Another win on Sunday would mean the Dutchman has won half of all F1 races held since the grand prix was last held in Shanghai, which will host the first sprint of the season.
World champion Max Verstappen hot favourite on circuit where he won by almost 20 seconds last year, but after his Melbourne miss, Ferrari are closing in.
Shanghai-born Zhou was five when he watched the first Chinese Grand Prix, and 20 years on, he hopes to finally make his first appearance there alongside childhood idol Fernando Alonso.
Carlos Sainz leads home Ferrari one-two, with teammate Charles Leclerc second, and Lando Norris third. Max Verstappen last just three pals before telling Red Bull engineers ‘I have smoke … fire, fire, brake, my brakes’.
Max Verstappen ‘very satisfied’ with third straight pole of the season, Carlos Sainz second for Ferrari. China’s Zhou Guanyu damages front wing during qualifying.
Zhou is one of 13 drivers on F1 grid who is out of contract at the end of the season, but Sauber are expected to seek another transition year in 2025 ahead of manufacturer joining in 2026.
World Champion has already won first two races of the year, and season is in danger of turning into one-team show again.
GM and the Andretti camp still seething over how dismissive F1 was of team’s ability to put a competitive car on the racetrack, say development continuing ‘at pace’.
Country’s only F1 driver says he wants to have strong season with plenty of his rivals on the market next year.
The seven-time F1 champion called the move ‘one of the hardest decisions I have ever had to make’.
Officials raise concern over team’s competitiveness and says it ‘would not on its own add value’ to the circuit.
Luxury sports car maker to team up with Italian ocean racing yachtsman Giovanni Soldini.
Filings show that desert kingdom’s Public Investment Fund has €50 million stake in Hong Kong’s SUV racing start-up Extreme E, and supports likes of Formula E, and boat E1 series.
Sainz takes title without winning any individual stages, and is the first to win with a car powered by an electric drive train, as Sebastien Loeb wins final stage but has to settle for third overall.
Motorsport marathon starts in Saudi Arabia on Friday, with 425 cars, bikes, quads and trucks racing the 4,900 miles to Yanbu.
Theodore Racing was started by city businessman Teddy Yip in 1973 and has launched some of the biggest names in motorsport during its time competing in the Macau Grand Prix.
Assassins in motorcycle helmets gunned down Andely Chan, known as the ‘Tiger of Wan Chai’, and two associates outside a Macau hotel in November 1993. Unusually, two women bystanders were injured.
Bright red roaster second most expensive car ever sold, second only to the €135 million paid for Mercedes 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe last year.
Sports minister Kevin Yeung says ‘technical aspects may have posed some challenges’, while FIA boss says ‘we want to talk about the length of the track’ but hopes the event will return.
With the Macau Grand Prix 2023 marking the race’s 70th edition, we look at the history of the event, its past champions like Michael Schumacher, and how it changed the way the world saw the city.
Both drivers praise Hong Kong’s efforts in hosting despite dramatic late changes to Central Harbourfront course after construction materials were delayed.