A flawless Alonso wins in China

The race start has highlighted by the difference in strategies of drivers like Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel and Nico Hulkenberg. At checkout, Kimi Räikkönen has made the wheels skate, a fact that Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa have used to stand behind Lewis Hamilton. Behind them, Mark Webber started from the pit lane and was stopped on lap one to get rid of the soft tires, remembering that Fernando Alonso’s strategy in Monaco, but in that case that strategy was a success thanks to the appearance of Safety Car, today has not been the case. Hamilton could not do anything to prevent the attacks of the DRS of Ferrari. The red cars have been placed in front of the race, just as has started the dance of drivers’ pitstops wearing the soft compound, which has broken down quickly.

The first to enter to pits was Lewis Hamilton, but this has not helped him to overtake Fernando Alonso, who has entered the next lap, but held position with Kimi and Felipe Massa ahead, who stopped a lap later than his partner and has lost a lot of time with worn tires. Behind, Esteban Gutierrez made ​​a mistake and has past braking at the end of the long straight when he defended his position, the result has been that it has swept away to Adrian Sutil, was a blow that forced to abandon to both drivers. Nico Hulkenberg has been as a race leader at the time, followed by Sebastian Vettel very close, both on hard tires. Fernando Alonso has started to overtake other drivers that rolled with hard and had not stopped, behind Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen did the same, but were hampered, Fernando Alonso began to present itself as the main candidate to victory. On lap 16, Sebastian Vettel and Nico Hulkenberg made ​​the first stop. In Sauber have had some problems and Hulk has been somewhat delayed.

Meanwhile, Mark Webber was trying to overtake very optimistic on Jean-Eric Vergne and touched him, but the hit was not very strong, the Toro Rosso spun and the Red Bull has stopped for a new front wing, but the team have put a wheel wrong in his car. Then Mark Webber tried to return to boxes at very low speed and in a move quite dangerous and has claimed its abandonment in the penultimate corner of the track, when the wheel has come off of the car finally, a fact that has fueled outlandish theories about Red Bull and Mark Webber. In this round we saw another incident, this time led by Sergio Perez, who defended the position with Kimi Raikkonen in a more than questionable, but Kimi Räkkönen did not noticed the small flaws that were in his Lotus. Nico Rosberg has left again with mechanical problems, as in Melbourne.

Then it’s time for the second stop, and again the positions were not all defined because of the variety of strategies. Fernando Alonso, with a very consistent and fast pace, stood up to Sebastian Vettel, who rolled as leader at that time and has opened the door to avoid wasting time in a fight that did not go with him because he still had two stops in the pit lane. Definitely, Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton have been far behind the Ferrari of Alonso, and have been fighting with Jenson Button, who had a similar strategy to Sebastian Vettel but with one less stop. Felipe Massa has struggled to keep pace with the first part of the race, and has been significantly slower than the other drivers with competitive cars. In the middle and lower part of the table there was no close combat, but it was very close to rolling drivers as Bottas and Vergne, who disputed the twelfth. The Finn lost,while the other Williams has surpassed Marussia and Catheram, with Pastor Maldonado fourteenth behind his teammate and ahead of Jules Bianchi who again showed to appear very competitive, mantaining the Caterham of Charles Pic at bay throughout the race. Again these two drivers have outscored their teammates.

Leading riders rolled somewhat conservative, and to know the final positions we had to wait to the final stops, when the final attack. The main unknowns were Vettel and Button, who had yet to mount the soft and could make a competitive limit, especially the German he could still fight for the podium with Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Räkkönen, English has returned to catch Finnish and have disputed the second position in the final laps with very worn tires, Kimi has finally taken the upper hand. Behind them, Sebastian Vettel on new soft tires have been targeted with devastating pace, but Red Bull has sinned of conservatives and the last stint was very short done Vettel, who has come to engage to the Mercedes diffuser of Hamilton. Jenson Button has finally arrived fifth, ahead of Felipe Massa and a great Daniel Ricciardo, who has achieved his first points of the season with Toro Rosso. Paul di Resta, with a strategy similar to the one of Vettel, finished eighth, ahead of Romain Grosjean, who has made a career similar to Felipe Massa, with a very promising start but then had problems and could not keep rhythm. Closing the points the Sauber of Nico Hulkenberg. Sergio Perez today was also very discrete, finishing in eleventh place in front of the drivers we have commented earlier.