\n<\/p>\n
Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint.<\/p>\n
Mercedes’ Hamilton started alongside pole-sitter Norris on the front row at the Shanghai International Circuit but got a better launch to pull alongside the McLaren as they approached the first corner.<\/p>\n
Hamilton, on the inside line, was the clear favourite to hold the lead at that point, but Norris refused to yield before running wide and dropping to seventh.<\/p>\n
The seven-time world champion, who finished second behind Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, was asked in the post-race press conference whether he had “hung Norris out to dry”.<\/p>\n
He replied: “I obviously got a great start. I was on the inside line. He tried to hold the outside line and we were both just pushing to the maximum.<\/p>\n
Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Lewis Hamilton defends his opening lap battle for first position with Lando Norris in the Sprint race at the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“I used everything to try to hold position and eventually I think he just ended up on the dirty bit on the outside and then lost it.<\/p>\n“There’s a point when you go a bit too far, then there’s no grip out there and I think that’s what he eventually found.<\/p>\n“In that scenario, he should have just conceded and just parked up behind me. He probably would have the pace to overtake me because the McLaren is very quick. I know he lost a lot of ground there, but that’s racing.”<\/p>\nRosberg: Big mistake by Norris<\/h3>\nSky Sports F1’s<\/em> Nico Rosberg said Norris had made a “big mistake” by going off track at Turn 1, with the Brit eventually finishing sixth.<\/p>\n“It was quite a big mistake, which hurts as a driver because you are on pole position and favourite to get the win,” 2016 world champion Rosberg said. “Then you make a mistake at Turn 1 and fly off the track and are sixth after that.<\/p>\n“That’s very, very painful and will be tough for him to stomach, so hopefully he can get over it quickly and go back into qualifying mode.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n The best of the action from a dramatic Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nNorris, who will drive in his 109th grand prix on Sunday, remains without an F1 victory.<\/p>\nThe 24-year-old has come close to winning on multiple occasions, but he has lost out on several opportunities to at least challenge for victory in recent times due to errors.<\/p>\n“He lost the opportunity to win the race, although it would have been difficult against Verstappen,” Rosberg added.<\/p>\n“You’ve got to say Lando does make one or two mistakes sometimes.<\/p>\n“That’s exactly where you need that first win to give you that one per cent more self-confidence or self-belief. But there are one or two mistakes too many.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Lando Norris said he had ‘no chance’ of victory in the Sprint and the McLaren’s race pace was ‘shocking’ after going backward after his Sprint pole.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nA frustrated Norris apologised to his team over radio at the end of the race, but said that McLaren’s “shocking” race pace meant he had “no chance” of victory.<\/p>\n“Maybe we could have been one or two positions higher but that was it,” Norris told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “The Mercedes had very good pace and George was catching us quickly.<\/p>\n“Lewis had good pace as well and even the Red Bulls and Ferraris. I was managing to survive just because of the DRS. If I didn’t have DRS, I was long gone behind all of them.<\/p>\n“Our race pace was pretty shocking which we kind of expected just with how the track is and the limitations on the car, so nothing new.”<\/p>\nLeclerc: Sainz over the limit in Ferrari battle<\/h3>\nThere was further drama to come in Shanghai as a four-way battle for third reached its conclusion in the closing stages of the 19-lap race.<\/p>\nAfter being overtaken by Verstappen on lap seven, Fernando Alonso had Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz on his tail, with Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc quickly forming a DRS train behind.<\/p>\nAlonso showed off his trademark defensive skills to keep Sainz at bay, but finally came unstuck on the third-to-last lap as the in-form Ferrari driver pulled off a smart move to get ahead.<\/p>\nHowever, Alonso refused to accept the loss of position and dived up Sainz’s inside a few corners later, with the pair making contact that would force the Aston Martin driver out of the race and push the Ferrari off track.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Intense battle ensures for third place between Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc in the Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWhile Perez eased into third, Sainz rejoined the track just in front of Leclerc, and was then guilty of some slightly overzealous defence of his own against his Ferrari team-mate.<\/p>\nThe pair made contact as Sainz slid into Leclerc and pushed him off track, before the Monegasque eventually got past to claim fourth on the following lap.