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Lewis Hamilton believes he would have had a close fight with Sebastian Vettel for victory in the Chinese Grand Prix, but for early safety car period.
pit Vettel for second place in a virtual safety car to switch to slick tires, but saw a small advantage to nothing by a car safely in a tour of the resumption of the race with leaders capable of stands for slicks without major penalty, Vettel finds himself fifth on the road and had to fight for second place, when Hamilton had built a lead of 12 seconds.
Despite securing only the third grand slam of his career in pole position, fastest lap, leading every lap and winning the race Hamilton said the race with Ferrari is so true, even if it wasn t fight with Vettel close on right way.
It's been a fantastic weekend and very, very grateful for all the effort that the team has to allow us to be where we are and where I am today, Hamilton said he is very damning when you have a weekend like that, because I'm not just a link in the chain and, when you really think about it, there's thousands of people involved, hundreds and hundreds of people involved in me to be here and we be where we are.
So congratulations to all I hope they're all celebrating back, I hope they're at home feel the spirit, I hope they're feeling the fight because it is on.
With the qualification of the race was great to be able to take this good turn out, he put in an excellent starting position was fantastic; I am so happy with how housing starts will I keep it and then in the race, really just to keep my composure some really tough conditions out there, especially on the then following through once us made the pit stop with the safety car, the speed was very low and is very cold, our temperatures in the tires, they're like they're just not working, they're so cold it was very, very easy make mistakes and I'm just grateful I didn.
And in the end, the final laps of 20 odd we were pounding around as quickly as possible, exchanging lap times, and I think the art that the race is perhaps in the future there will times when we won t have a safety car and won t be this gap of six seconds, he'll be back on the tail of any way excited for it.
And Hamilton admitted that there were moments in the race when he didn t have the ability to respond to the pace of Vettel once the Ferrari moved up to second.
It is, as I said, very, very close and there were times when Sebastian took turns in and it was difficult to even match when ten or 12 laps it was a 6 and 35 I was 8 and 35 was very hard to get where he was then there were other times in the race when I was faster.
Lewis Hamilton took his 54th career victory and first of the season with a controlled drive in a wet dry Chinese Grand Prix.
In a cool, the race started on a wet track after morning rain, but Hamilton led lights to mark as Ferrari and Red Bull scrapped behind him, while teammate Valtteri Bottas suffered a difficult start and dropped on the field due to rotation behind the safety Car after an accident for Antonio Gioviniazzi.
Sebastian Vettel lost during the safety car and dropped to fifth at the start, allowing Hamilton to pull a good gap As winner Australia Grand Prix Vettel rose to second as the race progressed it was too drifted to challenge Hamilton and triple world champion returned June 2 seconds ahead to pull level at the top of the drivers' championship.
Thank you very much everyone, we really worked hard for that ve Hamilton said the team radio after the checkered flag We got to keep pushing, without fail.
Max Verstappen staged an impressive recovery from 16th on the grid to take third place, holding his teammate Daniel Ricciardo on the line having made rapid progress at the beginning of Kimi Raikkonen and Bottas race were fifth and sixth, with four cars covered by less than four seconds at the flag.
Carlos Sainz was seventh and the last car on the lead lap after playing on slick tires early in the race and dropped to the back while Kevin Magnussen rose to eighth place to score his first points Haas ahead of the Force India pair of Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon.
With the stop rain an hour before the race, the track began to dry and the two Mercedes drivers Ricciardo has come running to the grid on slicks for testing conditions The track was still too wet, however, with only Sainz game supersofts 11 place the Toro Rosso driver dropped to the rear of the field before turn 1 such was the lack of grip and ran off at the first corner, but soon enjoy safety car period.
Hamilton took with Vettel held off Bottas in round 1, with the slow Ferrari line despite being too left its grid location an error for which the stewards decided not to punish German with Raikkonen slotting into fourth place ahead of Ricciardo, there was a touch further back than Lance Stroll didn t leave enough room for Perez at turn 10 and Williams was kicked into the gravel, bringing the virtual safety car at the end of first round.
A number of drivers then opted for slick tires, but Vettel was the only executive to do and fell to fifth place on the resumption of the race, Giovinazzi lost control on the very wet patch of track that remained just before the finish caused by the overhang of the buildings of the complex line of stands and hit the pit wall, bringing out the safety car on lap 4.
