Norris bins it on lap 1, Hamilton keeps Verstappen behind.
All eyes were on Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen at the start. With 11 world titles on the front row of the grid, no surprise, but the battle never came to a head. Hamilton had a good start, shut the door on the Dutchman, leaving the Red Bull Racing driver to settle for second place.
22nd March 2025
Norberto Mujica
GPblog.com

Lando Norris suffered a major setback after starting the sprint race in China. Entering turn five, Norris veered off the track and touched the grass. Resulting in the Briton dropping from P6 to P9.

Lando Norris had the worst start of the top drivers. The Briton got away well, but at turn five Norris found himself on the outside. The McLaren driver seemed to open up the wheel just a little too much, prompting him to touch the grass, lose control of his McLaren and from P6, dropped back to P9.

‘Norris bins it on lap 1’;

https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/33419...oor-start.html


F1 2025 Chinese Grand Prix – Sprint Race Results
22nd March 2025
Motorsport Week

Position Driver Team Gap
1 Lewis Hamilton Ferrari
2 Oscar Piastri McLaren 6.889
3 Max Verstappen Red Bull 9.804
4 George Russell Mercedes 11.592
5 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 12.190
6 Yuki Tsunoda Racing Bulls 22.288
7 Andrea Kimi Antonelli Mercedes 23.038
8 Lando Norris McLaren 23.471
9 Lance Stroll Aston Martin 24.916
10 Fernando Alonso Aston Martin 38.218

‘Sprint Race Results’;

https://www.motorsportweek.com/2025/...-race-results/


2025 Chinese GP Sprint: Hamilton defends the lead from Verstappen at the start in Shanghai
Lewis Hamilton keeps the lead at the Sprint start at the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix.
22nd March 2025
Formula One - Official Site (Video)

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/20...62090481359254


Hamilton wins the Sprint, Piastri P2, Verstappen P3, Norris bins it
22nd March 2025
Norberto Mujica
GPblog.com

Lewis Hamilton capitalises on his first success with Ferrari, and wins the Sprint race in China, from Oscar Piastri in P2 and Max Verstappen in P3. As they lined up on the grid, Max Verstappen pointed his car toward Lewis Hamilton’s path, to try and gain the edg on the Briton and contain any potential overtake attempt on his position.

The lights went off, Hamilton had a good reaction and was able to cover off Piastri. Charles Leclerc managed to defend from Russell, and tried to attack Oscar Piastri into Turn 3, as Lando Norris went into Turn 5 very compromised and lost two places as his MCL39 got bent out of shape.

On lap 14, Piastri felt brave enough to have a look on the inside of Verstappen into Turn 1, as the Dutchman defended with everything he could to force3 Piastri to go around the outside. Shortly after Verstappen complained to engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase, that both of his front tyres were dead. Sure enough a couple of laps later, Piastri lined up Verstappen for an overtake into Turn 14, and though the Dutchman didn’t make it easy, the battle between the two was always fair.

‘Lewis Hamilton capitalises’;

https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/33421...s-bins-it.html


Hamilton wins “masterclass of tyre management” in Shanghai sprint race
22nd March 2025
RaceFans

Lewis Hamilton scored his first victory as a Ferrari driver in the sprint race at Shanghai. He was never headed over the 19-lap encounter after leading Max Verstappen away from the grid.

Verstappen held second place for much of the race until Oscar Piastri passed him with four laps to go. As the drivers nursed their medium compound tyres to the finish, Verstappen clearly thought better of trying too hard to defend his position, and Piastri gained the place with little difficulty in the extended DRS zone.

“Masterclass of tyre management”;

https://www.racefans.net/2025/03/22/...i-sprint-race/