<\/p>\nAsked whether Sainz had “crossed a line” with his driving, Leclerc told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “I think so. But, to be honest, I have crossed the line also myself in the past, and when this happens we normally have a discussion, we clear the air.<\/p>\n“We went through that in the past already and it went really well, so I have no worries that it will be the case also this weekend.<\/p>\n“But today he went a bit over the limit. I mean a contact between us two, being in a different race situation because I had saved quite a bit the tyres, I had a good pace at the end. It’s a bit of a shame that we lost that gap to Perez and couldn’t go and take him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Lewis Hamilton defends his opening lap battle for first position with Lando Norris in the Sprint race at the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“I used everything to try to hold position and eventually I think he just ended up on the dirty bit on the outside and then lost it.<\/p>\n“There’s a point when you go a bit too far, then there’s no grip out there and I think that’s what he eventually found.<\/p>\n“In that scenario, he should have just conceded and just parked up behind me. He probably would have the pace to overtake me because the McLaren is very quick. I know he lost a lot of ground there, but that’s racing.”<\/p>\nRosberg: Big mistake by Norris<\/h3>\nSky Sports F1’s<\/em> Nico Rosberg said Norris had made a “big mistake” by going off track at Turn 1, with the Brit eventually finishing sixth.<\/p>\n“It was quite a big mistake, which hurts as a driver because you are on pole position and favourite to get the win,” 2016 world champion Rosberg said. “Then you make a mistake at Turn 1 and fly off the track and are sixth after that.<\/p>\n“That’s very, very painful and will be tough for him to stomach, so hopefully he can get over it quickly and go back into qualifying mode.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n The best of the action from a dramatic Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nNorris, who will drive in his 109th grand prix on Sunday, remains without an F1 victory.<\/p>\nThe 24-year-old has come close to winning on multiple occasions, but he has lost out on several opportunities to at least challenge for victory in recent times due to errors.<\/p>\n“He lost the opportunity to win the race, although it would have been difficult against Verstappen,” Rosberg added.<\/p>\n“You’ve got to say Lando does make one or two mistakes sometimes.<\/p>\n“That’s exactly where you need that first win to give you that one per cent more self-confidence or self-belief. But there are one or two mistakes too many.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Lando Norris said he had ‘no chance’ of victory in the Sprint and the McLaren’s race pace was ‘shocking’ after going backward after his Sprint pole.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nA frustrated Norris apologised to his team over radio at the end of the race, but said that McLaren’s “shocking” race pace meant he had “no chance” of victory.<\/p>\n“Maybe we could have been one or two positions higher but that was it,” Norris told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “The Mercedes had very good pace and George was catching us quickly.<\/p>\n“Lewis had good pace as well and even the Red Bulls and Ferraris. I was managing to survive just because of the DRS. If I didn’t have DRS, I was long gone behind all of them.<\/p>\n“Our race pace was pretty shocking which we kind of expected just with how the track is and the limitations on the car, so nothing new.”<\/p>\nLeclerc: Sainz over the limit in Ferrari battle<\/h3>\nThere was further drama to come in Shanghai as a four-way battle for third reached its conclusion in the closing stages of the 19-lap race.<\/p>\nAfter being overtaken by Verstappen on lap seven, Fernando Alonso had Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz on his tail, with Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc quickly forming a DRS train behind.<\/p>\nAlonso showed off his trademark defensive skills to keep Sainz at bay, but finally came unstuck on the third-to-last lap as the in-form Ferrari driver pulled off a smart move to get ahead.<\/p>\nHowever, Alonso refused to accept the loss of position and dived up Sainz’s inside a few corners later, with the pair making contact that would force the Aston Martin driver out of the race and push the Ferrari off track.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Intense battle ensures for third place between Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc in the Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWhile Perez eased into third, Sainz rejoined the track just in front of Leclerc, and was then guilty of some slightly overzealous defence of his own against his Ferrari team-mate.<\/p>\nThe pair made contact as Sainz slid into Leclerc and pushed him off track, before the Monegasque eventually got past to claim fourth on the following lap.<\/p>\nAsked whether Sainz had “crossed a line” with his driving, Leclerc told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “I think so. But, to be honest, I have crossed the line also myself in the past, and when this happens we normally have a discussion, we clear the air.<\/p>\n“We went through that in the past already and it went really well, so I have no worries that it will be the case also this weekend.<\/p>\n“But today he went a bit over the limit. I mean a contact between us two, being in a different race situation because I had saved quite a bit the tyres, I had a good pace at the end. It’s a bit of a shame that we lost that gap to Perez and couldn’t go and take him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/span><\/p>\n
