Sebastian Vettel set his ideal qualifying round for the second time in a week in the last qualifying moments and again beat his teammate Kimi Raikkonen, who had held the pole position – we give a look at how much each driver managed to extract from his own potential in the 2018 Chinese GP qualifying.
IDEAL QUALIFYING LAPS
Driver | Team | Time | Gap | Gain | ||
1 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 1:31.051 | 0.131 | |
2 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 1:31.095 | 0.044 | – |
3 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 1:31.530 | 0.479 | 0.095 |
4 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:31.568 | 0.517 | 0.107 |
5 | 33 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull/TAG Heuer | 1:31.731 | 0.680 | 0.065 |
6 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull/TAG Heuer | 1:31.896 | 0.845 | 0.052 |
7 | 27 | Nico Hülkenberg | Renault | 1:32.313 | 1.262 | 0.181 |
8 | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Haas/Ferrari | 1:32.524 | 1.473 | – |
9 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Force India/Mercedes | 1:32.758 | 1.707 | – |
10 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | Renault | 1:32.764 | 1.713 | 0.055 |
11 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas/Ferrari | 1:32.927 | 1.876 | 0.059 |
12 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Force India/Mercedes | 1:33.057 | 2.006 | – |
13 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | McLaren/Renault | 1:33.144 | 2.093 | 0.088 |
14 | 2 | S.Vandoorne | McLaren/Renault | 1:33.452 | 2.401 | 0.053 |
15 | 28 | Brendon Hartley | Toro Rosso/Honda | 1:33.672 | 2.621 | 0.123 |
16 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | Toro Rosso/Honda | 1:33.980 | 2.929 | 0.121 |
17 | 35 | Sergey Sirotkin | Williams/Mercedes | 1:34.050 | 2.999 | 0.012 |
18 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Williams/Mercedes | 1:34.285 | 3.234 | – |
19 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Sauber/Ferrari | 1:34.382 | 3.331 | 0.072 |
20 | 9 | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber/Ferrari | 1:34.796 | 3.745 | 0.118 |