Strategy corner – What to look out for in F1’s 2025 Chinese GP

Following a rainy Australian Grand Prix, a bone-dry race at Shanghai was supposed to be much more straightforward. But Saturday morning’s sprint has shown that the tyres will make mastering China anything but simple.
Going against the grain
A key word that has popped up all weekend is ‘graining’, a phenomenon in which the tyre surface becomes hotter than the underlying carcass, usually by …Keep reading