Event statistics following the third race of the 2018 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season, the Heineken Chinese Grand Prix at the 5.451-kilometer Shanghai International Circuit.
Daniel Ricciardo notched his first victory of the season, blasting through the field after his second pit stop and passing Valtteri Bottas on Lap 45 of the 56-lap race, narrowly completing an inside pass on the Finnish driver in Turn 4. He was never headed the rest of the race, besting Bottas, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, who crossed the line fourth but incurred a 10-second penalty after an incident with points leader Sebastian Vettel.
Heineken Chinese Grand Prix
Shanghai International Circuit – Shanghai, China
- Winner (starting position): Daniel Ricciardo (6th)
- Podium: Daniel Ricciardo, Valtteri Bottas, Kimi Raikkonen
- Full Results: Daniel Ricciardo, Valtteri Bottas, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, Nico Hulkenberg, Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel, Carlos Sainz Jr., Kevin Magnussen, Esteban Ocon, Sergio Perez, Stoffel Vandoorne, Lance Stroll, Sergey Sirotkin, Marcus Ericsson, Romain Grosjean, Pierre Gasly, Charles Leclerc, Brendon Hartley
- Laps Completed: 56
- Race Leaders: 4
- Laps Led: Sebastian Vettel (20), Valtteri Bottas (18), Daniel Ricciardo (12), Kimi Raikkonen (6)
- Pole Position: Sebastian Vettel (1 minute, 32.171 seconds)
- Hard Charger: Fernando Alonso (+6; 13th to 7th)
- Fastest Lap: Daniel Ricciardo (1 minute, 35.785 seconds, 204.871 kph; Lap 55)
- Margin of Victory: 8.894 seconds
- Car Count: 20
- Cars Entered: 20
- Cars Running at Finish: 19 (of 20; or 95 percent of the field)
- Drivers to Finish on Lead Lap: 19
- Average Speed: 191.451 kph/118.962 mph
- Lead Changes: 3
- Race Time: 1:35:36.380
- Weather at Start of the Race: 69 degrees Fahrenheit, clear, winds W 2 mph
- Weather at End of the Race: 69 degrees Fahrenheit, clear, winds W 2 mph
Notes of Interest – Race/Weekend Recap
- This is Daniel Ricciardo’s first Formula 1 victory of the season and the sixth of his career. It marks the first race win for the Australian since winning the 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku.
- Ricciardo is the second driver to win a Formula 1 race this season. Sebastian Vettel won the opening two races.
- Ricciardo’s victory came 8.894 seconds over Valtteri Bottas, after passing the Finnish driver on Lap 45. That marks the largest margin of victory in three races this season.
- Ricciardo is the ninth driver to win the Chinese Grand Prix, joining Rubens Barrichello, Fernando Alonso, Michael Schumacher, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button and Nico Rosberg.
- This is the third consecutive season and fourth overall that Ricciardo has won at least once in Formula 1. He won three races in 2014 and once each in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
- Ricciardo is the first Australian to win the Chinese Grand Prix. It marks the first time since the initial Chinese Grand Prix that a driver born outside of Europe has won the Chinese Grand Prix (Rubens Barrichello of Brazil in 2004).
- This is Ricciardo’s first podium of 2018 and the 28th of his career. It is his first podium in seven Chinese Grand Prix. Ricciardo’s last Formula 1 podium came in the 2017 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka. His previous best finish in the Chinese Grand Prix was fourth on three occasions, most recently in 2017. He’s scored points in each of the last six Chinese Grand Prix and completed every lap in seven races at Shanghai.
- Ricciardo led 12 laps of the race, which is more than half of the laps he led during the entire 2017 Formula 1 season (23 laps led in three races). It is the second Chinese Grand Prix that Ricciardo has led; he led two laps in the 2016 race.
- Ricciardo is the youngest driver to win a Formula 1 grand prix this season, at 28 years of age. Sebastian Vettel won his two grand prix at 30 years old.
- Ricciardo won the race from the sixth starting position, the second time he’s won an F1 race from the sixth position. All six of Ricciardo’s victories have come from fourth or lower on the starting grid.