\n <\/div>\n Lewis Hamilton defends his opening lap battle for first position with Lando Norris in the Sprint race at the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“I used everything to try to hold position and eventually I think he just ended up on the dirty bit on the outside and then lost it.<\/p>\n“There’s a point when you go a bit too far, then there’s no grip out there and I think that’s what he eventually found.<\/p>\n“In that scenario, he should have just conceded and just parked up behind me. He probably would have the pace to overtake me because the McLaren is very quick. I know he lost a lot of ground there, but that’s racing.”<\/p>\nRosberg: Big mistake by Norris<\/h3>\nSky Sports F1’s<\/em> Nico Rosberg said Norris had made a “big mistake” by going off track at Turn 1, with the Brit eventually finishing sixth.<\/p>\n“It was quite a big mistake, which hurts as a driver because you are on pole position and favourite to get the win,” 2016 world champion Rosberg said. “Then you make a mistake at Turn 1 and fly off the track and are sixth after that.<\/p>\n“That’s very, very painful and will be tough for him to stomach, so hopefully he can get over it quickly and go back into qualifying mode.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n The best of the action from a dramatic Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nNorris, who will drive in his 109th grand prix on Sunday, remains without an F1 victory.<\/p>\nThe 24-year-old has come close to winning on multiple occasions, but he has lost out on several opportunities to at least challenge for victory in recent times due to errors.<\/p>\n“He lost the opportunity to win the race, although it would have been difficult against Verstappen,” Rosberg added.<\/p>\n“You’ve got to say Lando does make one or two mistakes sometimes.<\/p>\n“That’s exactly where you need that first win to give you that one per cent more self-confidence or self-belief. But there are one or two mistakes too many.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Lando Norris said he had ‘no chance’ of victory in the Sprint and the McLaren’s race pace was ‘shocking’ after going backward after his Sprint pole.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nA frustrated Norris apologised to his team over radio at the end of the race, but said that McLaren’s “shocking” race pace meant he had “no chance” of victory.<\/p>\n“Maybe we could have been one or two positions higher but that was it,” Norris told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “The Mercedes had very good pace and George was catching us quickly.<\/p>\n“Lewis had good pace as well and even the Red Bulls and Ferraris. I was managing to survive just because of the DRS. If I didn’t have DRS, I was long gone behind all of them.<\/p>\n“Our race pace was pretty shocking which we kind of expected just with how the track is and the limitations on the car, so nothing new.”<\/p>\nLeclerc: Sainz over the limit in Ferrari battle<\/h3>\nThere was further drama to come in Shanghai as a four-way battle for third reached its conclusion in the closing stages of the 19-lap race.<\/p>\nAfter being overtaken by Verstappen on lap seven, Fernando Alonso had Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz on his tail, with Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc quickly forming a DRS train behind.<\/p>\nAlonso showed off his trademark defensive skills to keep Sainz at bay, but finally came unstuck on the third-to-last lap as the in-form Ferrari driver pulled off a smart move to get ahead.<\/p>\nHowever, Alonso refused to accept the loss of position and dived up Sainz’s inside a few corners later, with the pair making contact that would force the Aston Martin driver out of the race and push the Ferrari off track.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Intense battle ensures for third place between Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc in the Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWhile Perez eased into third, Sainz rejoined the track just in front of Leclerc, and was then guilty of some slightly overzealous defence of his own against his Ferrari team-mate.<\/p>\nThe pair made contact as Sainz slid into Leclerc and pushed him off track, before the Monegasque eventually got past to claim fourth on the following lap.<\/p>\nAsked whether Sainz had “crossed a line” with his driving, Leclerc told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “I think so. But, to be honest, I have crossed the line also myself in the past, and when this happens we normally have a discussion, we clear the air.<\/p>\n“We went through that in the past already and it went really well, so I have no worries that it will be the case also this weekend.