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Double world champion Max Verstappen won Formula One\u2019s first Chinese Grand Prix in five years on Sunday with McLaren\u2019s Lando Norris finishing a surprise second to deny dominant Red Bull the one-two.<\/p>\n

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The crushing victory from pole position at a Shanghai circuit that last hosted a grand prix in 2019 was Verstappen\u2019s fourth in five races in 2024 and came after he also won the season\u2019s first Saturday sprint.
\nMexican team mate Sergio Perez, Verstappen\u2019s closest championship rival but now 25 points behind, completed the podium after a dry race with two safety car periods that compromised his race.
\nFerrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz finished fourth and fifth respectively with Mercedes\u2019s George Russell sixth and Aston Martin\u2019s Fernando Alonso seventh with a bonus point for fastest lap.
\nThe victory was the 57th of Verstappen\u2019s career and Shanghai became the 26th track he has won at.
\n\u201cIt felt amazing. All weekend I think we were incredibly quick. It was just enjoyable to drive,\u201d said the 26-year-old who took the chequered flag 13.773 seconds clear of Norris.
\n\u201cThe car was basically on rails and I could do whatever I wanted to with it.\u201d
\nTeam boss Christian Horner summed up the situation by describing Verstappen, who has won all the races he has finished this year, as a man driving \u201con another planet\u201d.
\nRed Bull are now 44 points clear of Ferrari in the constructors\u2019 standings.
\nNorris ensured China was the season\u2019s first race without one team finishing first and second \u2014 Ferrari having taken the one-two in Australia and Red Bull the rest \u2014 with his 15th career podium and eighth second place.
\n\u201cI just wasn\u2019t expecting today at all,\u201d said the Briton, who started fourth on the grid and was voted Driver of the Day.
\n\u201cI got everything ready to go home early and not be on the podium, so it\u2019s a pleasant surprise.
\n\u201cI made a bet to how far behind the Ferrari we would finish today. I thought 35 seconds and I was very wrong by that. So happy to be wrong with myself, and my own bets.\u201d
\nHis only wrong moves came after the finish when Norris returned to the pit lane rather than parking up alongside Verstappen and Perez on the straight, and later when he picked up the cap for third-placed driver.<\/p>\n

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China\u2019s first and only driver Zhou Guanyu, in his first home race, had the honour of parking behind the Red Bulls and crouched in tears before saluting the crowd. The Sauber driver finished 14th.
\nMcLaren\u2019s Oscar Piastri finished eighth, with Mercedes\u2019s seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton going from 18th on the grid to ninth and Nico Hulkenberg taking the final point for Haas.
\nThe 56-lap race started with the Red Bulls on the front row but Alonso seizing second from Perez as Verstappen disappeared into the distance.
\nThe Mexican took back the place on lap five, with Verstappen already five seconds down the road, and Norris then overtook Alonso on lap seven.
\nNorris took the lead on lap 13 when both Red Bulls pitted, with Verstappen rejoining in fourth place and hitting the front again on lap 19.
\nThe first safety car was deployed, after a brief virtual period, on lap 23 when Sauber\u2019s Valtteri Bottas parked up with a failed engine and marshals struggled to shift the car which was stuck in gear.
\nLeclerc and Norris were able to take advantage by pitting and getting ahead of Perez.
\nThere was then mayhem at the lap 27 re-start, with Aston Martin\u2019s Lance Stroll ploughing into the back of Daniel Ricciardo\u2019s RB, the Australian in turn shunted into compatriot Oscar Piastri\u2019s McLaren.
\nHaas\u2019s Kevin Magnussen and RB\u2019s Yuki Tsunoda also tangled, with the Japanese retiring and the Dane limping back to the pits with a damaged and sparking car.
\nStroll and Magnussen were both given 10-second penalties for causing a collision while Williams\u2019s Logan Sargeant collected the same sanction for a safety car infringement. Ricciardo retired in the pits on lap 34.
\nNorris switched to a one-stop strategy after the safety car period with Perez unable to close the gap after passing Leclerc for third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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