The program for the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix

Just one week after the 2025 campaign kicked off in Melbourne, the F1 is heading to Shanghai for the Chinese GP, the second round of the championship and the first Asian event of the year. The Middle Kingdom is hosting the discipline for the 18th time in its history, and for the second year in a row, there will be not one, but two races on the program! The first of the season's six Sprint races will take place this weekend in Shanghai.

Absent from the calendar for five years, following the Covid-19 pandemic and the heavy restrictions imposed in the country, the Chinese GP returned to Formula 1 in 2024, twenty years after the first edition. The 5,451-kilometer circuit, inaugurated in 2004, has many unique features, such as the sequence of the first three "snail-like" turns, representing the 'shang' symbol, the long 1,2-kilometer straight, and the banking acceleration in turns 12 and 13.

This year, there will once again be two DRS zones, the first on the start-finish straight, and the second on the long back straight. In F1, the Emperor of China is Lewis Hamilton : the Briton won six times in Shanghai, having won the 1000th Grand Prix in the history of the discipline. On the grid, only two other drivers have triumphed in China: Fernando Alonso (2005 and 2013) and Max Verstappen (2024). The race lap record was set by Michael Schumacher in 2004, with a time of 1'32″238.

F1 – 2025 Chinese GP
TV program and broadcast

Friday 21 March
4h30 – Free Practice 1 (Canal+ Sport)
8h30 – Sprint Qualifications (Canal+ Sport)
Saturday March, 22
4h00 – Sprint race (Canal+ Sport)
8h00 – Qualifications (Canal+ Sport / Live Texte AUTOhebdo)
Sunday 23 March
8h00 – Grand Prix (Canal+ / Live Texte AUTOhebdo)

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