With debris on the pit straight, all cars were running in the pit lane and the leaders were then arrested for slick Mercedes Superimposed its cars, but Bottas dropped the jack before before his left front tire was and then had place as the train came through, dropping to fifth behind the Red Bulls and Raikkonen, but ahead of Vettel.
Sainz spun at Turn 2 behind the safety car and hit the wall, but was able to continue before Bottas then spun on the final lap before the safety car restart as he warmed his tires, losing control again on grass as drivers struggled for tire temperature on a cold day.
The error promoted Vettel in fifth, but the action was ahead of him as Verstappen dived past Raikkonen braking Turn 6 on lap eight Leaving after his teammate Ricciardo, Verstappen finally got past the same corner three laps later Red Bulls kept Hamilton within two seconds early.
Ricciardo pace was slower at the beginning and then held the Ferraris, with Hamilton starting to ease far forward as the track dried Vettel still had to wait until lap 20 to pass his teammate in Turn 6, as he was then engaged in a thrilling battle with Ricciardo two laps later and had to outbrake former teammate outside the same corner the pair rubbed wheels at the exit Vettel took third place, and halfway, he took over as the second Verstappen shut and ran wide at the hairpin Turn 14.
Lead Hamilton was more than 12 seconds at the time, and Vettel started to close the gap, but the race leader had the pace to maintain stable gap to eight seconds to ensure victory.
Verstappen pit after his mistake before Vettel and finally all the leaders have followed suit, leaving him in third place Raikkonen rose to second Ferrari prevented more angry Finn and drop to fifth place where he finally had to contain Bottas recovery.
Progress was slow at first to Bottas, but he had the pace to go Magnussen and Sainz taking sixth in a race where there was a lot of overtaking teammate Sainz Daniil Kvyat had to pull the top 10 on lap 18, then Fernando Alonso was sure of the points for McLaren before he damaged his defense against compatriot driveshaft Spanish and was forced to stop, joining teammate Stoffel Vandoorne in the Belgian garage has suffered a fuel problem.
Romain Grosjean finished 11th after starting on the back line, but released one of the movements of the race when he drove out of trouble Felipe Massa at Turn 1 at the end of Massa ended up 14th behind the two Renaults who had both towers and just before Marcus Ericsson.
Action Express Racing Dane Cameron emerged unscathed from the first major accident for new IMSA Daytona Prototype Internationals His Cadillac DP i-V-based Dallara R slammed the bend outlet wall 8 with enough force to hit the concrete barriers back after turning off the entrance wall corner, flew across borders, and met an immediate end.
I am physically fine, at least, the defending champion WeatherTech Sportscar Championship Prototype said RACER just clipped the inside wall You must be inch perfect on a street course and I was leaving an inch, I'm just disappointed to so much work for boys is the first time I've done something like this in 10 years.
Cameron wasn t the first driver to be involved in an accident since the formula DP i debuted at Daytona in January, but the speed and severity of the impact certainly seemed to be the worst anyone has seen so far .
It is too early to say how the car is at this stage, and we probably won t know the extent until the car is back in the shop in North Carolina, he said, but I know I have to thank Dallara and Cadillac and all my mechanics, because it was a great success and the car and I went absorbed They deserve a lot of credit.
AXR team manager Gary Nelson won t know if the impact was hard enough to require changing the tank of carbon fiber before the race May 7 at Circuit of the Americas.
I thought this place pretty well, he said it was a blow, but we're just sorting through it is to do a little investigating before you can tell if the tub is damaged or not.
Nelson, who led AXR three consecutive championships IMSA Prototype, offered nothing but support for Cameron after his rare error.
I was never a problem when a driver tries so hard and something goes wrong, he says that I have a problem when someone simply follow someone, and we need to have a conversation that we raise in team and fall as a team more points no fingers We will get reassembled and go for victories.
It was an unforgettable weekend for the Cameron family The event opened with experience brake problems No. 90 Visit Florida Multimatic Racing Riley Mk 30 WEC LMP2 being withdrawn after Renger van der Zande and crashed in Turn 1 No. 90, designed by the father of Ricky Dane Cameron was duly withdrawn after the accident for damage to the bath was found by the team VR with the possibility of another bathtub change on the horizon, Camerons seek to rebound when IMSA reaches COTA.
