China Grand Prix - Shang Hai - 17th April

[Guest]

Well, I've failed miserably to update the grand prix reports so far this year. So as a catch up heres the grid and result for China:

Qualifying

1   Sebastian Vettel   Red Bull   1:33.706
2   Jenson Button   McLaren   +0.71
3   Lewis Hamilton   McLaren   +0.75
4   Nico Rosberg   Mercedes GP   +0.96
5   Fernando Alonso   Ferrari   +1.41
6   Felipe Massa   Ferrari   +1.43
7   Jaime Alguersuari   Toro Rosso   +2.45
8   Paul Di Resta   Force India   +2.48
9   Sebastien Buemi   Toro Rosso   +2.49
10   Vitaly Petrov   Renault   -
11   Adrian Sutil   Force India   -
12   Sergio Perez   Sauber   -
13   Kamui Kobayashi   Sauber   -
14   Michael Schumacher   Mercedes GP   -
15   Rubens Barrichello   Williams   -
16   Nick Heidfeld   Renault   -
17   Pastor Maldonado   Williams   -
18   Mark Webber   Red Bull   -
19   Heikki Kovalainen   Team Lotus   -
20   Jarno Trulli   Team Lotus   -
21   Jerome DAmbrosio   Virgin Racing   -
22   Timo Glock   Virgin Racing   -
23   Vitantonio Liuzzi   Hispania Racing   -
24   Narain Karthikeyan   Hispania Racing   -

[MadBoB]

Well, I've failed miserably to update the grand prix reports so far this year. So as a catch up heres the grid and result for China:

Qualifying

1   Sebastian Vettel   Red Bull   1:33.706
2   Jenson Button   McLaren   +0.71
3   Lewis Hamilton   McLaren   +0.75
4   Nico Rosberg   Mercedes GP   +0.96
5   Fernando Alonso   Ferrari   +1.41
6   Felipe Massa   Ferrari   +1.43
7   Jaime Alguersuari   Toro Rosso   +2.45
8   Paul Di Resta   Force India   +2.48
9   Sebastien Buemi   Toro Rosso   +2.49
10   Vitaly Petrov   Renault   -
11   Adrian Sutil   Force India   -
12   Sergio Perez   Sauber   -
13   Kamui Kobayashi   Sauber   -
14   Michael Schumacher   Mercedes GP   -
15   Rubens Barrichello   Williams   -
16   Nick Heidfeld   Renault   -
17   Pastor Maldonado   Williams   -
18   Mark Webber   Red Bull   -
19   Heikki Kovalainen   Team Lotus   -
20   Jarno Trulli   Team Lotus   -
21   Jerome DAmbrosio   Virgin Racing   -
22   Timo Glock   Virgin Racing   -
23   Vitantonio Liuzzi   Hispania Racing   -
24   Narain Karthikeyan   Hispania Racing   -

[MadBoB]

And the result:

   Lewis Hamilton   McLaren   3   96:58.226   25.0
2   Sebastian Vettel   Red Bull   1   +5.10   18.0
3   Mark Webber   Red Bull   18   +7.50   15.0
4   Jenson Button   McLaren   2   +10.00   12.0
5   Nico Rosberg   Mercedes GP   4   +13.40   10.0
6   Felipe Massa   Ferrari   6   +15.80   8.0
7   Fernando Alonso   Ferrari   5   +30.60   6.0
8   Michael Schumacher   Mercedes GP   14   +31.00   4.0
9   Vitaly Petrov   Renault   10   +57.40   2.0
10   Kamui Kobayashi   Sauber   13   +63.20   1.0
11   Paul Di Resta   Force India   8   +68.70   0.0
12   Nick Heidfeld   Renault   16   +72.70   0.0
13   Rubens Barrichello   Williams   15   +90.10   0.0
14   Sebastien Buemi   Toro Rosso   9   +90.60   0.0
15   Adrian Sutil   Force India   11   +1 lap   0.0
16   Heikki Kovalainen   Team Lotus   19   +1 lap   0.0
17   Sergio Perez   Sauber   12   +1 lap   0.0
18   Pastor Maldonado   Williams   17   +1 lap   0.0
19   Jarno Trulli   Team Lotus   20   +1 lap   0.0
20   Jerome DAmbrosio   Virgin Racing   21   +2 lap   0.0
21   Timo Glock   Virgin Racing   22   +2 lap   0.0
22   Vitantonio Liuzzi   Hispania Racing   23   +2 lap   0.0
23   Narain Karthikeyan   Hispania Racing   24   +2 lap   0.0
Ret   Jaime Alguersuari   Toro Rosso   loss rear-right wheel

Probably fair to say Hamilton drove his little socks off to get the result.

As did Webber...after a disaster qualifying, drove like an absolute demon on several sets of new Pirellis to pull himself onto the podium - and given another lap wouls have taken Vettel as well.