{"id":539447,"date":"2026-03-14T06:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/539447\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T06:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:59:08","slug":"watch-the-action-from-the-china-sprint-as-george-russell-wins-from-charles-leclerc-and-lewis-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/539447\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the action from the China Sprint as George Russell wins from Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">George Russell continued his winning start to the season by taking victory in the Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix \u2013 the Briton having faced an early battle for the lead from Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">After losing out to Hamilton off the line, Russell enjoyed a close fight with the Ferrari in the opening laps before later returning to P1, a position he managed to maintain until the chequered flag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Charles Leclerc climbed up to P2 ahead of his team mate, with McLaren\u2019s Lando Norris fourth while Mercedes\u2019 Kimi Antonelli was fifth \u2013 the Italian having fallen backwards after a difficult start before being handed a 10-second penalty for causing a collision with Red Bull\u2019s Isack Hadjar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">There was more drama when the Safety Car was called for in the latter stages due to Audi\u2019s Nico Hulkenberg pulling off the track at Turn 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">To watch the highlights from the Shanghai Sprint, click go on the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell continued his winning start to the season by taking victory in the Sprint at the Chinese&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-539447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}