Hamilton Stops Vettel Dominance - China Report

Lewis Hamilton put all thoughts of last weekend behind him to take the victory at Shanghai, in a thrilling race.

Sebastian Vettel came second despite having tyre problems at the end hence Hamilton ovetaking him with 4 laps to go.

Jenson Button drives into the Red Bull Pit Box.

Mark Webber stormed to come home 3rd, a great result and drive considering he started 18th and had a poor first stint on the Prime tyres, but had 3 fresh sets of options which enabled him to come to the leaders towards the end of the race.

Jenson Button finished 4th as he made a terrible error when coming in for his first stop ahead of Sebastian Vettel but he came into the wrong pitbox as he stopped at the Red Bull box.This lead to Sebastian getting ahead and taking the position onto the track

Nico Rosberg came 5th,Felipe Massa came 6th the pair of them with solid drives and both of them at one point on course for a podium finish.

Fernando Alonso came home a frustrated 7th as his Ferrari just lacked pace. He also had DRS problems as his DRS opened when he was trying to get past Michael Schumacher.It was in a Non DRS Zone and it luckily closed a moment later.

Lewis and McLaren celebrate the victory in Shanghai

Michael Schumacher crossed the line right behind Fernando in 8th place.

Vitaly Petrov put aside his horrible qualifying and came 9th for Renault and Kobayashi for Sauber closed off the points positions with a solid 10th place.

Full Race Results:

Pos  Driver        Team                       Time
 1.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes           1h36:58.226
 2.  Vettel        Red Bull-Renault           +     5.198
 3.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault           +     7.555
 4.  Button        McLaren-Mercedes           +    10.000
 5.  Rosberg       Mercedes                   +    13.448
 6.  Massa         Ferrari                    +    15.840
 7.  Alonso        Ferrari                    +    30.622
 8.  Schumacher    Mercedes                   +    31.206
 9.  Petrov        Renault                    +    57.404
10.  Kobayashi     Sauber-Ferrari             +  1:03.273
11.  Di Resta      Force India-Mercedes       +  1:08.757
12.  Heidfeld      Renault                    +  1:12.739
13.  Barrichello   Williams-Cosworth          +  1:30.189
14.  Buemi         Toro Rosso-Ferrari         +  1:30.671
15.  Sutil         Force India-Mercedes       +     1 lap
16.  Kovalainen    Lotus-Renault              +     1 lap
17.  Perez         Sauber-Ferrari             +     1 lap
18.  Maldonado     Williams-Cosworth          +     1 lap
19.  Trulli        Lotus-Renault              +     1 lap
20.  D'Ambrosio    Virgin-Cosworth            +    2 laps
21.  Glock         Virgin-Cosworth            +    2 laps
22.  Karthikeyan   HRT-Cosworth               +    2 laps
23.  Liuzzi        HRT-Cosworth               +    2 laps

Fastest lap: Webber, 1:38.993

World Championship standings, round 3:                

Drivers:                    Constructors:             
 1.  Vettel        68        1.  Red Bull-Renault          105
 2.  Hamilton      47        2.  McLaren-Mercedes           85
 3.  Button        38        3.  Ferrari                    50
 4.  Webber        37        4.  Renault                    32
 5.  Alonso        26        5.  Mercedes                   16
 6.  Massa         24        6.  Sauber-Ferrari              7
 7.  Petrov        17        7.  Toro Rosso-Ferrari          4
 8.  Heidfeld      15        8.  Force India-Mercedes        4
 9.  Rosberg       10       
10.  Kobayashi      7       
11.  Schumacher     6       
12.  Buemi          4       
13.  Di Resta       2       
14.  Sutil          2       

Race Highlights:

The teams will have a three week break before they start their engines again in

the Turkish Grand Prix.