2019 China Grand Prix

 2019 China Grand Prix

Racing data
3rd of 21 races in the 2019 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	Formula 1 Heineken Chinese Grand Prix 2019
Date:	April 14, 2019
Place:	Shanghai
Course:	Shanghai International Circuit
Length:	305.066 km in 56 laps of 5.451 km
Pole position
Driver:	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes
Time:	1: 31.547 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Pierre Gasly	Red Bull Racing Honda
Time:	1: 34.742 min (lap 55)
Podium
First:	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Second:	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes
Third:	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari

The Chinese Grand Prix 2019 (official Formula 1 Heineken Chinese Grand Prix in 2019 ) took place on 14 April at the Shanghai International Circuit in Shanghai instead and was the third race of the Formula 1 World Championship in 2019 . It was also the 1000th race in the history of the Formula 1 and automobile world championships.

report

backgrounds

After the Bahrain Grand Prix , Valtteri Bottas led the drivers' championship with one point ahead of Lewis Hamilton and 17 points ahead of Max Verstappen . In the constructors' championship, Mercedes led Ferrari with 39 points and Red Bull Racing with 56 points .

At the Chinese Grand Prix, Pirelli provided the drivers with the tire compounds P Zero Hard (white, compound C2 ), P Zero Medium (yellow, C3 ) and P Zero Soft (red, C4 ), as well as Cinturato Intermediates (green) and Cinturato Full for wet conditions -Wets (blue) available.

The DRS zones remained unchanged compared to the previous year, the measuring point for the first zone was 35 meters before turn 16 , the zone itself was on the start-finish straight and began 98 meters after the last curve. The measuring point for the second DRS zone was in turn twelve , the DRS was then allowed to be activated 752 meters before turn 14 .

Romain Grosjean (eight), Lance Stroll , Verstappen (seven each), Sergio Pérez , Sebastian Vettel (five each), Bottas, Pierre Gasly (four each), Nico Hülkenberg , Carlos Sainz jr. (three each), Kevin Magnussen and Kimi Räikkönen (two each) went into the race weekend with penalty points.

With Hamilton (five times), Raikkonen, Daniel Ricciardo and Vettel (once each), four former winners competed in this Grand Prix.

free training

In the first free practice Vettel was fastest with a lap time of 1: 33.911 minutes ahead of Hamilton and Charles Leclerc .

In the second free practice, Bottas set the fastest time in 1: 33.330 minutes ahead of Vettel and Verstappen.

In the third free practice session, Bottas was again fastest, this time with a lap time of 1: 32.830 minutes. Vettel was second in front of Leclerc. The training was terminated prematurely due to an accident involving Alexander Albon .

Qualifying

The qualifying consisted of three parts with a net running time of 45 minutes. In the first qualifying segment (Q1), the drivers had 18 minutes to qualify for the race. All drivers who achieved a time in the first section that was a maximum of 107 percent of the fastest lap time qualified for the Grand Prix. The best 15 drivers reached the next part. Albon could not take part in free practice after his accident, Antonio Giovinazzi was also unable to drive a timed lap due to a technical defect. Both did not qualify for the Grand Prix, but were allowed to start because they had been sufficiently fast in free practice. Bottas was the fastest. In addition to Albon and Giovinazzi, the Williams drivers and Stroll were eliminated.

The second section (Q2) lasted 15 minutes. The ten fastest pilots qualified for the third part of qualifying. Both Mercedes and Ferrari drivers as well as Verstappen achieved their fastest lap times on the medium compound, all the others on soft . Hamilton was fastest. The McLaren drivers, Raikkonen, Pérez and Daniil Kwjat were eliminated.

The final section (Q3) lasted twelve minutes, during which the first ten starting positions were awarded. With a lap time of 1: 31.547 minutes, Bottas set the best time ahead of Hamilton and Vettel. It was the seventh pole position for Bottas in the Formula 1 World Championship.

run

Verstappen and Robert Kubica spun on the warm-up lap when they were inattentive to warm up the tires. However, both drove on and started the race from their starting positions.

At the start, Hamilton took the lead from Bottas, Leclerc overtook Vettel. Pérez started well and overtook Kwjat, both Haas drivers and Hülkenberg on the first lap. Shortly afterwards, Kwjat Sainz and then Lando Norris touched midfield , both McLaren were damaged in the process, fell back to the end of the field and pitted for repairs at the end of the lap. The race management called out the virtual safety car to salvage the debris lying on the track . Hamilton led before Bottas, Leclerc, Vettel, Verstappen, Gasly, Ricciardo, Pérez, Hülkenberg and Grosjean.

Kvyat received a drive-through penalty for causing the collision with Sainz and Norris, which he faced at the end of the seventh lap. He also got two penalty points. At the direction of the command post, Leclerc let Vettel pass on lap eleven. From the tenth lap onwards, the drivers who started on the soft compound had problems with the performance of their tires. Raikkonen, who started on Medium , overtook both Haas drivers and Hulkenberg. All three drivers drove into the pits and switched to Hard , Hulkenberg fell behind Grosjean, who had stopped one lap earlier.

