George Russell took victory in the Chinese Grand Prix sprint to continue his unblemished start to the F1 season, beating Charles Leclerc by +0.6 seconds.<\/p>\n
The Mercedes driver topped FP1 and took pole for the one-third distance race at the Shanghai International Circuit.<\/p>\n
His four-second lead had been wiped out by the Nico Hulkenberg-induced safety car, but a poor restart from Leclerc handed him an unexpected advantage at the restart.<\/p>\n
Lewis Hamilton rounded out the podium places, having struggled to keep pace with his team-mate, who charged through from sixth on the grid.<\/p>\n
Kimi Antonelli served his 10-second time penalty when the leading cars pitted during the safety car intervention, and was able to recover to fifth.<\/p>\n
Max Verstappen, who started from eighth, fell down the order in the early running, but dragged his Red Bull back to P9, just missing out on points.<\/p>\n
Check out the full results from the Chinese Grand Prix sprint below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell took victory in the Chinese Grand Prix sprint to continue his unblemished start to the F1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,42,3513,3516,3514,43,3512,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-328905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-headlines","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}