The Wayne Taylor Racing Cadillac being driven by Long Beach and won his third consecutive win of the year, but the victory was assured in the final minutes as a thrilling battle with Nissan came down to the wire Corvette Racing GT Le Mans honors after a crazy last lap, last corner incident stole the head of a victory, and the Riley Motorsports WeatherTech Racing team Mercedes-AMG took command of the GT Daytona to score his first win of 2017.
A steady stream of neutralization jumble the field during the 100 minutes inspired event as many teams of five yellow to try alternative strategies, and in the last race to the checkered flag, Jordan Taylor in the No. 10 WTR DPi Cadillac V-R is quick flight # 2 Tequila Patron ESM Nissan Onroak DP i driven by Ryan Dalziel.
With the Scot absolutely flying in the twin-turbo V6 Nissan, Taylor had no response in clean air that the ESM driver left the 6 Cadillac V8-powered 2-liter in its wake the exit of corners Dalziel has established a new record race lap while moving the overlook almost two seconds, but the gap was quickly erased when traffic began to slow its progression as the clock counts down to the five-minute mark, Taylor before bottling face Dalziel and burst entering the curve 1 shows the video below.
From a distance apparently impossible, the R black # 10 DPi-V swung right and executed through a bold braking and took the lead in from the long way around Dalziel Watch of the pit lane, the brother of Jordan Ricky looked with astonishment the team completed a clean sweep of 37 hours and 40 minutes held by IMSA race in 2017.
I still can not believe it, says Ricky, who got the pole position and returned to Jordan after 55 minutes of running which was amazing, I saw the car was there and ESM Dane was so fast and things weren t go our way Jordan has led to all these movements incredibly no matter what happens the car was running flawlessly, our boys were great in the pits and the strategy was perfect.
Taylor Dalziel second place, and third place No. 55 Mazda RT24-P driven by Jonathan Bomarito IMSA gave his first podium of the new international era Daytona Prototype as a model for each of the three manufacturers DP i was represented on the podium.
All around, it's a good result, Dalziel said that if we are thinking in this weekend, we were going to lead laps, be competitive and finish second, we would have been delighted to have completed so many laps, how we were strong, and just ruined by cars bathed drive like morons is frustrating we did everything we could do the car was excellent and the strategy was perfect, I feel disappointed, but we'll take second.
You must be so flexible with the racing environment you can see the race, he said there were a lot of yellow, so you really had to stay own risk vs. reward Do not want to lose the car you but you can not take a chance some are likely today and you saw their car in the wall good day for the team, SpeedSource, and a first podium for the new Mazda RT24-P.
DP i The three drivers had the chance to have crossed the finish line under the checkered flag before the second block of the race track at the hairpin above changed the outcome of the GT race Le Mans a questionable move on the last lap by 3GT Lexus driver Robert Alon two additional cars a GT Daytona Michael Shank Racing Acura and BMW Turner off the hairpin where the arrested trio nose first against the barrier.
The next car on the stage happened to be the leaders of GTLM like pole sitting No. 3 Corvette Racing C7 R Antonio Garcia, the second sister Corvette of Tommy Milner and Ryan Briscoe third Ford GT Chip Ganassi Racing were left behind find a way through the blockage Unfortunately for Garcia, the choice to widen out the bad and, with GTD cars preventing its way, Milner waited a moment for the Spaniard to find a solution without end the deadlock, Garcia was sat and watched Milner made a right disc using the only available opening behind GTD cars and sped to victory Briscoe after the tail of the Corvette, followed the # 4 R C7 to take second and Kévin Estre finished the first three his No. 912 Porsche 911 GT team.
Garcia, within walking distance of the finish line, was left to settle for a fifth time unrepresentative cars GTD has been erased.
What a strange finish to an incredible race, said Milner, who lost the race last year when his car was spun in the same hairpin and dropped the run command in the same way that has been treated Garcia in some ways, I had the experience already with a blocked hairpin; I thought I knew where to go and thought the race was over and done with at the time the last time I went outside and it was blocked, so I went inside, I think I'm a better chess player today.
Mercedes-AMG has provided the three brands that have won Prototype Cadillac, Corvette and GTLM GT Daytona in Sebring were repeated in Long Beach as the No. 50 Motorsports Riley WeatherTech input Racing won with Gunnar Jeannette and Cooper MacNeil behind the wheel.