<\/p>\n“But today he went a bit over the limit. I mean a contact between us two, being in a different race situation because I had saved quite a bit the tyres, I had a good pace at the end. It’s a bit of a shame that we lost that gap to Perez and couldn’t go and take him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Lewis Hamilton defends his opening lap battle for first position with Lando Norris in the Sprint race at the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n“I used everything to try to hold position and eventually I think he just ended up on the dirty bit on the outside and then lost it.<\/p>\n“There’s a point when you go a bit too far, then there’s no grip out there and I think that’s what he eventually found.<\/p>\n“In that scenario, he should have just conceded and just parked up behind me. He probably would have the pace to overtake me because the McLaren is very quick. I know he lost a lot of ground there, but that’s racing.”<\/p>\nRosberg: Big mistake by Norris<\/h3>\nSky Sports F1’s<\/em> Nico Rosberg said Norris had made a “big mistake” by going off track at Turn 1, with the Brit eventually finishing sixth.<\/p>\n“It was quite a big mistake, which hurts as a driver because you are on pole position and favourite to get the win,” 2016 world champion Rosberg said. “Then you make a mistake at Turn 1 and fly off the track and are sixth after that.<\/p>\n“That’s very, very painful and will be tough for him to stomach, so hopefully he can get over it quickly and go back into qualifying mode.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n The best of the action from a dramatic Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nNorris, who will drive in his 109th grand prix on Sunday, remains without an F1 victory.<\/p>\nThe 24-year-old has come close to winning on multiple occasions, but he has lost out on several opportunities to at least challenge for victory in recent times due to errors.<\/p>\n“He lost the opportunity to win the race, although it would have been difficult against Verstappen,” Rosberg added.<\/p>\n“You’ve got to say Lando does make one or two mistakes sometimes.<\/p>\n“That’s exactly where you need that first win to give you that one per cent more self-confidence or self-belief. But there are one or two mistakes too many.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Lando Norris said he had ‘no chance’ of victory in the Sprint and the McLaren’s race pace was ‘shocking’ after going backward after his Sprint pole.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nA frustrated Norris apologised to his team over radio at the end of the race, but said that McLaren’s “shocking” race pace meant he had “no chance” of victory.<\/p>\n“Maybe we could have been one or two positions higher but that was it,” Norris told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “The Mercedes had very good pace and George was catching us quickly.<\/p>\n“Lewis had good pace as well and even the Red Bulls and Ferraris. I was managing to survive just because of the DRS. If I didn’t have DRS, I was long gone behind all of them.<\/p>\n“Our race pace was pretty shocking which we kind of expected just with how the track is and the limitations on the car, so nothing new.”<\/p>\nLeclerc: Sainz over the limit in Ferrari battle<\/h3>\nThere was further drama to come in Shanghai as a four-way battle for third reached its conclusion in the closing stages of the 19-lap race.<\/p>\nAfter being overtaken by Verstappen on lap seven, Fernando Alonso had Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz on his tail, with Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc quickly forming a DRS train behind.<\/p>\nAlonso showed off his trademark defensive skills to keep Sainz at bay, but finally came unstuck on the third-to-last lap as the in-form Ferrari driver pulled off a smart move to get ahead.<\/p>\nHowever, Alonso refused to accept the loss of position and dived up Sainz’s inside a few corners later, with the pair making contact that would force the Aston Martin driver out of the race and push the Ferrari off track.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Intense battle ensures for third place between Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc in the Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWhile Perez eased into third, Sainz rejoined the track just in front of Leclerc, and was then guilty of some slightly overzealous defence of his own against his Ferrari team-mate.<\/p>\nThe pair made contact as Sainz slid into Leclerc and pushed him off track, before the Monegasque eventually got past to claim fourth on the following lap.<\/p>\nAsked whether Sainz had “crossed a line” with his driving, Leclerc told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “I think so. But, to be honest, I have crossed the line also myself in the past, and when this happens we normally have a discussion, we clear the air.<\/p>\n“We went through that in the past already and it went really well, so I have no worries that it will be the case also this weekend.<\/p>\n“But today he went a bit over the limit. I mean a contact between us two, being in a different race situation because I had saved quite a bit the tyres, I had a good pace at the end. It’s a bit of a shame that we lost that gap to Perez and couldn’t go and take him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“I used everything to try to hold position and eventually I think he just ended up on the dirty bit on the outside and then lost it.<\/p>\n
