2010 Chinese Grand Prix
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4th of 19 races in the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship | ||
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Surname: | VII Chinese Grand Prix | |
Date: | April 18, 2010 | |
Place: | Shanghai | |
Course: | Shanghai International Circuit | |
Length: | 305.066 km in 56 laps of 5.451 km
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Weather: | rain | |
Spectator: | ~ 121,500 | |
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Time: | 1: 34.558 min | |
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Time: | 1: 42.061 min (lap 13) | |
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The 2010 Chinese Grand Prix took place on April 18 at the Shanghai International Circuit in Shanghai and was the fourth race of the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship .
Reports
background
After the Malaysian Grand Prix , Felipe Massa led the drivers' standings with two points ahead of Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel . Ferrari led the constructors' championship with ten points ahead of McLaren-Mercedes and with 15 points ahead of Red Bull-Renault .
With Rubens Barrichello , Alonso, Michael Schumacher , Lewis Hamilton and Vettel (once each), five former winners competed in this Grand Prix.
training
In the first free practice, Jenson Button was the fastest driver ahead of Nico Rosberg and his teammate Hamilton. During the training session, Sébastien Buemis had a curious accident in which both front wheel suspensions broke off when braking for the hairpin. Without steering, Buemi initially drove uncontrollably against the lane boundary and finally came to a standstill in the gravel bed, where he left the car unharmed. In the second free practice, Hamilton was again a McLaren driver in the lead. Rosberg and Button followed in second and third place. In the third free practice session on Saturday morning, Mark Webber posted the fastest lap ahead of Hamilton and Vettel.
Qualifying
In the first section of qualifying, Hamilton posted the fastest lap. The HRT , Virgin and Lotus pilots as well as Liuzzi were eliminated. In the second segment, Hamilton maintained the top position. The Sauber , Williams and Toro Rosso pilots, as well as Petrow, were eliminated. In the end, last year's winner Vettel secured pole position in the third section in front of his team-mates Webber and Alonso.
run
Rain showers had been announced in advance for the Chinese Grand Prix. However, it only rained lightly at the start and with the exception of Timo Glock , who chose intermediates , all the drivers started on slicks . Since Glock stopped at the start of the introductory lap, no one was told how promising his strategy would have been. Since his Virgin lost pressure in the valve drive system due to an air leak, he could not continue the race later.
Alonso had the best start at the front of the field and took the lead from third place. Vettel, who started the race from pole position, also lost another place and fell back to third place. Webber stayed in second place. The safety car had to go out on the track after the first lap. Liuzzi spun and collided with Buemi and Kamui Kobayashi . The race was over for all three drivers immediately. In the safety car phase, the drivers decided on different strategies. While most of the pilots switched to intermediate tires, Rosberg, Button, Robert Kubica , Petrow, Pedro de la Rosa and Heikki Kovalainen kept dry tires .
After the restart, Rosberg was able to maintain the lead. While the Mercedes driver achieved the fastest lap on slicks, Alonso was given a drive-through penalty because his good start was due to an early start. Before he could cancel the penalty, however, he came back to the pits to change tires and switched back from intermediates to slicks. Over the next few laps, all drivers switched back to slicks. The big profiteers were therefore the pilots who had not changed.
After seven laps, de la Rosa, who was fourth at the time, had to give up the race with a technical problem. Lucas di Grassi , who gave up the race after driving eight laps, caused another retirement. The clutch on his Virgin had to be changed before the race, but the newly installed clutch did not work properly either and forced him to give up. In the twelfth round there was a duel between Adrian Sutil , Vettel and Hamilton. The Briton managed to pass both pilots at once and take seventh place. After the overtaking maneuver, Hamilton was the driver with the fastest racing laps. While Vettel and Webber were able to pass Sutil, Hamilton caught up with Schumacher, who placed fifth. After he couldn't get past the German at first, the two dueled on the straight in front of the hairpin. Schumacher tried to defend the position, but had no chance and Hamilton improved to fifth place. One lap later, the Mercedes driver lost another position to Vettel.
In the 19th lap there was a change in leadership at the top. Button took over the leadership from Rosberg. After the overtaking maneuver, it started raining again and this time all drivers decided to switch to intermediate tires. Although the leading trio, which was completed by Kubica, retained their clear lead over the pursuers during the pit stop, there was a safety car phase because Alguersuari had lost parts of his front wing on the track. At the restart, Button kept the lead over Rosberg. In the middle part of the field, however, there were some position shifts. The most conspicuous was Hamilton, who first overtook Schumacher and one lap later Petrow and finally passed Kubica and drove up to third place.
While Jarno Trulli had to give up his race in the pits, there was a duel for second place between Rosberg and Hamilton. However, there was no overtaking maneuver on the track, as the drivers came back to the pits to change tires for fresh intermediates. Hamilton had the better strategy and took second place from Rosberg. Together with Button, who was the undisputed leader in the race, the McLaren were able to take the lead.
While the first two positions seemed distributed, Alguersuari, who was eighth, lost three positions within two laps and had to let Petrow, Massa and Sutil by. Further ahead, a duel for third place developed between Rosberg and Alonso, and a duel for fifth position between Kubica and Vettel. However, by the end of the race there should not be any more shifts in the first six positions. In midfield, Petrow continued to apply pressure and improved to seventh place with overtaking maneuvers against Schumacher and Webber. Schumacher also lost another place to his former team-mate Massa and took the last point in tenth.
