Formula 1®
DHL Fastest Lap Award: 2016 FORMULA 1 PIRELLI CHINESE GRAND PRIX
Force India driver Nico Hülkenberg lapped the 5.451-km Shanghai International Circuit in 1:39.824 minutes on Lap 48, the fastest of all the 22 drivers, who incidentally, all took the checkered flag. This year's third race of the season was only the sixth time in Formula 1 Grand Prix history that all the drivers who started the race arrived at the finish.
Towards the end of the 56-lap race, several drivers began a thrilling battle to post the fastest lap. The fastest lap kept changing hands between Hülkenberg, Haas driver Romain Grosjean, McLaren star Jenson Button and Toro Rosso youngster Max Verstappen. In the end, Hülkenberg won through by the narrow margin of just 0.099 seconds. Further proof that every detail counts in Formula 1. As always, Great is in the detail.
Three races, three different drivers with the fastest lap of the race. After Daniel Ricciardo at his home race in Australia and Nico Rosberg in Bahrain, it was now Nico Hülkenberg's turn to successfully post the next fastest lap of this season at the Shanghai International Circuit. By the way: If you take the average of the ten fastest laps, championship leader Nico Rosberg is a good three and a half tenths of a second up on Romain Grosjean with a time of 1:40.731 minutes. Hülkenberg is ranked fourth in this category.
F1 now moves on from China to the fourth race weekend of the season, the 2016 FORMULA 1 RUSSIAN GRAND PRIX on the weekend of 29th April to 1st May. For a third time, teams will travel this year to Russia, where racing has taken place at the Sochi Autodrom since 2014. Each of the eleven teams will ship 30-40 tons of cargo to the event, so that 22 drivers can resume the hunt for victories and the 2016 DHL Fastest Lap Award.
Fastest race laps: 2016 FORMULA 1 PIRELLI CHINESE GRAND PRIX
01 Nico Hülkenberg (Force India) 1:39.824 - on Lap 48
02 Romain Grosjean (Haas) 1:39.923 - on Lap 47
03 Jenson Button (McLaren) 1:40.298 - on Lap 46
04 Esteban Gutiérrez (Haas) 1:40.368 - on Lap 45
05 Max Verstappen (Toro Rosso) 1:40.399 - on Lap 41
06 Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) 1:40.418 - on Lap 38
07 Felipe Nasr (Sauber/Ferrari) 1:40.582 - on Lap 42
08 Kimi Räikkönen (Ferrari) 1:40.593 - on Lap 40
09 Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari) 1:40.610 - on Lap 37
10 Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) 1:40.662 - on Lap 32
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