Vettel was unable to break away from Leclerc, he braked several times and after 13 laps was already more than ten seconds behind Hamilton. On lap 16, Hülkenberg parked his vehicle in the pits. On lap 17, Verstappen switched to Hard , he came back on the track in eighth place immediately before Raikkonen. He passed Pérez on the same lap. Vettel switched to Hard one lap later , staying just ahead of Verstappen. Verstappen attacked Vettel, but braked himself, so that Vettel passed again. Pérez switched to Hard on lap 20 .

On lap 21 Bottas pitted and switched to Hard . He only lost one position to Leclerc. A lap later, Hamilton and Leclerc switched to Hard . Hamilton stayed in the lead, Leclerc fell behind Vettel and Verstappen. Gasly overtook Raikkonen, who had not yet been to the pits to change tires, and was now in sixth place.

On the fresh laps, Bottas drove the fastest lap of the race to date and reduced the gap to Hamilton, which had already been more than five seconds, to less than 1.5 seconds. However, when Hamilton's tires were up to temperature after two laps, he pulled away from Bottas again.

Raikkonen switched to Hard on lap 25 , he fell behind Magnussen and was now eleventh. However, he immediately overtook Magnussen and moved up to tenth place. In the following laps he caught up with Grosjean and overtook him on lap 29.

Leclerc reduced the gap to Verstappen with several fast laps, he sometimes caught up a second per lap. Verstappen changed tires again on lap 34, this time to medium . Vettel pitted a lap later and switched to medium , staying well ahead of Verstappen. Hamilton and Bottas also switched to medium again on lap 36 . Hamilton stayed just ahead of Leclerc, Bottas came back four seconds behind the Ferrari driver.

Vettel drove the fastest lap of the race to date, catching up three seconds on Leclerc within one lap. Bottas had caught up with Leclerc and attacked him, but Leclerc initially defended himself. One lap later, Bottas then passed. Vettel also caught up with Leclerc and passed, Leclerc then switched to medium on lap 42 . Kvyat gave up the race on the same lap. Norris also parked his car in the pits a few laps before the end.

Gasly changed tires again on the 53rd lap; he wanted to achieve the fastest race lap with fresh medium tires. He didn't lose any position after the pit stop. On the last lap, Gasly managed to set the fastest race lap in 1: 34.732 minutes.

Hamilton won the race ahead of Bottas and Vettel. It was Hamilton's 75th victory in the Formula 1 World Championship. Mercedes scored their third one-two result in the third race of the season, scoring 130 out of a possible 132 points. The remaining points were placed by Verstappen, Leclerc, Gasly, Ricciardo, Pérez, Raikkonen and Albon. Since Gasly drove the fastest lap and finished in the top ten, he received an additional point.

In the drivers' championship, Hamilton took the lead from Bottas, while Verstappen remained third. The first three positions in the constructors' championship remained unchanged.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes-AMG F1 W10 EQ Power +	Mercedes-AMG F1 M10 EQ Power +	P
	77	Valtteri Bottas
Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow	05	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari SF90	Ferrari 064	P
	16	Charles Leclerc
Aston Martin Red Bull Racing	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing RB15	Honda RA619H	P
	10	Pierre Gasly
Renault F1 Team	03	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault RS19	Renault E-Tech 19th	P
	27	Nico Hulkenberg
Rich Energy Haas F1 Team	08th	Romain Grosjean	Haas VF-19	Ferrari 064	P
	20th	Kevin Magnussen
McLaren F1 Team	55	Carlos Sainz Jr.	McLaren MCL34	Renault E-Tech 19th	P
	04th	Lando Norris
SportPesa Racing Point F1 Team	11	Sergio Perez	Racing Point RP19	BWT Mercedes	P
	18th	Lance Stroll
Alfa Romeo Racing	07th	Kimi Raikkonen	Alfa Romeo Racing C38	Ferrari 064	P
	99	Antonio Giovinazzi
Red Bull Toro Rosso Honda	26th	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso STR14	Honda RA619H	P
	23	Alexander Albon
ROKiT Williams Racing	63	George Russell	Williams FW42	Mercedes-AMG F1 M10 EQ Power +	P
	88	Robert Kubica

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	Q1	Q2	Q3	begin
01	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1: 32.658	1: 31.728	1: 31.547	01
02	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1: 33.115	1: 31.637	1: 31.570	02
03	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1: 33.557	1: 32.232	1: 31.848	03
04th	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1: 32.712	1: 32.324	1: 31.865	04th
05	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing Honda	1: 33.274	1: 32.369	1: 32.089	05
06th	Pierre Gasly	Red Bull Racing Honda	1: 33.863	1: 32.948	1: 32.930	06th
07th	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	1: 33.709	1: 33.214	1: 32.958	07th
08th	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	1: 33.644	1: 32.968	1: 32.962	08th
09	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	1: 34.036	1: 33.150	no time	09
10	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	1: 33.752	1: 33.156	no time	10
11	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	1: 33.783	1: 33.236	-	11
12	Sergio Perez	Racing Point-BWT Mercedes	1: 34.026	1: 33.299	-	12
13	Kimi Raikkonen	Alfa Romeo Racing Ferrari	1: 34.125	1: 33.419	-	13
14th	Carlos Sainz Jr.	McLaren-Renault	1: 33.686	1: 33.523	-	14th
15th	Lando Norris	McLaren-Renault	1: 34.148	1: 33.967	-	15th
16	Lance Stroll	Racing Point-BWT Mercedes	1: 34.292	-	-	16
17th	George Russell	Williams-Mercedes	1: 35.253	-	-	17th
18th	Robert Kubica	Williams-Mercedes	1: 35.281	-	-	18th
107 percent time : 1: 39.144 min (based on Q1 best time of 1: 32.658 min)
19th	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo Racing Ferrari	no time	-	-	19th
20th	Alexander Albon	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	no time	-	-	box

