Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, April 14 (reporter Xu DONGWON, Guo Jingdan) the teammate Bothas who surpassed the pole position, led all the way and finally won the champion of the 1000th station in F1 history, this is Hamilton’s sixth time to win the Shanghai Grand Prix and the 75th race champion in his career.
The Mercedes driver ranked second in qualifying. After departure, he seized the opportunity to surpass his teammate Bottas and kept his advantage to the end. It finally took 1 hour at 32 minutes 6 seconds 350, become the champion of the 1000th race in F1 history. Bothas and Ferrari ranked the second and third place, behind Hamilton 6 seconds 552 and 13 seconds 744 respectively.
Red Bull’s Vista pan ranks fourth, Ferrari’s Leclerc ranks fifth, and Finnish driver Raikkonen finished the ninth place. It is worth mentioning that since the start of this season, Mercedes has won one or two for three consecutive stops.
On the 14th, cloudy weather and falling temperatures brought a lot of uncertainty to the stadium. In the warm bead, the Red Bull team’s Vista Pan and Williams team’s Kubica cars have skidded.
In the previous day’s qualifying, the fastest boat pole position was set off. Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull teams occupy the first three rows of departure positions respectively. At the beginning of the race, Bottas was pushed to the second place. Coviart of Red Bull team 2 collided with two McLaren cars, causing a short yellow banner on the track, and Norris and SAINCE also fell to the end.
On the 36th lap, Mercedes chose to let Hamilton and Botas enter the station at the same time. The former took 3.2 seconds while the latter took 3 seconds. Ferrari’s two racing cars have been trying to catch up. But in the 39th lap, BOTAS overtook Le Claire, and Mercedes’s two racing cars firmly occupied the top two.
In the third last lap, the Garry of the Red Bull team changed into a brand new soft tire, and finally exceeded the fastest lap speed created by Vettel that day, getting an extra 1 point. The best driver of this Grand Prix belongs to Alben. He started from the maintenance area and finally finished the race with the 10th place.
After this site, Hamilton became the first place in the drivers’ standings. Bottas and Vista pan ranked second and third respectively, and Vitale climbed to fourth. In terms of the team, Mercedes remained ahead, followed by Ferrari and Red Bull, and Renault rose to fourth place.