Chinese GP: Oscar Piastra beat Land Norris in the dominant McLaren One-Two with Lewis Hamilton in six for Ferrari | F1 news

Oscar Piastra beat the teammate Land Norris while McLaren sealed the dominant one two on the Chinese Grand Prix.

Pole-Sitter Piastra never looked like he had given up his victory, his third F1 career, and gave the perfect answer after ending up at his home event in Melbourne last weekend.

Norris was intimidated in the final circles due to brake problems, but was in second place from Russell, who made the podium back to start the season in third place.

Max Verstappen overtook Charles Leclerca’s fourth in the big battle in the last stages of Grand Prix to limit the damage and laged eight points for Norris in the F1 driver championship.

Lewis Hamilton ended up in a lonely sixth because he was unable to make a two -line race compared to other front runners in one place.

After winning Saturday’s Sprint, it was expected that Hamilton would fight for the upper places, but he rarely showed a great pace and was asked to let Leclerc go early in the race

The Ferrari duo made contact in the initial circle, and Leclerc damaged the front wing, but that did not affect his pace.

Esteban Ocon scored his first points for Haas in the seventh, in front of Mercedes ‘Kimi Antonelli and Williams’ Alex Albona in ninth.

British teenager Oliver Bearman impressed the terrain in the second half of the race on an alternative strategy to finish at the last point in 10th place.

Piastra Krstari to victory while Norris prevails with brakes

In addition to the Pit Stop phase, Piastra led each round of Chinese Grand Prix and showed why this year he is a title candidate.

He assisted the teammate Norris, squeezing Russell to turn 1, which allowed Norris to sweep around the outside and move to another place with everyone who is aware of the importance of a position in Shanghai.

Norris grew up, although during the first, and only, the pit stops the leaders, but the McLaren driver quickly returned to second place with a shift down the interior to the first corner.

At one point, Norris came into his five -second deficit to Piastria before encouraging him to run his tires, so he never arrived within two seconds from the Australian.

In the last six rounds, Norris has told the team to suffer from a “long slipper” because of the brake problems, so he retired, but had enough margin to reject Russell for 1.3 seconds.

Returning world champion Verstappen maximized his car performance in the fourth place when it looked like he would be sixth.

After Hamilton decided to wrap the second time, Verstappen moved to fifth place and grabbed Leclerca before overtaking him with an amazing move around the outside in 3.

Red Bull and Ferrari will be worried about McLaren’s pace after they have completed more than 15 seconds behind the winner of the Piastra race on the trail that traditionally shows the best aerodynamic car.

McLaren’s two two put 25 points ahead of Mercedes in the Championship Construction in front of Suzuka in two weeks.

Hamilton and Leclerc collide, but that has no difference

Ferrari’s pace in Sprinta did not turn into a Sunday 56 round race, but they almost had bigger problems when Leclerc touched Hamilton’s rear tire at the openings.

Leclerc was side by side with Verstappen and said that “he did not expect” Hamilton would move in front of him, but said he was not guilty of his teammate.

Monegasque driver has suffered damage to the front wings, and Ferrari said he lost “20 to 30 points” of power, which is about 0.2 to 0.3s per round.

However, Leclerc was faster than Hamilton, and the latter was asked to release his teammate, doing so after the first pit stopped.

Hamilton was the only driver in the top 10 to be twice guaranteed and failed to do the strategy as he crossed the line in the sixth.

By the way, it was a race without an incident, because Haas Bearman made an alternative stubborn strategy with some big superiors on the way to 10th place.

Liam Lawson Red Bull showed a small pace in 15th place, and Novalia Jack Doohan received the only penalty of the race for forcing Isack Hadjar from the track to 16th place.

Hadjar and Yuki Tsunod were supposed to score points, but the Racing Bull strategy put them both in the packaging and could not return through the field.

Fernando Alonso Aston Martin was the only retirement for brake problems.

What did the first three say

Oscar Piastra, McLaren – 1: “He passed the incredible weekend from start to finish. The car was quite a mega all the time. I think today it was a little surprise that the tires behaved differently.

“I’m so proud of the whole weekend. That’s what I feel like I deserved since last week. The team did a mega job with one two. I’m very happy.

“It was still a little ticklish on the medium, but much better than yesterday, and then it was hardly a much better tire than everyone expected, or for sure than we expected.

“To go all the way, it was a little surprise, but a happy surprise.”

Lando Norris, McLaren – 2: “A few fun moments. The beginning, I hoped for that, so he turned 1 went to plan. Then George found me at the stops. I was a little nervous, but our pace was much better in the second stay.

So, a difficult race only with the administration. I don’t think many people today did not expect everything in one place, so it was good and Oscar was driving well, he was quick to race.

“He tried to get closer, but in the end he just couldn’t. He deserved to win and drove very well all weekend. I’m pleased with others, these are good points and great points for us as a team with two or two. As we wanted the race to go.”

George Russell, Mercedes – 3: “Really satisfied with P3. We knew McLaren was faster than us, a few key points, but well performed with the two.

“I felt it from quite early that one stack could be possible and it turned out to be a little easier than we probably all expected each other.

But still, the car was great this weekend and probably one of my best weekends in Formula 1 in terms of performance, so very pleased with the team. “

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