“There’s a point when you go a bit too far, then there’s no grip out there and I think that’s what he eventually found.<\/p>\n
“In that scenario, he should have just conceded and just parked up behind me. He probably would have the pace to overtake me because the McLaren is very quick. I know he lost a lot of ground there, but that’s racing.”<\/p>\n
Sky Sports F1’s<\/em> Nico Rosberg said Norris had made a “big mistake” by going off track at Turn 1, with the Brit eventually finishing sixth.<\/p>\n“It was quite a big mistake, which hurts as a driver because you are on pole position and favourite to get the win,” 2016 world champion Rosberg said. “Then you make a mistake at Turn 1 and fly off the track and are sixth after that.<\/p>\n“That’s very, very painful and will be tough for him to stomach, so hopefully he can get over it quickly and go back into qualifying mode.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n The best of the action from a dramatic Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nNorris, who will drive in his 109th grand prix on Sunday, remains without an F1 victory.<\/p>\nThe 24-year-old has come close to winning on multiple occasions, but he has lost out on several opportunities to at least challenge for victory in recent times due to errors.<\/p>\n“He lost the opportunity to win the race, although it would have been difficult against Verstappen,” Rosberg added.<\/p>\n“You’ve got to say Lando does make one or two mistakes sometimes.<\/p>\n“That’s exactly where you need that first win to give you that one per cent more self-confidence or self-belief. But there are one or two mistakes too many.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Lando Norris said he had ‘no chance’ of victory in the Sprint and the McLaren’s race pace was ‘shocking’ after going backward after his Sprint pole.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nA frustrated Norris apologised to his team over radio at the end of the race, but said that McLaren’s “shocking” race pace meant he had “no chance” of victory.<\/p>\n“Maybe we could have been one or two positions higher but that was it,” Norris told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “The Mercedes had very good pace and George was catching us quickly.<\/p>\n“Lewis had good pace as well and even the Red Bulls and Ferraris. I was managing to survive just because of the DRS. If I didn’t have DRS, I was long gone behind all of them.<\/p>\n“Our race pace was pretty shocking which we kind of expected just with how the track is and the limitations on the car, so nothing new.”<\/p>\nLeclerc: Sainz over the limit in Ferrari battle<\/h3>\nThere was further drama to come in Shanghai as a four-way battle for third reached its conclusion in the closing stages of the 19-lap race.<\/p>\nAfter being overtaken by Verstappen on lap seven, Fernando Alonso had Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz on his tail, with Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc quickly forming a DRS train behind.<\/p>\nAlonso showed off his trademark defensive skills to keep Sainz at bay, but finally came unstuck on the third-to-last lap as the in-form Ferrari driver pulled off a smart move to get ahead.<\/p>\nHowever, Alonso refused to accept the loss of position and dived up Sainz’s inside a few corners later, with the pair making contact that would force the Aston Martin driver out of the race and push the Ferrari off track.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Intense battle ensures for third place between Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc in the Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWhile Perez eased into third, Sainz rejoined the track just in front of Leclerc, and was then guilty of some slightly overzealous defence of his own against his Ferrari team-mate.<\/p>\nThe pair made contact as Sainz slid into Leclerc and pushed him off track, before the Monegasque eventually got past to claim fourth on the following lap.<\/p>\nAsked whether Sainz had “crossed a line” with his driving, Leclerc told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “I think so. But, to be honest, I have crossed the line also myself in the past, and when this happens we normally have a discussion, we clear the air.<\/p>\n“We went through that in the past already and it went really well, so I have no worries that it will be the case also this weekend.<\/p>\n“But today he went a bit over the limit. I mean a contact between us two, being in a different race situation because I had saved quite a bit the tyres, I had a good pace at the end. It’s a bit of a shame that we lost that gap to Perez and couldn’t go and take him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“It was quite a big mistake, which hurts as a driver because you are on pole position and favourite to get the win,” 2016 world champion Rosberg said. “Then you make a mistake at Turn 1 and fly off the track and are sixth after that.<\/p>\n
“That’s very, very painful and will be tough for him to stomach, so hopefully he can get over it quickly and go back into qualifying mode.”<\/p>\n