Button won his second race of the season ahead of his teammates Hamilton and Rosberg. In addition, Button took the lead in the Drivers' World Championship from Massa, who dropped to sixth place. Rosberg took second place. There was also a change at the top among the designers and McLaren-Mercedes took over the top position from Ferrari.
There were a total of 67 pit stops during the race. The last time there was a similar number of pit stops was the legendary rain race in Donington Park , the 1993 European Grand Prix .
With Jenson Button another driver won for the seventh time in a row.
Registration list
- ↑ a b Di Resta drove the Force India with the number 14 in the first free practice. Sutil then took over the vehicle for the rest of the race weekend.
Classifications
Qualifying
Item | driver | constructor | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | begin |
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1 |
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1: 36.317 | 1: 35.280 | 1: 34.558 | 1 |
2 |
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1: 35.978 | 1: 35,100 | 1: 34.806 | 2 |
3 |
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1: 35.987 | 1: 35.235 | 1: 34.913 | 3 |
4th |
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1: 34.952 | 1: 35.134 | 1: 34.923 | 4th |
5 |
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1: 36.122 | 1: 35.443 | 1: 34.979 | 5 |
6th |
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1: 34.641 | 1: 34.928 | 1: 35.034 | 6th |
7th |
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1: 36.076 | 1: 35.290 | 1: 35.180 | 7th |
8th |
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1: 36.348 | 1: 35.550 | 1: 35.364 | 8th |
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1: 36.484 | 1: 35.715 | 1: 35.646 | 9 |
10 |
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1: 36.671 | 1: 35.665 | 1: 35.963 | 10 |
11 |
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1: 36.664 | 1: 35.748 | - | 11 |
12 |
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1: 36.618 | 1: 36.047 | - | 12 |
13 |
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1: 36.793 | 1: 36.149 | - | 13 |
14th |
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1: 37.031 | 1: 36.311 | - | 14th |
15th |
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1: 37.044 | 1: 36.422 | - | 15th |
16 |
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1: 37.049 | 1: 36.647 | - | 16 |
17th |
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1: 37.050 | 1: 37.020 | - | 17th |
18th |
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1: 37.161 | - | - | 18th |
19th |
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1: 39.278 | - | - | 19th |
20th |
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1: 39.399 | - | - | 20th |
21st |
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1: 39.520 | - | - | 21st |
22nd |
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1: 39.783 | - | - | 22nd |
23 |
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1: 40.469 | - | - | 23 |
24 |
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1: 40.578 | - | - | 24 |
run
Item | driver | constructor | Round | Stops | time | begin | Fastest lap |
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56 | 2 | 1: 46: 42,163 | 5 | 1: 42.886 (14th) |
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56 | 4th | + 1.530 | 6th | 1: 42.061 (13.) |
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56 | 2 | + 9.484 | 4th | 1: 43.245 (14th) |
4th |
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56 | 5 | + 11.869 | 3 | 1: 44.134 (14.) |
5 |
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56 | 2 | + 22.213 | 8th | 1: 43.630 (14th) |
6th |
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56 | 4th | + 33.310 | 1 | 1: 42.358 (14th) |
7th |
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56 | 2 | + 47,600 | 14th | 1: 43.801 (14.) |
8th |
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56 | 4th | + 52.172 | 2 | 1: 42.609 (14.) |
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56 | 4th | + 57.796 | 7th | 1: 44.594 (14th) |
10 |
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56 | 4th | +1: 01.749 | 9 | 1: 44.298 (14th) |
11 |
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56 | 4th | +1: 02.874 | 10 | 1: 44.364 (14th) |
12 |
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56 | 4th | +1: 03.665 | 11 | 1: 45.559 (17.) |
13 |
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56 | 6th | +1: 11.416 | 12 | 1: 43.755 (14th) |
14th |
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55 | 2 | + 1 lap | 21st | 1: 47.141 (14th) |
15th |
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55 | 6th | + 1 lap | 16 | 1: 44,549 (13.) |
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54 | 4th | + 2 rounds | 23 | 1: 48.216 (16.) |
17th |
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52 | 4th | + 4 rounds | box | 1: 48.788 (15.) |
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26th | 4th | DNF | 20th | 1: 49.675 (14th) |
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8th | 0 | DNF | 22nd | 1: 53.185 ( | 7.)
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7th | 0 | DNF | 17th | 1: 47.739 ( | 6.)
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0 | 0 | DNF | 13 | - |
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0 | 0 | DNF | 15th | - |
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0 | 0 | DNF | 18th | - |
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- | - | DNS | 19th | - |
1 Timo Glock stopped at the start of the formation lap because his Virgin lost pressure in the valve drive system due to an air leak.
World Cup stands after the race
The first ten of the race got 25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.
Driver ranking
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Constructors' championship
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Individual evidence
- ^ "GP China in Shanghai / 1st free practice" (Motorsport-Total.com on April 16, 2010)
- ↑ "Bizarre accident overshadows the first training session" (Motorsport-Total.com on April 16, 2010)
- ^ "GP China in Shanghai / 2nd free practice" (Motorsport-Total.com on April 16, 2010)
- ^ "GP China in Shanghai / 3rd free practice" (Motorsport-Total.com on April 17, 2010)
- ↑ a b c "Both Virgin racers victims of technology" (Motorsport-Total.com on April 18, 2010)
- ↑ "Clean: bitter double-off in Shanghai" (Motorsport-Total.com on April 18, 2010)
Web links
- Weekend statistics at Motorsport-Total.com