Shanghai Paddock alarm: four teams and pirelli, involved

She is F1 World Cup 24 Appointments are planned for this 2025 and begin to always complicated, from the point of view of the logistics of a transcontinental transfer, double appointment. On Sunday night the teams packed all the material paddock to move it to Melbourne Tullamarine International Airport and from there is distributed in direct positions to Shanghai International AirportFlights of more than 10 hours only without technical problems. After customs procedures, one more time and ten from the airport to Shanghai International Circuit To deliver it to the teams and continue to assemble the event. However, not everyone came out as planned, especially for the four teams and the Pirelli tire supplier.

There was a delay of two of the charges, which moved the cars of McLaren F1, Mercedes, Red Bull and Aston Martin, And also the Pirelli supplier is involved. The material involved in the containers. The loading is expected to arrive on Monday night or no later than Tuesday morning, which will give them a three or four -day margin to the equipment to prepare cars. However, it did not arrive until Wednesday afternoon (between 4 and 17), they lost about 30 hours.

The problem was that in 2022 F1 and FIA decided to arrange work hours over the weekend to ensure more rest opportunities for mechanics, which in recent years have remained late to work in cars. On Wednesday the curfew starts at 19 local hours, with hardly the teams and the supplier involved in some long hours.

There are exceptions to jump the curfew throughout the campaign and FIA in a wonderful way he decided that they didn’t spend one of the comfortable logistics out of China and was able to skip the schedule at this time so they could prepare everything for the start of the Grand Prize without problems.