\n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n The best of the action from a dramatic Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nNorris, who will drive in his 109th grand prix on Sunday, remains without an F1 victory.<\/p>\nThe 24-year-old has come close to winning on multiple occasions, but he has lost out on several opportunities to at least challenge for victory in recent times due to errors.<\/p>\n“He lost the opportunity to win the race, although it would have been difficult against Verstappen,” Rosberg added.<\/p>\n“You’ve got to say Lando does make one or two mistakes sometimes.<\/p>\n“That’s exactly where you need that first win to give you that one per cent more self-confidence or self-belief. But there are one or two mistakes too many.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Lando Norris said he had ‘no chance’ of victory in the Sprint and the McLaren’s race pace was ‘shocking’ after going backward after his Sprint pole.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nA frustrated Norris apologised to his team over radio at the end of the race, but said that McLaren’s “shocking” race pace meant he had “no chance” of victory.<\/p>\n“Maybe we could have been one or two positions higher but that was it,” Norris told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “The Mercedes had very good pace and George was catching us quickly.<\/p>\n“Lewis had good pace as well and even the Red Bulls and Ferraris. I was managing to survive just because of the DRS. If I didn’t have DRS, I was long gone behind all of them.<\/p>\n“Our race pace was pretty shocking which we kind of expected just with how the track is and the limitations on the car, so nothing new.”<\/p>\nLeclerc: Sainz over the limit in Ferrari battle<\/h3>\nThere was further drama to come in Shanghai as a four-way battle for third reached its conclusion in the closing stages of the 19-lap race.<\/p>\nAfter being overtaken by Verstappen on lap seven, Fernando Alonso had Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz on his tail, with Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc quickly forming a DRS train behind.<\/p>\nAlonso showed off his trademark defensive skills to keep Sainz at bay, but finally came unstuck on the third-to-last lap as the in-form Ferrari driver pulled off a smart move to get ahead.<\/p>\nHowever, Alonso refused to accept the loss of position and dived up Sainz’s inside a few corners later, with the pair making contact that would force the Aston Martin driver out of the race and push the Ferrari off track.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Intense battle ensures for third place between Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc in the Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWhile Perez eased into third, Sainz rejoined the track just in front of Leclerc, and was then guilty of some slightly overzealous defence of his own against his Ferrari team-mate.<\/p>\nThe pair made contact as Sainz slid into Leclerc and pushed him off track, before the Monegasque eventually got past to claim fourth on the following lap.<\/p>\nAsked whether Sainz had “crossed a line” with his driving, Leclerc told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “I think so. But, to be honest, I have crossed the line also myself in the past, and when this happens we normally have a discussion, we clear the air.<\/p>\n“We went through that in the past already and it went really well, so I have no worries that it will be the case also this weekend.<\/p>\n“But today he went a bit over the limit. I mean a contact between us two, being in a different race situation because I had saved quite a bit the tyres, I had a good pace at the end. It’s a bit of a shame that we lost that gap to Perez and couldn’t go and take him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n <\/div>\n The best of the action from a dramatic Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nNorris, who will drive in his 109th grand prix on Sunday, remains without an F1 victory.<\/p>\nThe 24-year-old has come close to winning on multiple occasions, but he has lost out on several opportunities to at least challenge for victory in recent times due to errors.<\/p>\n“He lost the opportunity to win the race, although it would have been difficult against Verstappen,” Rosberg added.<\/p>\n“You’ve got to say Lando does make one or two mistakes sometimes.<\/p>\n“That’s exactly where you need that first win to give you that one per cent more self-confidence or self-belief. But there are one or two mistakes too many.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Lando Norris said he had ‘no chance’ of victory in the Sprint and the McLaren’s race pace was ‘shocking’ after going backward after his Sprint pole.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nA frustrated Norris apologised to his team over radio at the end of the race, but said that McLaren’s “shocking” race pace meant he had “no chance” of victory.<\/p>\n“Maybe we could have been one or two positions higher but that was it,” Norris told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “The Mercedes had very good pace and George was catching us quickly.<\/p>\n“Lewis had good pace as well and even the Red Bulls and Ferraris. I was managing to survive just because of the DRS. If I didn’t have DRS, I was long gone behind all of them.