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F1 Chinese language GP: Piastri wins in dominant McLaren 1-2
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F1 Chinese language GP: Piastri wins in dominant McLaren 1-2

Motorsports March 24, 2025
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Oscar Piastri secured victory on the Chinese language Grand Prix as he benefited from placing his McLaren on pole place to keep away from the tyre problems with the chasing pack.
With tyre administration the order of the day all through the sector, Piastri was in a position to management his race and took the third win of his profession, main dwelling team-mate Lando Norris, who was pressured to handle a worsening brake subject within the closing levels.
George Russell was too far adrift to cross Norris regardless of the tumbling tempo of his compatriot however sealed consecutive third-place finishes for 2025.

A half-century of one-two finishes within the historical past of McLaren confirmed it’s once more the workforce to beat at current.

Having been the worst workforce on the grid within the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, Haas secured a double factors end with Esteban Ocon seventh and a feisty Oliver Bearman tenth.

Max Verstappen, Purple Bull Racing, Oliver Bearman, Haas F1 Staff

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Piastri squeezed Russell off the road, permitting Norris to make a transfer because the Papaya Guidelines noticed the McLaren team-mates work collectively to guide the sector.

It was the other story at Ferrari, nonetheless, as Leclerc clipped Hamilton and suffered wing injury, though the duo did each cross Verstappen’s Purple Bull.

Fernando Alonso was pressured to retire on lap 4 because the brakes on his Aston Martin gave up the ghost.

In the meantime, Norris was complaining of graining on the troublesome left-front tyre with simply eight laps on the board, with Piastri profiting from operating in clear air.

The pitstop window opened on lap 11 as Leclerc disagreed along with his workforce over which plan to implement, because the Monegasque ran shut behind his team-mate.

The undercut labored nicely for the midfield runners and decrease factors positions, with Yuki Tsunoda getting previous Antonelli.

Each Hamilton and Verstappen stopped on lap 14, with Piastri boxing a lap later and having a slower cease than he would have needed as he was stationary for 3.8 seconds.

Norris was in a lap later and misplaced out to Russell, who got here in a lap earlier to regain his internet second place within the grand prix, nevertheless it lasted only one lap earlier than the McLaren retook the place into flip one the subsequent time round.

On his twenty ninth birthday, Albon inherited the lead, having not stopped but, however quickly fell into the clutches of the general frontrunners.

Elsewhere, Hamilton was resisting requests from Ferrari to swap locations with Leclerc, with each homing in on Russell, however begrudgingly ceded to the workforce name at first of lap 21.

McLaren was managing its two lead drivers nicely, Piastri pushing the tempo to permit Norris to comply with swimsuit and pull additional away from Russell with out getting into the soiled air of the race chief.

As these two-stopping began to pit once more, the leaders have been fast sufficient to remain out on the laborious compound, with Verstappen coming alive and chasing the pack.

Hamilton opted to pit on lap 38 for contemporary laborious tyres within the purpose of catching the highest 5 in direction of the tip of the race, though it didn’t pan out for the winner of Saturday’s dash race.

The Racing Bulls of Tsunoda and Isack Hadjar additionally each opted for a second cease and have been chopping via the sector in direction of the highest 10 till Tsunoda suffered a entrance wing subject and Hadjar was run large by Jack Doohan’s Alpine, who was hit with a 10-second penalty in consequence.

Out entrance, Norris reported a brake subject because the pitwall urged warning somewhat than pushing to shut in on Piastri within the closing levels.

There was no such warning for Verstappen, who attacked Leclerc and bought via with three laps left.

Piastri took the chequered flag and Norris nursed the second McLaren over the road regardless of dropping over three seconds to the chasing Russell on the final lap.

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