- Ricciardo’s win from the sixth starting position matches the worst starting position for a winner of the Chinese Grand Prix. Michael Schumacher also won the race in 2006 from the sixth starting spot.
- Ricciardo is the first driver to win an F1 grand prix from the sixth starting position since Lewis Hamilton won the 2014 British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Ricciardo was the most recent before that, earning his first career victory from sixth in the Canadian Grand Prix at Montreal a month prior.
- All six of Ricciardo’s victories have come with Red Bull Racing.
- This is the first of Ricciardo’s six victories in which he also set the race’s fastest lap.
- This marked Red Bull’s first victory in the Chinese Grand Prix since Sebastian Vettel won the 2009 edition. Overall, it’s the second victory for the team at Shanghai.
- There were four leaders of the Chinese Grand Prix, higher than the 2.86 average. That boosts the average number of leaders over the 15 Chinese Grand Prix to 2.93.
- This marked only the third time in 15 races that the leader of the most laps in the Chinese Grand Prix did not go on to lead the most laps. Sebastian Vettel, who led the most laps (20), finished eighth.
- Valtteri Bottas finished second for the second consecutive race, his second podium finish of the season and the 24th of his career in 100 races (24 percent finish rate on the podium).
- This is Bottas’s first career podium at Shanghai. His previous best finish was sixth in 2015 (Williams) and 2017 (Mercedes).
- Mercedes has now finished second in three consecutive races in 2018, and is still without a victory. This marks the first time since 2013 that Mercedes hasn’t won any of the first three races on the schedule.
- Kimi Raikkonen finished third, equaling his season-best set in the Australian Grand Prix. It was Raikkonen’s 93rd career podium and sixth podium in the Chinese Grand Prix. His last podium at Shanghai had come in 2013.
- With Bottas and Raikkonen both on the podium, it marked the first time two drivers from Finland shared the podium since the 2017 Heineken Grand Prix of Brazil, the penultimate race of last season.
- Lewis Hamilton finished fourth after starting there. It marked the end of a four-race streak of podiums for Hamilton (last finish off the podium was fourth in the 2017 Grand Prix of Brazil), though it marked a record 28th consecutive points-scoring position for the British driver.
- Hamilton was a 3.0 average finish this season, which leads all drivers.
- Max Verstappen finished a season-best fifth, giving Aston Martin Red Bull Racing two drivers in the top five. It was Verstappen’s second straight top-five finish at China.
- Nico Hulkenberg finished sixth for the second consecutive race, and has finished sixth or seventh in each of the three races this season. It matched Hulkenberg’s best finish in eighth Chinese Grand Prix, as he was also sixth in 2014.
- Fernando Alonso, the 2005 and 2013 Chinese Grand Prix winner, finished seventh for the second consecutive race in 2018. Alonso has finished no worse than seventh this season; he only had one finish of sixth or better in 2017, and five top 10s.
- Polesitter Sebastian Vettel, in his bid for three consecutive victories, finished eighth, after an incident with Max Verstappen late in the race. It was the worst finish for Vettel in the Chinese Grand Prix since 2008, when he finished ninth, though he’s scored points in all 12 of his Formula 1 races at Shanghai.
- Vettel now has 52 career pole positions, including four at Shanghai (2009, 2010, 2011, 2018).
- Carlos Sainz Jr finished a season-best ninth at Shanghai. It was his second points finish of the season. Sainz also recorded his third points finish in four Chinese Grand Prix.
- Kevin Magnussen rounded out the top 10 with his second consecutive points finish and the second top-10 result in four Chinese Grand Prix.
- Sergey Sirotkin finished 15th, tying his career-best Formula 1 finish and the first race he’s completed every lap in F1 competition.
- A total of 10 drivers that finished the race improved on their starting position.
- All 20 drivers were classified in the race, including Brendon Hartley, who dropped out with five laps remaining. It marked the only the eighth race in Formula 1 history that every driver was classified at the end of the race (and second Chinese Grand Prix, joining the 2016 race).
- The fourth round of the 2018 Formula 1 World Championship is the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on April 29 at the Baku City Circuit.
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