CHINESE GP : Daniel Ricciardo Wins His First Race Of The Season
Daniel Ricciardo won the Chinese GP after shockingly overtaking, Hamilton, Vettel and Bottas to make it first to the Podium for the Red Bull team.
“We have a tough battle ahead of us,” Hamilton admitted to Sky Sports. “We’ve been underperforming and yesterday and today have been a disaster on my side. I need to try and rectify that and get myself back into normal performance back or otherwise more valuable points will be lost.
“I’m thankful for a couple of incidents that happened ahead kept us in the battle.”
Driver Team Time
1) Daniel Ricciardo /Red Bull
2) Valtteri Bottas /Mercedes/ +8.894
3) Kimi Raikkonen/ Ferrari /+9.637
4) Lewis Hamilton/ Mercedes /+16.985
5) Max Verstappen /Red Bull /+20.436
6) Nico Hulkenberg/ Renault/ +21.052
7) Fernando Alonso /McLaren /+30.639
8) Sebastian Vettel/ Ferrari /+35.286
9) Carlos Sainz /Renault/ +35.763
10) Kevin Magnussen /Haas /+39.594
11) Esteban Ocon/ Force India /+ 44.050
12) Sergio Perez /Force India /+ 44.725
13) Stoffel Vandoorne /McLaren /+ 49.373
14) Lance Stroll /Williams/ + 55.490
15) Sergey Sirotkin/ Williams /+ 58.241
16) Marcus Ericsson /Sauber /+ 62.604
17) Romain Grosjean /Haas/ + 65.296
18) Pierre Gasly /Toro Rosso /+ 66.330
19) Charles Leclerc /Sauber /+82.575
20) Brendon Hartley/ Toro Rosso /Retired