{"id":1926,"date":"2016-04-17T17:54:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T17:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/f1vault.co.uk\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2016-04-17T17:54:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T17:54:01","slug":"notebook-chinese-grand-prix-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/notebook-chinese-grand-prix-review\/","title":{"rendered":"NOTEBOOK \u2013 Chinese Grand Prix \u2013 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Rosberg took his fifth successive victory in the Chinese Grand Prix. The world championship leader didn\u2019t glide through he worked hard to fight after he was jumped by Red Bull this was a shock and was after his team-mate hit the Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p><em>The start<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Riccardo actually made the better get away to jump Rosberg into turn one and then Kimi Raikkonen tried to pass Rosberg into turn one. Raikkonen got ahead of Sebastian Vettel who clipped the rear of his team-mate sending him wide of track<\/p>\n<p>The Sauber reacted so hit Lewis Hamilton which damaged his front wing sending him wide and his front wing got trapped under his cars. This is no more than a racing incident.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel apologised over team radio saying \u201cMassive apologies to the team. But surely I didn\u2019t do it on purpose. I\u2019m really sorry for Kimi. There was nothing I could do, Kvyat came like a torpedo and I had to react.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton made a good recovery but he needs to start delivering now some good results he admitted when speaking to BBC News \u201cdidn&#8217;t feel the dark cloud I have had in the past over me. We will get up and try harder next time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Red Bull<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Red Bull is looking much better than over the last two years they could be part of the top four this season. They are in a good place and so are Renault this season. Its hard to think last year we were on the verge of a break down between them and Renault.<\/p>\n<p>They have a much better package and maybe were playing down expectations but they could be in the fight between Force India, Williams and there sister team Toro Rosso for third to fifth in the championship.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rise from defeat<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the surprises over the last six races has been the rise of Rosberg he has no broken a record standing since the 1960\u2019s of most races won without a world title. If he does become world champion it would be twenty years exactly since Damon Hill\u2019s title when he was the first to be a son of a world champion to become world champion.<\/p>\n<p>We all remember Murray Walker\u2019s peace of commentary \u201cand I got to stop I have a lump in my throat.\u201d Will we be saying the same twenty years later.<\/p>\n<p><em>See you in Sochi<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The next round in recent years has been dominated by one man Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes. Mercedes will want to take a fifth back to back victory in Russia the circuit once again will be the fight between the Mercedes and Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>The circuit plays to Mercedes but there will want both cars in top form.<\/p>\n<p><em>The data <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/f1vault.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-04-17.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1927\" src=\"https:\/\/f1vault.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/2016-04-17-300x169.png\" alt=\"Race weekend 2015 vs 2016 \" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/f1vault.co.uk\/chinese-gp-result\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Race Result<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/f1vault.co.uk\/chinese-gp-rosbergs-charge-continues-after-another-dramatic-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CHINESE GP\u00a0&#8211; Rosbergs charge continues after another dramatic race<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/f1vault.co.uk\/notebook-chinese-qualifying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NOTEBOOK &#8211; Chinese Quaiflying<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/f1vault.co.uk\/chinese-gp-qualifying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Qualifying Result<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/f1vault.co.uk\/chinese-gp-rosberg-takes-pole-in-a-tricky-and-heavily-interrupted-qualifying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CHINESE GP \u2013 Rosberg takes pole in a tricky and heavily interrupted qualifying<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/f1vault.co.uk\/notebook-friday-shanghai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NOTEBOOK \u2013 Chinese Practice<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/f1vault.co.uk\/chinese-gp-raikkonen-fastest-but-mercedes-look-good-on-long-runs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CHINESE GP \u2013 Raikkonen fastest but Mercedes look good on long runs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/f1vault.co.uk\/chinese-gp-rosberg-fastest-in-an-incident-packed-practice-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CHINESE GP \u2013 Rosberg fastest in an incident packed practice one<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/f1vault.co.uk\/preview-chinese-grand-prix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Preview \u2013 Chinese Grand Prix<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nico Rosberg took his fifth successive victory in the Chinese Grand Prix. The world championship leader didn\u2019t glide through he worked hard to fight after he was jumped by Red Bull this was a shock and was after his team-mate hit the Ferrari. The start Daniel Riccardo actually made the better get away to jump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-this-grand-prix"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}