For all of the hype surrounding Formula 1’s 1,000th world championship race, Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix turned out to be a fairly forgettable affair. Save the team orders tensions that sparked at Ferrari as Charles Leclerc continued to put pressure on Sebastian Vettel in the early days of their teammate partnership, it looked on paper like Mercedes simply waltzed away at the front, easing to its third straight one-two finish. But Ferrari did not go down without a fight in Shanghai. It’s just that fight was mismanaged and, with Leclerc, ill-planned, meaning it spurned yet more precious points two weeks after its Bahrain meltdown. Mercedes broke out of the blocks early, making its...
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