The second session of the day starts at 7am UK time and you can follow all the action in our liveblog below. Sebastian Vettel took first blood this morning in free practice one, but the gap between the top four drivers looked very slim. Lewis Hamilton split the two Ferrari drivers, while Max Verstappen made a positive improvement.
#F1 #ChineseGP #Race1000 Results FP1. #MsportXtra pic.twitter.com/DaAdG6vZI7
— #MsportXtra (@MsportXtra) April 12, 20191000th Grand Prix
If you've not been living under a rock, you'll have heard about the 1000th Grand Prix. This weekend in China, celebrations will be thrown as the sport clocks up a major milestone. There's already been plenty of nostalgic flashbacks, including this one!
Prince Birabongse Bhanudej Bhanubandh, more commonly known as Prince B. Bira, took part in the very first #F1 race at Silverstone in 1950!999 races later, his memory is celebrated once more #ChineseGP #Race1000 pic.twitter.com/eFNF8ISwrd
— Formula 1 (@F1) 11 april 2019