Chinese Sprint GP: Lewis Hamilton claims Ferrari’s first victory after retaining Max Verstappen at the start | F1 News

Lewis Hamilton won his first victory for Ferrari by winning the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint.

Having taken a surprise post on Friday, Hamilton held Max Verstappen at the start and in the first steps, before managing his tires to go to victory.

The victory was a first for Hamilton and Ferrari in a sprint, and marked an amazing turnaround of its disappointing beginnings for the Italian team during the Australian opening of the season last weekend.

Oscar Piastri de McLaren passed Verstappen for second place in the last stages, but had removed his tires too much to hunt Hamilton, who won nearly seven seconds.

The winner of Melbourne, Lando Norris, kept the advance of the championship of his pilots after having scored a single point to finish eighth, after having abandoned three places of his starting position from sixth after an opening error.

George Russell finished fourth for Mercedes after retaining Hamilton Ferrari teammate, Charles Leclerc, whom he exceeded in the first round.

Yuki Tsunoda led superbly for racing bulls to take the sixth, holding the replacement of Mercedes de Hamilton, Andrea Kimi Antonelli.

More to follow …

Live Sky Sports F1

Saturday March 22

• 5:45 am: F1 Academy Race 1 *
• 6:35 am: Chinese GP qualification accumulation *
• 7 am: Chinese GP qualification *
• 9 am: TED’s qualification book *

Sunday March 23

• 2h40: F1 Academy Race 2
• 5:30 am: Chinese GP building: Sunday Grand Prix *
• 7 am: The Chinese Grand Prix *
• 9 am: Chinese GP reaction: checkerboard flag *
• 10 am: TED notebook *

* Also on the main event of Sky Sports

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