Their victory came amid many mistakes throughout GTD, but other than being hit by the No. 5 Action Express Racing Cadillac driven by Christian Fittipaldi, who failed to clear MacNeil by going to outside in the tight 9, rapid no 50 was not going to be denied after rolling the dice with a one-stop strategy.
It feels really good, said MacNeil, whose car took the lead on lap 29 and maintained until the finish tower 63 We had a little luck on our side we have played a good strategy and everything met and had two lucky yellow who got us to the end; we should stop without them.
The Grand Prix car Bubba Burger Sports opened in a mess like Risi Competizione Toni Vilander spun Ed Brown in the No. 22 Nissan DPi exiting Turn 5 With Brown's car stalled and forth between the outlet wall and Ferrari 488 of Vilander, the accident was expanded with Joey Hand willing, the Ford GT was kicked in the back by a Corvette Vilander.
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Hand eventually continue but Vilander and Brown were recorded as the first and second race retirements more yellow and spins continue until the race wound up 65 minutes when Fittipaldi crashed and the team of AXR erred by changing drivers during what has been classified as an emergency stop by the No. 5 Cadillac penalty that followed one stop 60 seconds relegate the car to seventh in class 29th overall at the finish.
Fifteen minutes later, Dirk Werner in the No. 911 Porsche spun No. 66 Ford Dirk Muller in the hairpin leading the race No. 10 WTR Cadillac through before Muller moved forward and all but stopped the second Place No. 55 Mazda with half -dozen other cars they expected the damaged Ford to end a multi-point turn and pull away.
Mazda was executed 2-3 behind the WTR Cadillac and looked primed to win a double podium until the No. 70 pitted and was released without the right rear wheel properly attached to the car well spotted by IMSA officials stopped the car to leave, the No. 70 was postponed and SpeedSource team installed the wheel nut car would finish sixth in class and 21st overall.
The drama had not been completed for AXR, the California nightmare compounded when Dane Cameron suffered the biggest crash of the weekend with the No. 31 Cadillac Chasing WTR car in Turn 8, Cameron tried to bypass the and lost the front edges of his DPi- VR after cutting the inner wall, which launched the Dallara car built in hard concrete barriers with the front left corner.
The impact was strong enough to move the barriers back, and the back left corner slamming into the wall, so the Cadillac finished on site Cameron was unhurt in the incident.
Cameron took to Twitter to say he was OK after the accident.
Disappointed to make a big mistake like that, but I m ok feel so bad for ericcurran31 WhelenEng AX_Racing and my guys we'll be back.
Before the exchange head hands GTLM race at the hairpin on the last lap, BMW Team RLL was heart broken at 11 minutes with Martin Tomczyk win in the No. 24 BMW M6, but the German pulled the right turn input 8 as a temporary loss of power the cost of the car and a tour promoted the unfortunate Corvette # 3 first.
Last month Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring was slowed by seven yellow for 720 minutes of running, which made five warnings in Long Beach duel 100 minutes excessive fantastic races took place between breaks of activity and a -month break until the next race at the Circuit of the Americas, teams will have more than enough time to make repairs after the brawl in southern California.
The Porsche GT team finished repairs of No. 911 RSR in time to participate in 100 minutes of today IMSA championship WeatherTech SportsCar race at Long Beach.
French factory pilot Patrick Pilet clouted the Turn 9 wall on the left rear of his Porsche exiting the corner, and despite the impact of local search to the wheel suspension and a complete change of mechanical components to rear of the car was necessary.
The team worked to 1m 30 is to replace the subframe, most related items that attach to the subframe, and the engine and the gearbox as a precaution when the impact shifted the sub-frame to the right of the car.
The car took place really impact, head of the team said Morgan Brady RACER Most of the damage was just bolted components Our guys did a great job all get fixed last night and we're ready to go .
Pilet and his teammate Dirk Werner will start the race from 34th on the grid last field for the Bubba Burger Sports Car Grand Prix of Long Beach, which starts at 1 p m PT.
As winner of the class defense in Long Beach, the steep entry No. 911 face chance to repeat the feat with up travel for the shortest race of the year IMSA's sister No. 912 Porsche 911 RSR driven by Kevin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor will roll away from fourth place on the grid Mans GT.
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