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F1 2025 Chinese GP Sunday : Leclerc, Gasly, Hamilton DQ'ed, Piastri Dominates

Autosport F1 & Motorsport

Motorsport Network

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4723 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Alex Kalinauckas and Ronald Vording wrap up their coverage of the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix, from the Shanghai International Circuit, as McLaren dominated proceedings with their 50th 1-2 finish, with Oscar Piastri winning ahead of Lando Norris and George Russell. Alex gives a review of the action, why he agreed with Oscar calling it his "most complete" weekend in F1 and how the race converted into a one-stoppr. Also discussed is the link between the strategy change in the race and both Charles Leclerc and Pierre Gasly being disqualified for their cars being underweight, and Lewis Hamilton's disqulaiifcation for an over-worn skid block. There's also a big explanier from Ronald on Liam Lawson's future with Red Bull after another poor showing, and whether the sport as a whole could switch to V10's in 2028, and what it could mean for the next regulation change next year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.6

Welcome back to China. The 2025 Chinese Grand Prix is over.

0:34.6

The paddock is being rather noisily packed up behind us, but we are here one last time, Ronald, to chat about what went down.

0:42.1

A victory for McLaren's Oscar Piastri, his first of the season, obviously just the second race.

0:45.8

McLaren's 50th one-two in F'll come to. Lando Norris reckoning he might have had a chance of winning the race, were it not for the fact he suffered a big

0:59.0

great problem late on, he sort of played it down, but what Andrea Stella was not saying, I thought it was particularly interesting.

1:05.0

Then there was the fact that at Ferrari, there were team orders between Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leicler, but ultimately both of those cars disqualify for technical issues post-race.

1:14.6

And then at Red Bull, terrible pace from Max Mustafa, he's fourth on the road, but it's what's happening to the other car and the future of Liam Lawson, even at this very early stage of the 2025 season, under big pressure.

1:26.6

We'll come to that as well. And finally, you got an excellent story first thing in the morning about the potential rapid

1:31.3

return of V10 engines to Formula One.

1:33.3

But yeah, let's start with McLaren's 1-2.

1:35.3

What did you make of Oscar Piastri and Landon or us today?

1:38.3

I think it's what we expected coming from Melbourne,

1:41.3

but maybe not what we expected when we saw how it unfolded here with

1:44.7

Ferrari being so dominant in the sprint. So basically stuff got back to normal again. I think it's

1:51.2

good for Piastro to bounce back after the bad luck he had or the mistake he made in Melbourne.

1:56.4

I have to say the rest of it I leave to you because my day, as you said, was completely dominated by two topics.

2:02.6

Red Bull drivers and V-10s potentially coming back. We'll talk about that in a second.

2:07.6

Absolutely. Well, very handily for that split, I was concentrating on the McLaren result, the race result.

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