Jenson Button crowned a magnificent day for British motor racing by leading home a McLaren one-two as he won an exhilarating Chinese Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton followed Button home as the man from Frome in Somerset did exactly what he did last year – win in Shanghai and lead the Formula One world championship.
It was the first all-British line-up on the first two steps of the podium for 11 years, when Eddie Irvine won in Austria for Ferrari with David Coulthard second in a McLaren. But Button and Hamilton went one better by representing the same team - McLaren.
It was another extraordinary performance from Button. So many wrote him off before the start of the season, expecting him to be pounded into submission by a rampant and aggressive Hamilton.
But behind Button’s grin is a spine of steel, which he showed in abundance in the closing minutes as he struggled with a car determined to shred every bit of rubber on its high-speed wheels with Hamilton closing like a jet fighter going in for the kill. At the chequered flag, they were 50 metres apart to celebrate a victory that stunned Formula One. Times Online
German Nico Rosberg got his second successive third place for Mercedes behind the two Britons with Spain’s Fernando Alonso, who earned a drive-through penalty for a jump start, finishing fourth for Ferrari.
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Sebastian Vettel Beats Mark Webber to Pole Position at Shanghai
Pole-sitter Vettel, who won the last race in Malaysia and here last year for Red Bull, could only manage sixth behind Robert Kubica’s Renault, leaving the Shanghai race still without a repeat winner after seven years. Yahoo! Eurosport
POS DRIVER ENTRANT LAPS TIME/RETIRE 1 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 56 1h46m42.163 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 56 1.53 3 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP 56 9.484 4 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 56 11.869 5 Robert Kubica Renault 56 22.213 6 Sebastian VettelRed Bull-Renault 56 33.31 7 Vitaly Petrov Renault 56 47.6 8 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 56 52.172 9 Felipe Massa Ferrari 56 57.796 10 Michael SchumacherMercedes GP 56 1m01.749 11 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 56 1m02.874 12 Rubens BarrichelloWilliams-Cosworth 56 1m03.665 13 Jaime AlguersuariToro Rosso-Ferrari 56 1m11.416 14 Heikki KovalainenLotus-Cosworth 55 1 Lap 15 Nico Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 55 1 Lap 16 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 54 2 Laps 17 Karun Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 52 4 Laps R Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 26 R Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 8 R Pedro de la RosaBMW Sauber-Ferrari 7 R Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 0 R Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari 0 R Vitantonio LiuzziForce India-Mercedes 0 R Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 0
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