Remarks

1. ↑ Although he did not qualify, Giovinazzi was allowed to start because he was fast enough in free practice.
2. ↑ Although he did not qualify, Albon was allowed to start because he was fast enough in free practice.
3. ↑ Albon was moved five starting positions back due to a premature gear change.

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	56	2	1: 32: 06,350	02	1: 35,592 (47th)
02	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	56	2	+ 6.552	01	1: 34.872 (38th)
03	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	56	2	+ 13.744	03	1: 34.836 (37th)
04th	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing Honda	56	2	+ 27.627	05	1: 36,143 (45th)
05	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	56	2	+ 31.276	04th	1: 34.860 (45th)
06th	Pierre Gasly	Red Bull Racing Honda	56	3	+1: 29.307	06th	1: 34.742 (55th)
07th	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	55	1	+ 1 lap	07th	1: 38.632 (38th)
08th	Sergio Perez	Racing Point-BWT Mercedes	55	1	+ 1 lap	12	1: 38.702 (37th)
09	Kimi Raikkonen	Alfa Romeo Racing Ferrari	55	1	+ 1 lap	13	1: 37.812 (27.)
10	Alexander Albon	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	55	1	+ 1 lap	box	1: 38.901 (22.)
11	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	55	2	+ 1 lap	10	1: 36.873 (37.)
12	Lance Stroll	Racing Point-BWT Mercedes	55	2	+ 1 lap	16	1: 36.678 (46.)
13	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	55	2	+ 1 lap	09	1: 37.471 (35th)
14th	Carlos Sainz Jr.	McLaren-Renault	55	2	+ 1 lap	14th	1: 37.502 (44th)
15th	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo Racing Ferrari	55	2	+ 1 lap	19th	1: 38.048 (32nd)
16	George Russell	Williams-Mercedes	54	2	+ 2 rounds	17th	1: 37.283 (51.)
17th	Robert Kubica	Williams-Mercedes	54	1	+ 2 rounds	18th	1: 39.772 (28th)
18th	Lando Norris	McLaren-Renault	50	3	DNF	15th	1: 38,346 (37.)
-	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	42	4th	DNF	11	1: 37.978 (27.)
-	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	16	2	DNF	08th	1: 39.677 (14th)

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. In addition, there was a point for the fastest race lap, as the driver ended up in the top ten.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 68 02  Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 62 03  Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing Honda 39 04th  Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 37 05  Charles Leclerc Ferrari 36 06th  Pierre Gasly Red Bull Racing Honda 13 07th  Kimi Raikkonen Alfa Romeo Racing Ferrari 12 08th  Lando Norris McLaren-Renault 8th 09  Kevin Magnussen Haas-Ferrari 8th 10  Nico Hulkenberg Renault 6th

Item driver constructor Points 11  Daniel Ricciardo Renault 6th 12  Sergio Perez Racing Point-BWT Mercedes 5 13  Alexander Albon Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda 3 14th  Lance Stroll Racing Point-BWT Mercedes 2 15th  Daniil Kvyat Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda 1 16  Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo Racing Ferrari 0 17th  Romain Grosjean Haas-Ferrari 0 18th  Carlos Sainz Jr. McLaren-Renault 0 19th  George Russell Williams-Mercedes 0 20th  Robert Kubica Williams-Mercedes 0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 1  Mercedes 130 2  Ferrari 73 3  Red Bull Racing Honda 52 4th  Renault 12 5  Alfa Romeo Racing Ferrari 12

Item constructor Points 06th  Haas-Ferrari 8th 07th  McLaren-Renault 8th 08th  Racing Point-BWT Mercedes 7th 09  Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda 4th 10  Williams-Mercedes 0

Web links

Commons : China Grand Prix 2019  - Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files Collection

Individual evidence

1. ↑ What tires have the teams and drivers picked for China? Formula1.com, April 8, 2019, accessed April 10, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Chinese Grand Prix 2019 in Shanghai - Result 1. Free practice. Motorsport-Total.com, April 12, 2019, accessed April 12, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Chinese Grand Prix 2019 in Shanghai - result of 2nd free practice. Motorsport-Total.com, April 12, 2019, accessed April 12, 2019 . 
4. ^ Formula 1 training in China: early end due to Albon crash. Motorsport-Total.com, April 13, 2019, accessed April 13, 2019 .