In his latest Motorsport.com column, McLaren driver Stoffel Vandoorne looks back at a mixed Chinese Grand Prix race, in which early promise was followed by another retirement. Everyone at McLaren-Honda knew that the Chinese Grand Prix was not going to be an easy weekend, but I don’t think even we could have predicted that everyone would lose Friday running because of the weather. The decision to cancel the afternoon practice session at Shanghai after the interrupted one in the morning meant everyone was lacking mileage – and with that forcing a compressed schedule on Saturday morning, it was not an ideal way to go into qualifying. Don’t forget that Friday was going to be my first...
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