Chinese Grand Prix archive
Chinese Grand Prix tickets not on sale yet
The 2010 Chinese Grand Prix is 100 days away but ticket sales have not yet begun for the event.
F1.com doesn’t have any tickets on sale for the race yet and there’s been nothing on the Shanghai International Circuit’s website, which now appears to have gone down.
It’s the earliest round of the championship which tickets aren’t [...]
At least the racing is (slightly) better
The political deadlock dominates the F1 headlines but on the hunch that many of you are as sick of it as I am I thought it would be a good time to write about something a bit more positive.
We’ve had many discussions about whether the new technical rules for 2010 would improve the quality of [...]
Massa’s strong drive and Heidfeld’s bad luck (Chinese Grand Prix analysis)
It might have been a bad day for Ferrari in Shanghai but Felipe Massa’s form gives them cause for optimism.
Find out why in the breakdown of the race statistics.
Chinese Grand Prix facts & stats
There have been 806 rounds of the F1 world championship – and yesterday Red Bull became only the 34th team to win a race.
All the stats from China below including a first for Lewis Hamilton, a career best for Mark Webber, and Nick Heidfeld on the verge of a new record.
Chinese Grand Prix pictures
Here’s a selection of dramatic pictures of the rain-lashed Chinese Grand Prix – including some excellent photographs of the victorious Red Bull team celebrating their maiden win.
Vettel leads Webber in Red Bull one-two (Chinese Grand Prix review)
Sebastian Vettel’s second Grand Prix win had a touch of deja vu about it – he started from pole position but the wet race got underway behind the safety car.
And at the end of it he had taken Red Bull to their maiden victory, just as he did for Toro Rosso at Monza last year. [...]
Sutil crash costs Force India first point
It was a repeat of last year’s Monaco Grand Prix for Adrian Sutil as he came within a few laps of scoring Force India’s first ever point.
But this time instead of being shunted out of the race by Kimi Raikkonen, Sutil was the cause of his own undoing – crashing out heavily at turn five. [...]
Ferrari’s nightmare season continues
Ferrari are having their worst start to an F1 season since 1981 as Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa failed to score for the third race in a row.
The defending constructors’ champions reacted to their non-scores in Australia and Malaysia by shifting Luca Baldisserri off the pitwall and promoting Chris Dyer in his place. They also [...]
Championship standings after China
Drivers’ championship
Jenson Button 21
Rubens Barrichello 15
Timo Glock 10
Sebastian Vettel 10
Mark Webber 9.5
Jarno Trulli 8.5
Fernando Alonso 4
Nick Heidfeld 4
Lewis Hamilton 4
Heikki Kovalainen 4
Nico Rosberg 3.5
Constructors’ championship
Brawn 36
Red Bull 19.5
Toyota 18.5
McLaren 8
BMW 4
Renault 4
Toro Rosso 4
Williams 3.5
Chinese Grand Prix results
1. Sebastian Vettel
2. Mark Webber
3. Jenson Button
4. Rubens Barrichello
5. Heikki Kovalainen
6. Lewis Hamilton
7. Timo Glock
8. Sebastien Buemi
9. Fernando Alonso
10. Kimi Raikkonen
11. Sebastien Bourdais
12. Nick Heidfeld
13. Robert Kubica
14. Giancarlo Fisichella
15. Nico Rosberg
16. Nelson Piquet Jnr
17. Adrian Sutil
Did not finish
Kazuki Nakajima
Felipe Massa
Jarno Trulli
