Norris could win three races in a row for the first time, Red Bull equal Brabham on the all-time start list and Antonelli could join an exclusive club of drivers who’ve finished in the top four in both of their first two races. Here are the milestones and records which could be broken at the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix!
THE 2025 CHINESE GRAND PRIX MILESTONES
The 2025 Chinese Grand Prix will be the 1,127th World Championship event in Formula 1 history.
The 2025 Chinese Grand Prix will be the 18th Chinese Grand Prix since the event was first held in 2004.
The 2025 Chinese Grand Prix will be the fourth F1 race to take place on March 23. The 1986 Brazilian Grand Prix, the 2003 Malaysian Grand Prix and the 2008 Malaysian Grand Prix are the other races which have taken place on this date.
The 2025 Chinese Grand Prix marks Ferrari’s 1,100th World Championship appearance. Ferrari have made more appearances than any other team in F1’s history, with there being only 33 races at which the team did not start.
Red Bull make their 395th Grand Prix start this weekend, equalling Brabham for seventh on the list of most starts for a constructor in F1 history. Red Bull made their first appearance at the 2005 Australian Grand Prix and have failed to start only one race since then (the 2005 United States Grand Prix).
Lap 50 of the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix will be the 1,000th Grand Prix racing lap at Shanghai International Circuit in the track’s history on the F1 calendar.
The 2025 Chinese Grand Prix will host the first Sprint weekend of the 2025 F1 season. This will be the 19th Sprint event in total. It will be the second time that Shanghai International Circuit has hosted the Sprint format, having done so for the first time last year.
Alex Albon will race on his birthday at the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix. It’s the first time that Albon has raced on his birthday. It will be the 78th time that a driver has raced on their birthday in F1. Albon will celebrate his 29th birthday on the day of the race. He’s the first driver to race on his 29th birthday since Daniel Ricciardo at the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix and the 13th to do so in total. Heikki Kovalainen and Romain Grosjean are the only other drivers to have celebrated their birthdays by racing in the Chinese Grand Prix.
NORRIS AND McLAREN LEAD THE WAY
Having won the last two races, if Lando Norris wins the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix he will become the 22nd driver to have recorded a streak of three victories in his Formula 1 career.
A win for Lando Norris would make this the 20th time that a driver has won both of the first two races of the season. It would be only the second time it has happened in the last seven seasons, with Max Verstappen having achieved the feat last year.
A 1-2 result for Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri would make this the 50th 1-2 finish for McLaren in Formula 1. They would be the third team to reach the milestone, after Ferrari at the 2001 Malaysian Grand Prix and Mercedes at the 2019 French Grand Prix.
McLaren have locked out the front row at each of the last two races. Another front row lockout at the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix would make this the first time McLaren have recorded three in a row since the 2007 Monaco, Canadian and United States Grands Prix.
If Oscar Piastri finishes the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix, it will be the 30th consecutive race which he has finished. He has completed every Grand Prix since the 2023 Mexico City Grand Prix. It would see him equal the eighth-longest finishing streak in F1 history.
WILL ANTONELLI CONTINUE TO IMPRESS?
If Kimi Antonelli finishes in the points at the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix, he will become the 15th driver to have scored points in both of his first two World Championship starts. The last driver to do so was Antonelli’s F2 team-mate Ollie Bearman.
A top five finish this weekend for Antonelli would make him the fifth driver to finish in the top five on both of his first starts, after Art Cross (who only competed in the Indianapolis 500), Bruce McLaren, Peter Arundell, Clay Regazzoni and Lewis Hamilton. Meanwhile, another top four result would make him only the fourth driver to start his career with consecutive top four results, after Arundell, Regazzoni and Hamilton.
A pole position at any race in 2025 for Kimi Antonelli, Ollie Bearman, Gabriel Bortoleto or Isack Hadjar would make them the youngest polesitter in F1 history.
