Set your alarms for the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix: Here's the schedule!

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.

Sprint qualifying results

Despite topping the session with a half a second gap to the nearest rival, Lando Norris and McLaren squandered what everyone thought for sure would be a pole for the British team and driver combination. In the end Norris' efforts for good enough for a dissapointing P6, whilst his teammate, Oscar Piastri, although quicker, wasn't fast enough for the front row, achieving a P3 at the flag.

Lewis Hamilton shocked pundits and fans alike, as well as himself, as his lap of 1:30.849 got him P1 on the timesheets, as well as the track record for the Shanghai International Circuit. His Red Bull Racing rival, Max Verstappen, is set to start nex to him tomorrow in the sprint race, after clocking in a lap good enough for P2 ahead of Piastri, Charles Leclerc, George Russell, Norris, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Yuki Tsunoda, Alexander Albon and Lance Stroll, who rounded off the top 10.

2025 Chinese Grand Prix schedule

Sprint: 03:00 UK time

Qualifying: 07:00 UK time

Race: 07:00 UK time

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