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Set your alarms for early 2025 Chinese Grand Prix: Here's the schedule!
The 2025 Chinese Grand Prix will be the first sprint event of the season, as such it will have only one practice session. Find out the times for when all the on-track action will take place around the Shanghai International Circuit here!
It'll be an early weekend for European Formula One fans. With Chinese times being 8 hours ahead of the UK's, the morning sessions at the Shanghai race track, will be broadcast when it's still dark out in Europe, with FP1 and the Sprint race starting at 03:30 and 03:00 hours respectively.
However, for Friday's Sprint Qualifying, Saturday's Qualifying and the Chinese Grand Prix itself, the alarms may be set to go off a bit later on in the day, with the first relevant session of the weekend, the Sprint qualifying is scheduled for 07:30 of the Friday. Qualifying ahead of the Grand Prix, is set to take place on Saturday, as per usual, and it will start at 07:00 UK time. For the race on Sunday, cars will start the formation lap at 07:00 hours on the dot.
2025 Chinese Grand Prix schedule
FP1: 03:30 UK time
Sprint Qualifying: 07:30 UK time
Sprint: 03:00 UK time
Qualifying: 07:00 UK time
Race: 07:00 UK time
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