Lando’s ‘surprising’ podium, Zhou’s emotional homecoming + Max’s first win in Shanghai – 2024 Chinese GP Review

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🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Was Max Verstappen’s victory at the Chinese Grand Prix his most dominant of 2024? How did Lando Norris beat the Red Bull of Sergio Perez and both Ferraris to claim P2? What did Zhou Guanyu make of his historic first home race?

From the Shanghai paddock, Tom Clarkson is joined by F1 tech expert Albert Fàbrega and Mercedes reserve driver, Fred Vesti, to discuss all the big talking points from Formula 1’s first race in China since 2019.

Plus, Carlos Sainz’s manager, Carlos Oñoro, gives us the latest on how the Spaniard’s search for a seat in 2025 is going and Chinese journalist Frankie Mao tells us what it meant to have F1 back in the country.

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0:00.0	In China, Lando landed another podium.
0:05.7	Checo charged back to the top three.
0:07.8	Alonzo was awesome, Hamilton was unhappy and Vastappan's victory was one of his best ever.
0:15.0	He's going to win the Chinese Grand Prix for the first time in his career.
0:18.0	Max Vestappan crosses the line to take victory in Shanghai. He's 50. Cross his
0:24.4	58th formula one win and he has destroyed the field once more.
0:30.8	The Dutchman leads home home Lando Norris.
0:34.8	Lando Norris with his best result of the season
0:37.6	and his fifth deep career podium.
0:40.4	Two Red Bulls on the podium thanks to Sergio Perez who comes home for another trip to the
0:48.0	Rostrum.
0:50.0	Tom Clarkson here in the Shanghai Paddock, it's F1 Nation's review of the Chinese Grand Prix,
0:55.6	and with me our Mercedes reserve driver, Fred Vesti, and F1 tech expert Albert Fagbraga.
1:01.6	Guys, it's great to have you with us.
1:03.4	Can we get your reactions, first of all?
1:05.8	Yeah, I must say, of course, a strong result from Max,
1:08.4	but a really impressive race coming from Lando.
1:11.1	He was really fast, and I was quite surprised he was able to keep such a gap to Sergio and I really think his last stint was strong so that was really impressive.
1:20.4	It was a cool race of course there was a bit of crashing going on at the safety car restart,
1:25.0	which as a driver and Formula One in general you don't really want to see, but in a happen like that, it can happen.
1:31.0	And yeah, that was a bit crazy but yeah it's
1:35.2	been the whole weekend has been amazing I think we have seen a lot of action
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