A win at any of the first three races of the 2025 season would make Kimi Antonelli Formula 1’s youngest-ever winner. He will become the sport’s youngest-ever polesitter if he takes pole for any race this year, the youngest podium finisher (if he finishes in the top three before the Bahrain Grand Prix), the youngest driver to lead a lap (before the Bahrain Grand Prix) and the youngest driver to set the fastest lap (if he does so before the United States Grand Prix).
A podium finish for Mercedes would mark the team’s 300th top three finish in F1. They would be the fourth team to reach the milestone, after Ferrari, McLaren and Williams.
WILL VERSTAPPEN RETURN TO WINNING WAYS?
A victory for Max Verstappen would make him the sixth driver to have won a Grand Prix in as many as ten Formula 1 seasons. He would also become the fourth driver – after Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton and Alain Prost – to have won in ten consecutive seasons.
Pole position for Max Verstappen would make him the seventh driver to have taken pole positions in seven consecutive seasons.
Max Verstappen holds the record for wins from the most different grid positions in Formula 1. He’ll become the first driver to win from 11 different grid slots this weekend should he win from 5th, 8th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th, 16th, 18th, 19th or 20th on the grid.
If Max Verstappen leads the race from start to finish, he will equal Sebastian Vettel for third on the list of most F1 races led from start to finish. Verstappen has led 14 Grands Prix from start to end so far in his career.
A Grand Slam for Max Verstappen – winning from pole position having led every lap and set the fastest lap – would be his sixth Grand Slam. That would see him equal Lewis Hamilton for second on the list of most Grand Slams in F1, behind only Jim Clark.
A points finish for Max Verstappen at the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix would be his 23rd consecutive points-scoring Grand Prix. That would see him equal the sixth longest scoring streak in F1 history.
A win for Red Bull in 2025 would make them the fifth team to have won in as many as ten consecutive seasons. The team has won at least one race in every year since 2016.
Red Bull are one fastest lap short of becoming the fifth team to record a century of fastest laps in Formula 1. A fastest lap for a Red Bull driver would make 2025 the 17th consecutive season in which the team has recorded the fastest lap in a Grand Prix. That would equal Ferrari’s record of 17 successive years with a fastest lap, set between 1995 and 2011.
FERRARI BACK ON FORM?
A podium finish for Charles Leclerc at the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix will see him equal Fernando Alonso as the driver to have taken the fifth-most podium finishes with Ferrari in Formula 1.
A win for Lewis Hamilton would make him the 16th driver to have won Grands Prix with as many as three different teams.
If Charles Leclerc scores ten points this weekend, he will overtake Sebastian Vettel as the driver who has scored the most points with Ferrari. Vettel scored 1,400 points with the team from 2015 to 2020, while Leclerc has scored 1,391 points to date.
A win for Ferrari would make 2025 the 60th season in which they’ve won a Grand Prix.
A victory for a Ferrari-powered car this weekend would make Ferrari the first engine manufacturer to have powered 250 victories in Formula 1. Of the 249 previous victories, Sebastian Vettel’s with Toro Rosso at the 2008 Italian Grand Prix is the only one which was not taken in a Ferrari chassis.
THE CHINESE GRAND PRIX RECORDS ON OFFER
Lewis Hamilton holds the record for most Chinese Grand Prix victories and could extend the record for most wins to seven in 2025. Meanwhile, Fernando Alonso could become the second driver to win here on as many as three occasions, while Max Verstappen could become the circuit’s fourth repeat winner. Any other driver winning the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix would make them the 11th different winner at Shanghai International Circuit.
If Max Verstappen wins the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix, he will become the second driver – after Lewis Hamilton in 2014 and 2015 – to win the Chinese Grand Prix in two successive seasons.
Ferrari currently lead the way for most podium finishes in Shanghai, with 13. Their record could be equalled or overtaken at the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix by Mercedes, who have had 12 top three finishes to date in China.
If George Russell and Kimi Antonelli lead 25 laps of the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix between them, Mercedes will become the first team to have led 400 laps at Shanghai International Circuit.
Red Bull have the most fastest laps of any team at the Chinese Grand Prix, with four. Their record could be equalled this weekend by McLaren or Mercedes.