<\/p>\n“Our race pace was pretty shocking which we kind of expected just with how the track is and the limitations on the car, so nothing new.”<\/p>\nLeclerc: Sainz over the limit in Ferrari battle<\/h3>\nThere was further drama to come in Shanghai as a four-way battle for third reached its conclusion in the closing stages of the 19-lap race.<\/p>\nAfter being overtaken by Verstappen on lap seven, Fernando Alonso had Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz on his tail, with Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc quickly forming a DRS train behind.<\/p>\nAlonso showed off his trademark defensive skills to keep Sainz at bay, but finally came unstuck on the third-to-last lap as the in-form Ferrari driver pulled off a smart move to get ahead.<\/p>\nHowever, Alonso refused to accept the loss of position and dived up Sainz’s inside a few corners later, with the pair making contact that would force the Aston Martin driver out of the race and push the Ferrari off track.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Intense battle ensures for third place between Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc in the Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWhile Perez eased into third, Sainz rejoined the track just in front of Leclerc, and was then guilty of some slightly overzealous defence of his own against his Ferrari team-mate.<\/p>\nThe pair made contact as Sainz slid into Leclerc and pushed him off track, before the Monegasque eventually got past to claim fourth on the following lap.<\/p>\nAsked whether Sainz had “crossed a line” with his driving, Leclerc told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “I think so. But, to be honest, I have crossed the line also myself in the past, and when this happens we normally have a discussion, we clear the air.<\/p>\n“We went through that in the past already and it went really well, so I have no worries that it will be the case also this weekend.<\/p>\n“But today he went a bit over the limit. I mean a contact between us two, being in a different race situation because I had saved quite a bit the tyres, I had a good pace at the end. It’s a bit of a shame that we lost that gap to Perez and couldn’t go and take him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The best of the action from a dramatic Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nNorris, who will drive in his 109th grand prix on Sunday, remains without an F1 victory.<\/p>\nThe 24-year-old has come close to winning on multiple occasions, but he has lost out on several opportunities to at least challenge for victory in recent times due to errors.<\/p>\n“He lost the opportunity to win the race, although it would have been difficult against Verstappen,” Rosberg added.<\/p>\n“You’ve got to say Lando does make one or two mistakes sometimes.<\/p>\n“That’s exactly where you need that first win to give you that one per cent more self-confidence or self-belief. But there are one or two mistakes too many.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Lando Norris said he had ‘no chance’ of victory in the Sprint and the McLaren’s race pace was ‘shocking’ after going backward after his Sprint pole.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nA frustrated Norris apologised to his team over radio at the end of the race, but said that McLaren’s “shocking” race pace meant he had “no chance” of victory.<\/p>\n“Maybe we could have been one or two positions higher but that was it,” Norris told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “The Mercedes had very good pace and George was catching us quickly.<\/p>\n“Lewis had good pace as well and even the Red Bulls and Ferraris. I was managing to survive just because of the DRS. If I didn’t have DRS, I was long gone behind all of them.<\/p>\n“Our race pace was pretty shocking which we kind of expected just with how the track is and the limitations on the car, so nothing new.”<\/p>\nLeclerc: Sainz over the limit in Ferrari battle<\/h3>\nThere was further drama to come in Shanghai as a four-way battle for third reached its conclusion in the closing stages of the 19-lap race.<\/p>\nAfter being overtaken by Verstappen on lap seven, Fernando Alonso had Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz on his tail, with Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc quickly forming a DRS train behind.<\/p>\nAlonso showed off his trademark defensive skills to keep Sainz at bay, but finally came unstuck on the third-to-last lap as the in-form Ferrari driver pulled off a smart move to get ahead.<\/p>\nHowever, Alonso refused to accept the loss of position and dived up Sainz’s inside a few corners later, with the pair making contact that would force the Aston Martin driver out of the race and push the Ferrari off track.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Intense battle ensures for third place between Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc in the Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWhile Perez eased into third, Sainz rejoined the track just in front of Leclerc, and was then guilty of some slightly overzealous defence of his own against his Ferrari team-mate.<\/p>\nThe pair made contact as Sainz slid into Leclerc and pushed him off track, before the Monegasque eventually got past to claim fourth on the following lap.