Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - 6 What happened to Lewis Hamilton over the Chinese Grand Prix weekend? For a race he has won five times, he was surprisingly off the boil in Shanghai, soundly being beaten in both qualifying and the race by Bottas in the sister Mercedes. The W09 car has a narrow operating window for its tyres, but even so, more was expected of Hamilton in China. Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes - 10 Much as in Bahrain, Valtteri Bottas was on brilliant form in Shanghai. He didn’t put a foot wrong, doing all he could in qualifying given Mercedes’ tyre woes to take third before a great start lifted him to second. Used the undercut brilliantly to jump Vettel, and would have won had it...
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