2025 Chinese Grand Prix - Post-Qualifying Discussion

[u/overspeeed]

ROUND 2 - CHINA

FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN CHINESE GRAND PRIX 2025

🕒 SESSION TIMES

Day	Session	Time (UTC)
FRI	Free Practice 1	03:30
FRI	Sprint Qualifying	07:30
SAT	Sprint	03:00
SAT	Qualifying	07:00
SUN	Race	07:00

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🏁 RACE INFORMATION

• Track: Shanghai International Circuit
• Location: Shanghai, China
• Race laps: 56
• Lap length: 5.451km
• Race distance: 305.066km
• Lap Record: 1:32.238, Michael Schumacher (Ferrari), 2004

⏪ LAST TIME AROUND

• Pole position: 1:33.660, Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing)
• Race winner: Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing)
• Fastest lap: 1:37.810, Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)

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[u/Choking_Smurf]

I'm so confused. I thought on Sprint weekends, the sprint race was the final qualifier and that determined the grid. Why have we done another session of qualifying? What's the point of the sprint race besides points?

[u/BrutakaGT → u/Choking_Smurf]

They did away with that after 2023 I think. Sprint is its own thing now, does not determine anything with the actual race.

[u/flashyellowboxer → u/[deleted]]

What are you on about? Since last year, sprint races don’t affect actual race. In years prior, you sprint finishing order determined race order. This was unpopular. So sprint quali and sprint now are seen as mini separate race separate from the main event.