Lewis Hamilton He won a Sprint race for the first time and made him dressed in red: with the Ferrarithe English heptacampeón won the battle to Max Verstappenthat he had left second and finished third, behind Oscar Plastri. As counterpart, Jack Doohan It crashed on the last lap and ended last with Franco frankntoto Looking at him from the Alpine box.
Lewis Hamilton vs Max Verstappen. That fight that in 2021 fell in love with those who had moved away from Formula 1 for their monotony and that brought so many others revived in Shanghai, where the start of the first Sprint race of the year found them in the front row. The British, now defending Ferrari’s red color, had obtained pole and left the first drawer well to close the interior and prevent the Dutchman from getting into the first curve.
It was such a neat and safe beginning that of heptacampeón that in the second round, when the DRS was already enabled, the current tetrampone was already more than a second. Who did not have a good time at the start, on the other hand, was Lando Norris, the leader of the championship after winning in Australia, who went wide in the braking and paid the consequences falling three positions to the ninth place.
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The best, as a counterpoint, was Pierre Gasly, who with the Alpine rose three positions to be 14 °, relegating, among others, his partner Jack Doohan -the one indicated as a fuse for the entrance of Franco Colapinto -, which passed from 16 ° to 18 °. The Australian, a few laps later, suffered the impact of Liam Lawson on curve 14 and fell to the 19th place.
The other Ferrari, with Charles Leclerc behind the wheel, tried to go on the podium after the start but Oscar Piastri took care of his position and, shortly after, George Russell took advantage of his Mercedes to overcome Monegasco, in one of the few surpasses of the start of the race agreed to 19 laps.
It was shortly before the middle where the wear of the tires began to be noticed: while Norris indicated it on the radio, in the official transmission that graining was seen in the left front rubber of the Hamilton Ferrari, which lost ground with a Verstappen that moved between four and six tenths of distance with a Red Bull that lost ground with the machine but not with the pilot.
The emotions, for the moment, were reserved for the middle zone, with a Gasly passing to Hadjar and then to Sainz and Lawson Bortoleto, but not before touching the Brazilian and losing some small piece of his Red Bull. There, the Spaniard also collapsed, which on Vuelta 12 was called to Boxes to change the intermediate tires to Williams that until last season ran Collapint, which sent it to the bottom of the classifier.
With five laps for the end, and with Piastri pressing Verstappen, Hamilton escaped two seconds to go to look for his first victory in a Sprint race but in a circuit that feels so good that he is the top winner of the Chinese Grand Prix, with six victories and also six poles -without telling this Friday in the classification of the Sprint-. “The tires are dead,” the Dutch warned and said goodbye to the fight for the 12th victory in this format that the F1 incorporated in 2021. In the 16th turn, in the long back line and with the DRS activated, Piastri took the second place.
What happened to Doohan? He had a bad performance, because he lost the position with Nico Hulkenberg’s Haas, who had started from the Pitlane for breaking the closed park, and when it seemed that it was ahead of Sainz, whom that stop in boxes had ruined his race, crashed with Bortoleto in the final meters and ended last. Above, he was even more exposed by his teammate, who finished 12 – in the end he made a great overtaking out of Oliver Bearman (Haas) – after long.
Doohan and a touch in the closure of the Sprint: he suffered Bortoleto.
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