Lewis Hamilton’s first victory as a Ferrari driver in Shanghai Sprint is an early “meaningful” moment in new relationships in the F1 box, according to Sky Sports F1’s Karun Chandhok.
The F1 SPRINT format which takes place at six weekends through the 24-racore campaign and offers additional points for the top-eight-its qualifying session and the 100km short race race, effectively staying away from the main Grand Prix and historical prestige.
The victory of the lights on the Flag of Hamilton at the 19-Jiro Sprint in China on Saturday does not extend his record of 105 competition victories, with the prospect of making this on Sunday a longest shot after he continued to qualify for that Grand Prix 56-Jiro in the fifth after a story of Ferrari.
But Sky Sports F1 Pundit and former driver Chandhok says Triumph Sprint carries a lot of importance in itself in only Hamilton’s second weekend driving for Ferrari, who has seen him overcome the new teammate Charles Leclerc for the first time in all key sessions.
“It’s an important day. Ferrari is playing down, saying it’s just a sprint, it’s only one day, but it’s significant,” said Chandhok Sky Sports News.
“It was Lewis Hamilton in a dry race after a dry qualification when everyone was on the same runway in the same tires, placing it on the poles and winning.
“If bark like a dog and smell like a dog, it’s a dog – it was a race, and he won it.
“It wasn’t a prix Grand, it was a third of the distance, but it seemed in control. It was Lewis Hamilton that we all lost for the last three years. Stronging on the occasion, coming forward, breaking the DRS, metronomically shaking those laps and winning the sprint.”
‘This is what Ferrari has signed it for it’
After celebrating his impressive victory of the Sprint – his first in 19 attempts at Saturday’s race since her 2021 presentation – Hamilton said that the “screaming” criticism of his disappointing weekend of Ferrari in Australia, when he ended up in the rain, hard.
Chandhok added: “I just thought it was a messy race. Despite the fact that he is Lewis Hamilton and probably the biggest of all time, he will take a few days to bed.
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Hamilton was thrilled after winning his first Ferrari race in Sprint around the international Shanghai district
“I thought there were some interesting things that came out of the Ferrari camp (Saturday). One of Lewis himself, saying that in Melbourne he went along with the way Ferrari did things because it was the first weekend and he didn’t want to go there shaking his arms in terms of changing the way they did things.
“But entering this weekend, he didn’t shake his arms, but he said” I want to change some things we do with the car, some of the directions we go with and try to find a sweet place. “
“He spoke about the capture of his competition engineer, Ricciardo Adam, from Monday spending the week preparing himself, taking the car in a sweet place they wanted for a practical session, and they did it.”
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Hamilton led from start to end
And in the early impact that Hamilton already has on F1’s most famous team, Chandhok added: “This is what Ferrari has done by bringing Lewis to the table.
“They have bought that experience and brought over 100 Grand Prix wins and over 100 poles to give them little of a leader, not recreate the wheel, and he is there to deliver the goods on the right track.”
Sky Sports F1 Chinese GP Program Live
Sunday March 23
- 2.40: 00: F1 Academy Race 2
- 5.30 morning: Chinese GP Construction: Grand Prix Sunday*
- 7 morning: Chinese Grand Prix*
- 9:00: Chinese GP reaction: Controlled flag*
- 10:00: TED Notebook*
*Also in the main event of Sky Sports
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