Race results 2018 Chinese F1 grand prix

Valtteri Bottas, Daniel Ricciardo & Kimi Raikkonen winners Chinese GP F1/2018

Event: Chinese Grand Prix
Track: Shanghai International Circuit

Weather:  Dry 18.9ºC
Tarmac: Dry 39ºC
Humidity: 23.4%

Daniel Ricciardo won the 2018 Chinese Grand Prix today for Red Bull. It was his 6th F1 race win. And the 56th for Red Bull. It was his first podium and win in China.

The top 4 drivers stated the race on the yellow soft tyres. Both Red Bull's started on the faster ultra soft tyres.

The start of the race was clean and without any collisions. Red Bull driver Max Verstappen who started on P5 passed the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton and the Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen in the first 4 corners to go to P3.

Brendon Hartley made the first pitstop to get rid of his ultra soft tyres.

On lap 18 Verstappen and Ricciardo made a pit stop to swap the ultra softs for medium compound tyres. A lap later Hamilton also pitted and swapped the softs for medium tyres. Bottas did the same a lap later.

Sebastian Vettel pitted in lap 21 and when he came out of the pit he was passed by Valtteri Bottas.

In lap 32 the safety car was deployed because the debris on the track after the collision between Toro Rosso drivers Brendon Hartley and Pierre Gasley had to be cleared

Start Chinese GP F1/2018

Red Bull took this opportunity to pit Ricciardo and Verstappen to get new soft compound tyres to try and move up some places. They both lost a place by doing this, but had a major advantage on the cars in front.

Max Verstappen was in front of Ricciardo but was to brave to try and pass Hamilton on the outside in turn 7. He drove on the rubber marbles and lost control of is car, drove of the track and lost 2 to Ricciardo and Raikkonen.

A few laps later he collided with the Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel in the hairpin at the end of the long straight. Both drivers spun and lost a lot of places. Verstappen lost the podium by this manoeuvre and also received a 10 sec. penalty.

Ricciardo passed all 5 cars in front and took the lead in lap 45 to win the race and also drove the fastest lap.

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F1 classification 2018 Chinese GP

P	No	Driver	Team	Time	Laps	Grid	Pts
1	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	01:35:36.380	56	6	25
2	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	01:35:45.274	56	3	18
3	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	01:35:46.017	56	2	15
4	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	01:35:53.365	56	4	12
5	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	01:35:56.816	56	5	10
6	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Renault	01:35:57.432	56	7	8
7	14	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	01:36:07.019	56	13	6
8	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	01:36:11.666	56	1	4
9	55	Carlos Sainz	Renault	01:36:12.143	56	9	2
10	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	01:36:15.974	56	11	1
11	31	Esteban Ocon	Force India	01:36:20.430	56	12	0
12	11	Sergio Pérez	Force India	01:36:21.105	56	8	0
13	2	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	01:36:25.753	56	14	0
14	18	Lance Stroll	Williams	01:36:31.870	56	18	0
15	35	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	01:36:34.621	56	16	0
16	9	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	01:36:38.984	56	20	0
17	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas	01:36:41.676	56	10	0
18	10	Pierre Gasly	Toro Rosso	01:36:42.710	56	17	0
19	16	Charles Leclerc	Sauber	01:36:58.955	56	19	0
20	28	Brendon Hartley	Toro Rosso	Gearbox	51	15	0

Fastest lap: 135.785 min by Daniel Ricciardo  (Red Bull RB14) in lap 55
Highest speed: 343.8 km/h by Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari SF71H)

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