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SHANGHAI, China - Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton won the 2015 Chinese GP for the fourth time and leading another 1-2 for the team.
Nico Rosberg was second with Ferrari’s boys Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen in third and fourth.
The race started with Hamilton positioning his car with a warning to team mate Nico Rosberg as he took off with a brilliant start while Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo bogged down when the lights went green.
FIGHTING FOR POSITION
The midfield group was fighting for position and soon after Toro Rosso’s Carlos Sainz spun out on the harder tyres in Turn 2 putting him at the back of the field.
On L6 Red Bull told Daniil Kyvat: "Okay Danny, you have Ricciardo behind - you are on different strategies."
L7 saw race leader Hamilton setting a new fastest lap - holding a 1.0s advantage over Rosberg, with Ferrari’s Vettel a further 2.2s behind.
Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg went off track on L9 and said on the team radio “Something bad happened”, referring to the gearbox.
Williams’ Felipe Massa was the first to enter the pitslane to change to the harder compound tyres. Ferrari and Mercedes were the only teams to be out on the softer tyres while everyone else had already come in for a pit stop. Vettel was then the first of the leaders in P3 to come in for a stop on L13. Vettel put on another set of soft tyres and returned to the track in P5 while Massa joined in P8.
