It allowed him to retain his lead before marching to his first win of the campaign, the 54th of his incredible career, and his fifth from the last six Grands Prix stretching back to last season.
Now with each Hamilton and Vettel winning a grand prix in 2017, one can expect a fierce battle between the two at the third race of the season to be held this weekend in Bahrain. Teammate Sebastian Vettel finished second and may have challenged for the win were it not for a strategy gamble early in the race which was undone by a poorly-timed Safety Car as the track dried out.
It was Hamilton's second straight pole of the season, but this time he was able to hold off Sebastian Vettel, victor of the season-opening Australian Grand Prix a fortnight ago. I feel like I am at my best, too.
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"Max's performance was impressive", Lauda admitted, "but I do not think Red Bull really got any closer".
Motorsport fans gathered together in the rain to attend to the 2017 Chinese Grand Prix Formula One Championships at the Shanghai Circuit. But the triple world champion is revelling in the new dynamic of his fight with Vettel. And then we came here and he said I did the better job and he acknowledged that.
"Who knows, maybe we'll have times where we are racing hard together, and of course there could be that scenario where one of us thinks something is unfair, or has been too aggressive, whatever it may be". Sebastian was unfortunate and I didn't really understand what was going on behind because I had the Red Bulls there and the Ferraris weren't getting past. I felt a long time before that we would need to stop at some point, so I'd rather do it earlier rather than later, to get out of the traffic I had in front of me. I think the auto was behaving pretty nicely on fresh tyres, but the fronts just went away after two laps. "And Ferrari are at their best in years", Hamilton said. Vettel also proved he was up for the fight with two masterful overtakes - the first on his own team-mate Kimi Raikkonen - before Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo became his next victim. However, a crash for Sauber's Antonio Giovinazzi, meant the safety vehicle was deployed again and Hamilton and co could pit without losing time. Bottas was sixth after spinning in the wet behind the safety auto, with Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz in seventh, Haas' Kevin Magnussen in eighth and Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon in ninth and tenth, respectively.
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