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

Pos	#	Driver	Constructor	Car & Engine	Grid	Laps	Led	Time	Pts
1	3	DanielRicciardo	Red Bull	Red Bull RB14Renault R.E.18	6	56	12	1:35:36.380	25
2	77	ValtteriBottas	Mercedes	Mercedes W09Mercedes M09 EQ Power+	3	56	18	1:35:45.274+8.894s	18
3	7	KimiRäikkönen	Ferrari	Ferrari SF71-HFerrari 062 EVO	2	56	6	1:35:46.017+9.637s	15
4	44	LewisHamilton	Mercedes	Mercedes W09Mercedes M09 EQ Power+	4	56		1:35:53.365+16.985s	12
5	33	MaxVerstappen	Red Bull	Red Bull RB14Renault R.E.18	5	56		1:35:56.816+20.436s	10
6	27	NicoHülkenberg	Renault	Renault Sport R.S.18Renault R.E.18	7	56		1:35:57.432+21.052s	8
7	14	FernandoAlonso	McLaren	McLaren MCL33Renault R.E.18	13	56		1:36:07.019+30.639s	6
8	5	SebastianVettel	Ferrari	Ferrari SF71-HFerrari 062 EVO	1	56	20	1:36:11.666+35.286s	4
9	55	CarlosSainz	Renault	Renault Sport R.S.18Renault R.E.18	9	56		1:36:12.143+35.763s	2
10	20	KevinMagnussen	Haas	Haas VF-18Ferrari 062 EVO	11	56		1:36:15.974+39.594s	1
11	31	EstebanOcon	Force India	Force India VJM11Mercedes M09 EQ Power+	12	56		1:36:20.430+44.050s
12	11	SergioPérez	Force India	Force India VJM11Mercedes M09 EQ Power+	8	56		1:36:21.105+44.725s
13	2	StoffelVandoorne	McLaren	McLaren MCL33Renault R.E.18	14	56		1:36:25.753+49.373s
14	18	LanceStroll	Williams	Williams FW41 Mercedes M09 EQ Power+	18	56		1:36:31.870+55.490s
15	35	SergeySirotkin	Williams	Williams FW41 Mercedes M09 EQ Power+	16	56		1:36:34.621+58.241s
16	9	MarcusEricsson	Sauber	Sauber C37Ferrari 062 EVO	20	56		1:36:38.984+1:02.604
17	8	RomainGrosjean	Haas	Haas VF-18Ferrari 062 EVO	10	56		1:36:41.676+1:05.296
18	10	PierreGasly	Toro Rosso	Toro Rosso STR13Honda RA618H	17	56		1:36:42.710+1:06.330
19	16	CharlesLeclerc	Sauber	Sauber C37Ferrari 062 EVO	19	56		1:36:58.955+1:22.575
20	28	BrendonHartley	Toro Rosso	Toro Rosso STR13Honda RA618H	15	51		Gearbox

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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