Ferrari and Red Bull could overtake Mercedes as the team who have scored the most points at the Chinese Grand Prix – but they will only do so if they out-score Mercedes by 22 or more points.
If he completes the first 30 laps of the race, Fernando Alonso will become the first driver to have raced 900 laps at Shanghai International Circuit.
Britain lead the way for most podium finishes for a nation at the Chinese Grand Prix, with 14. Their record could be equalled this weekend by Germany.
Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso are currently tied for most top ten finishes at the Chinese Grand Prix, with 13 each. Either driver could set a new outright record this weekend. Meanwhile, Alonso will equal Hamilton for the most points-scoring appearances at Shanghai International Circuit (13) – but only if he scores a point and Hamilton fails to do so.
Oscar Piastri is the only driver who holds a 100% points-scoring appearance rate at the Chinese Grand Prix. He’ll be hoping to hold on to that record in the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix. If he does so, he’d join Fernando Alonso, Giancarlo Fisichella, Jenson Button, Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean as the sixth driver to score points on both of his first appearances at the event.
Yuki Tsunoda will be hoping to move out of a group of seven drivers with a 100% non-finish rate at Shanghai International Circuit. A DNF for Tsunoda in the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix would make him the second driver, after Adrian Sutil, to retire on both of his first two appearances at the track.
A first lap retirement for Lance Stroll would make him the first driver to record multiple first lap DNFs at the Chinese Grand Prix.
2025 CHINESE GRAND PRIX: QUALIFYING RECORDS
There have been five different polesitters at the last five Chinese Grand Prix weekends. If a driver other than Lewis Hamilton or Max Verstappen takes pole for the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix, it would extend the longest streak of different polesitters at Shanghai International Circuit to six.
If a team other than Ferrari, Mercedes or Red Bull take pole position, it would extend the record for the longest streak of different teams on pole in successive races in China to four.
British and German drivers are currently tied for the most pole positions at the Chinese Grand Prix, with six apiece. Either nation could extend the record this weekend.
Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton are currently tied for the most top ten qualifications at Shanghai International Circuit, with 12 each. Either driver could extend the record at the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix.
Oscar Piastri will be hoping to maintain his 100% Q3 appearance rate at the Chinese Grand Prix. Robert Doornbos is the only other driver with a 100% Q3 appearance rate at the track.
A Q1 exit for Lewis Hamilton or Lance Stroll would see them equal the record of three Q3 exits at the Chinese Grand Prix. It’s a record which is currently shared between six drivers.
LONGEVITY RECORDS ON OFFER FOR HAMILTON AND ALONSO
A win for Lewis Hamilton this year would see him move into the top ten of Formula 1’s oldest Grand Prix winners. Meanwhile, a victory for Fernando Alonso would make him the sport’s sixth oldest winner – and the oldest since Jack Brabham at the 1970 South African Grand Prix. Only nine drivers have won races at the age of over 40. The most recent driver to do so was Nigel Mansell, at the 1994 Australian Grand Prix.
A pole position for Lewis Hamilton in 2025 would make him the first driver in his 40s to take pole position since Nigel Mansell at the 1994 Australian Grand Prix. He would be the sixth driver to take a pole position above the age of 40.
Lewis Hamilton is currently tied with Michael Schumacher as the driver who has set the fastest lap of a Grand Prix in the most consecutive seasons. Schumacher set a fastest lap in at least one race in all 15 seasons between 1992 and 2006, while Hamilton has set a fastest lap in every season since 2010. A fastest lap for Hamilton this year would see him become the first driver to take a fastest lap in 16 consecutive seasons.
A win for Fernando Alonso at any race in 2025 would see him set a new record for the longest gap between two Formula 1 victories, with his last having come at the 2013 Spanish Grand Prix. The current record is 6 years, 6 months and 28 days, set by Riccardo Patrese.
A pole position for Fernando Alonso in 2025 would make him the sport’s fourth-oldest polesitter. He would be the oldest polesitter since Jack Brabham at the 1970 Spanish Grand Prix.
