35.223	1:35.223	0.000
GAS	24.764	28.348	42.214	1:35.326	1:35.326	0.000
GIO	25.029	28.273	42.424	1:35.726	1:35.726	0.000
GRO	25.137	28.214	42.382	1:35.733	1:35.771	0.038
MAG	25.461	28.322	42.117	1:35.900	1:35.998	0.098
RUS	25.218	28.546	42.360	1:36.124	1:36.124	0.000
KUB	25.238	28.449	42.489	1:36.176	1:36.176	0.000

What the tyres are worth here

SSoft — referenceM+1.067(4 drivers ran both)

Team-mates, head to head

MercedesBOTahead of HAM+0.859

FerrariVETahead of LEC+0.026

RenaultHULahead of RIC+1.168

Alfa Romeo RacingRAIahead of GIO+1.480

Red Bull RacingVERahead of ALB+0.153

McLarenSAIahead of NOR+0.428

Toro RossoKVYahead of GAS+0.543

Racing PointPERahead of STR+0.145

Haas F1 TeamGROahead of MAG+0.227

WilliamsRUSahead of KUB+0.052

Same car, so the gap on their best lap is the clearest read on the driver available.

Stints and compounds

BOT53

VET5115

LEC514

HAM34

HUL1613

RAI17213

VER41

SAI153

ALB151112

KVY133111

NOR1433

PER81

RIC5312

STR811

GAS71

GIO1511112

GRO1112

MAG1113

RUS451

KUB5411

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