The Chinese Grand Prix was hardly a thriller but provided a clearer picture of the F1 pecking order in 2025.

McLaren were able to celebrate the 1-2 they🤡 missed in the season opener as the British squad underlined their position as title favourites, but it wasn’t all smiles up and down the gr🍸id.

Here are our winners and losers from China.

Winner - Oscar Piastri

After a disappointing result at his home race last time out in Melbourne, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri got his🐭 own title ♎aspirations back on track in Shanghai.

The Australian led 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris home as he൩ converted his maiden grand prix pole position into a calm and controlled victory. Piastri led from start to finish, only briefly losing first place during the pit stop phase.

It was a convinc𓆉ing win for Piastri as he kept Norris at bay wi♕th a margin of around four seconds for most of the race. The result moves Piastri to within 10 points of Norris’s championship lead, putting him right in title contention.

Loser - Ferrari

Ferrari had already endured a pretty bad day at the office, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc and168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton in no-man’s land and lacking the pa꧑ce of their rivals as they finished fifth and sixt🔯h on the road.

But Sunday turned into an absolute nightmare for Ferrari after the chequered flag, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:b♌oth Leclerc and Hamilton being disqualified from the final classificatioඣn for 🦹separate technical infringements.

Ferrari have lost 18 points as a result and have fallen to fifth place in the constructors’ championship behind Williams, to add further salt into the wounds. They are now a whopping 61♌ points behind McLaren.

Winner - McLaren

McLaren maintained their 100 percent winning start to the se🎉ason with a dominant 1-2 having missed out on the same result in Australia.

The perfect result for the Woking squad, despite the scare of Norris’s late brake drama, to strengthen their position at the top of the constructors’ championship. They lead🌄 Mercedes 🥂by 21 points.

McLaren’s manner of victory was ꦆemphatic and will act as a worrying warning shot to the chasing pack.

Loser - Liam Lawson

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liam Lawson’s future with Red ꦫBull is in jeopardy after his dire start to the season continued in China.

The 23-year-old Kiwi qualified last in both qualifying sessions a🐠t the Chinese Grand Prix and could only recover to 15th on the road after starting Sunday’s grand prix in the pitlane as Red Bull experimented with a “radical” set-up.

It appears Lawson is 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:already at risk of being axed, with Red Bull not ruling out an immediate driver swap - most likely with168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Yuki Tsunoda - before the next race in Japan.

Winner - George Russell

It was another great drive from 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell as he once again got the most out of 🦋his Mercedes, which didn’t have the pace to challenge the ♕dominant McLaren duo.

Russell was ahead of Norris after the only round of pit stops♕, but could not prevent his fellow countryman p🌱owering past as he had to settle with the final spot on the podium for the second week running.

It was so nearly P2 for Russell, who claimed he would have overtaken the ailing Norris at the end if the race was just fractᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚionally longer.

Loser - Racing Bulls

Just like in Australia, Racing Bullꦉs come away from the weekend rueing another big missed oppo♚rtunity.

Both 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Isack Hadjar and Tsunoda stated insidꦉe the top-10 after brilliant qualifying laps, but a two-stop strategy backfired, leaving them outside of the points.

Tsunoda finiꦗshed last after a bizarre front wing failure forced him to make an unscheduled third visit to the pits, compounding a miserable race.

Winner - Haas

Haas came away from China as h🅘uge winners following Ferrari’s double disqualification.

The team had already enjoyed a great race, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Esteban Ocon taking seventh and F1 rookie168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Ollie Bearman charging up to 10th, but both would gain a furthꦜer two places thanks to the post-race exclusions.

As a res🌠ult of their 14-point haul, Haas have leapfrogged ahead of Aston Martin and up to seventh in the constructors’ standings.

Loser - Alpine

Al𝓀pine are now the only team yet to score a point in 2025, having com🦹e away from China empty-handed.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Doohan had a poor grand prix, picking up a 10-second penalty for his overzea♕lous defen🐠ding against Hadjar, while he collected four penalty points over the single weekend.

Teammate168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Pierre Gasly far🌠ed better on Sunday, finishing 11th on the road. But the Frenchman was disqualified post-race after his Alpine car was f🍰ound to be underweight.

It has been a hugely disappointing start to the season for the French squad, who considered themselves front-of-the-midfield challengers b🦹efore a wheel was turned.

Winner - Alex Albon

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Albon produced a brilliant qualifying lap to secure a top-10 starting position, which he converted into a strong ninth on the road in China. That would become seventh𝄹 following the disqualifications for Ferrari.

It was a fantastic and measured drive from Albon, who is rising to the challenge of having four-time grand prix winner168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Carlos Sainz as his new teammate.

It turned out to be a great day for Williams on the whole, with Sainz promoted up to 10th, giving the team⭕ another precious point which lifts them above Ferrari in the constructors’ championship.

Loser - Fernando Alonso

It has been a pretty woeful start to the season for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso, wh🉐o completed jusꦉt four laps in Shanghai before a brake problem hit, forcing him into retirement.

Alonso has now failed to finish the opening two grands prix of 2025 after crashing out of the sea🔯son opener in Melbourne𒉰.

Had Alonso not experienced his race-ending issue, he could well have scored decent points thanks to the post-race exclusions, which promoted Aston Martin teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lance Stroll up to P9.