Lewis Hamilton won his first win as a Ferrari driver after winning a light-to-flag in the Sprint Race at Chinese Grand Prix.
In his second race weekend in the Red, Hamilton qualified on the pole position and won the 19-lap race, which took place in Shanghai on Saturday morning, which occurred before qualifying for a full-length grind prix.
The win is not only the first win of Hamilton as Ferrari driver, but also the first win of the seven -time champion in the Sprint format of the F1 as it was introduced in 2021.
Hamilton shut down the old rival Max Vastapane for the first 10 laps of the race, before the red bull driver began to struggle with the front tire issues and focused his focus to catch the Oscar Piastry behind him.
Piastry passed Verustapane for the second place at 15 lap 15 of the race, but lost time for Hamilton and ended for 6.8 seconds behind the Ferrari driver on the checked flag.
Hamilton’s victory in Australia provides renewed hope for a championship fight after struggling in Australia and McLaren seemed prominent.
He scored eight points to win, to add a single point in Australia to him, but in his second attempt the Grand Prix will enter the rest of the weekend with a new hope of challenge to win.
Lando Noris, who won the first race of the season in Melbourne, terminated Saturday’s sprint in the eighth, scoring just one point after leaving three places in Turn 6 with a mistake.
George Russell finished fourth for Mercedes, which after passing Charles Lakeler’s Ferrari for a position on Turn 14 on the opening lap.
Lakeler ran fifth with an impressive performance by racing bulls driver Yuki Sunoda, who shut down the second Mercedes of Andrea Kimi Antonally in sixth place.
