Yeah So He Just Retired 👍

QUALI RECAP: Chinese GP 2024

Ft. Nico Rosberg quotes because he's commentating again (scroll to the bottom bit)

Out in Q1

P20: Logan Sargeant, who spun out and caused a yellow flag

P19: Yuki Tsunoda, whose DRS wasn't working until the last 6 minutes of Q1

"I mean, there's definitely something going on, I can't be fucking 19. Honestly, the lap was pretty good." - Yuki Tsunoda, Team radio

P18: Lewis Hamilton goes too aggressively in his final lap and exits Q1 for the first time since Jeddah 2022

"When I was making the set-up changes I was like, it can't get any worse surely- and it did." - Lewis Hamilton

P17: Kevin Magnussen

P16: Zhou Guanyu, who placed an impressive P9 for the sprint, gets knocked down and out by Charles Leclerc, to the frustration of his home city

Out in Q2

P15: Pierre Gasly, who makes it into Q2 for the first time this year

P14: Alex Albon, who has exited Q2 in every race this season

P13: Esteban Ocon

P12: Daniel Ricciardo made it into Q2, out-qualifying Tsunoda for the first time this year. He had a minor setback when he reported smoke coming from his breaks in Q1, and wasn't able to advance to Q3

P11: Lance Stroll

Q3 results

P10: Valterri Bottas, who is on an absolute roll with his pace in China, qualifying P9 during the sprint

P9: Nico Hulkenberg, also managing to pull the HAAS to decent results

P8: George Russell

P7: Carlos Sainz, who crashed in Q2 (red flag) but came back on track in time to place third fastest, apparently struggling in Q3

P6: Charles Leclerc, who struggled a bit as well during Q3

P5: Oscar Piastri

P4: Lando Norris, who got pole for the sprint only to finish an unfortunate P6

P3: Fernando Alonso, oversteering a little in his final lap and just getting knocked down by Perez

P2: Checo Perez, making yet another front row lock-out for Red Bull

P1: Max Verstappen, taking Red Bull's 100th pole position, his first pole in China, and becoming the first driver to qualify P1 in all 5 starting races of the calender since Mika Hakkinen.

Bonus Nico Rosberg Commentary

"It's a super difficult one isn't it, for Mercedes. Lewis has put them into quite the difficult position there." (About what Mercedes will do after Lewis leaves)

"Lewis, you know, the 7 time world champion. That's a mistake probably that should be avoidable."

"Lewis tends to say we have so different set-ups and such a big car difference and that's kind of his excuse this year…and he's gone again for that"

"I'm happy to appear on a statistic. I don't appear much very often anymore 'cause it's so long ago." (The statistic being previous poles in Shanghai)

"I know that because he [Fernando Alonso]'s my rival in those statistics. That's why I know his numbers."

Red Bull will do anything but let Yuki get that RBR seat huh

At this point it's a full-blown safety issue.

Lance was sitting in his beached car in a place where anyone could have aquaplaned off into him for 40 seconds while they held off on a red flag so "more cars" could get their laps in

We have seen time and time again the worst racing accidents happen when someone is already stopped because of a crash, car integrity compromised, and someone plows into them or equipment around them

At what point does it become entertainment over lives?

heard the annual driver's dinner was good this year

Daniel had the chance to do the funniest thing (have an Enchante pop up store at Austin) and he did, good for him

LOGAN SARGEANT OVERTAKE ON THE WORD FREEDOM 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Sargeant just crashed out at his home race

about using wag promotion for f1 academy...i seriously have nothing against influencers or models and seriously good on them if they genuinely care about and support the series.

but i mean wouldn't it have made more sense to get lily muni he or tiffany cromwell to do the promo if they wanted wags...yk like the actual professional athletes. or why not consider women who are in motorsport but aren't given the recognition as interviewers or even the wags such as the mechanics who may get lost in the crowd or the pr team who constantly chase after the drivers in the background.

even if it isn't it just comes off disingenuous and reeks of paid promo. which usually wouldn't be a problem but its an odd direction f1 academy should be going for their image.

Maxiel through the years

Thanks to everyone who let me know he's still in the new grill the grid video :))