Shanghai, 14 April

Scuderia Ferrari won the tenth edition of the Chinese Grand Prix thanks to a fine drive from Fernando Alonso. Felipe Massa came home sixth to add to the team’s Chinese points haul.

Both Ferraris got off the line really well and Fernando and Felipe made up one and two places respectively to go second and third into the first turn. On lap 5, both men got past the leader Lewis Hamilton, to go into the lead. On laps 7 and 8 Fernando and then Felipe switched from Soft to Medium tyres.

Several drivers led the Chinese Grand Prix, thanks to the different strategies in play on the tyre front and after the second stop, which came on lap 28, Alonso went past temporary leader Sebastian Vettel to retake the lead. At the end of lap 41, Alonso made a third stop fitting the final set of Mediums and from then on he controlled the race to the flag. Thanks to this result, Alonso is third in the Drivers’ championship, while Massa is fifth, ten points off Lewis Hamilton.