<\/p>\nAsked whether Sainz had “crossed a line” with his driving, Leclerc told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “I think so. But, to be honest, I have crossed the line also myself in the past, and when this happens we normally have a discussion, we clear the air.<\/p>\n“We went through that in the past already and it went really well, so I have no worries that it will be the case also this weekend.<\/p>\n“But today he went a bit over the limit. I mean a contact between us two, being in a different race situation because I had saved quite a bit the tyres, I had a good pace at the end. It’s a bit of a shame that we lost that gap to Perez and couldn’t go and take him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Norris, who will drive in his 109th grand prix on Sunday, remains without an F1 victory.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old has come close to winning on multiple occasions, but he has lost out on several opportunities to at least challenge for victory in recent times due to errors.<\/p>\n
“He lost the opportunity to win the race, although it would have been difficult against Verstappen,” Rosberg added.<\/p>\n
“You’ve got to say Lando does make one or two mistakes sometimes.<\/p>\n
“That’s exactly where you need that first win to give you that one per cent more self-confidence or self-belief. But there are one or two mistakes too many.”<\/p>\n
\n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Lando Norris said he had ‘no chance’ of victory in the Sprint and the McLaren’s race pace was ‘shocking’ after going backward after his Sprint pole.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nA frustrated Norris apologised to his team over radio at the end of the race, but said that McLaren’s “shocking” race pace meant he had “no chance” of victory.<\/p>\n“Maybe we could have been one or two positions higher but that was it,” Norris told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “The Mercedes had very good pace and George was catching us quickly.<\/p>\n“Lewis had good pace as well and even the Red Bulls and Ferraris. I was managing to survive just because of the DRS. If I didn’t have DRS, I was long gone behind all of them.<\/p>\n“Our race pace was pretty shocking which we kind of expected just with how the track is and the limitations on the car, so nothing new.”<\/p>\nLeclerc: Sainz over the limit in Ferrari battle<\/h3>\nThere was further drama to come in Shanghai as a four-way battle for third reached its conclusion in the closing stages of the 19-lap race.<\/p>\nAfter being overtaken by Verstappen on lap seven, Fernando Alonso had Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz on his tail, with Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc quickly forming a DRS train behind.<\/p>\nAlonso showed off his trademark defensive skills to keep Sainz at bay, but finally came unstuck on the third-to-last lap as the in-form Ferrari driver pulled off a smart move to get ahead.<\/p>\nHowever, Alonso refused to accept the loss of position and dived up Sainz’s inside a few corners later, with the pair making contact that would force the Aston Martin driver out of the race and push the Ferrari off track.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Intense battle ensures for third place between Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc in the Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWhile Perez eased into third, Sainz rejoined the track just in front of Leclerc, and was then guilty of some slightly overzealous defence of his own against his Ferrari team-mate.<\/p>\nThe pair made contact as Sainz slid into Leclerc and pushed him off track, before the Monegasque eventually got past to claim fourth on the following lap.<\/p>\nAsked whether Sainz had “crossed a line” with his driving, Leclerc told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “I think so. But, to be honest, I have crossed the line also myself in the past, and when this happens we normally have a discussion, we clear the air.<\/p>\n“We went through that in the past already and it went really well, so I have no worries that it will be the case also this weekend.<\/p>\n“But today he went a bit over the limit. I mean a contact between us two, being in a different race situation because I had saved quite a bit the tyres, I had a good pace at the end. It’s a bit of a shame that we lost that gap to Perez and couldn’t go and take him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n <\/div>\n Lando Norris said he had ‘no chance’ of victory in the Sprint and the McLaren’s race pace was ‘shocking’ after going backward after his Sprint pole.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nA frustrated Norris apologised to his team over radio at the end of the race, but said that McLaren’s “shocking” race pace meant he had “no chance” of victory.<\/p>\n“Maybe we could have been one or two positions higher but that was it,” Norris told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “The Mercedes had very good pace and George was catching us quickly.<\/p>\n“Lewis had good pace as well and even the Red Bulls and Ferraris. I was managing to survive just because of the DRS. If I didn’t have DRS, I was long gone behind all of them.<\/p>\n“Our race pace was pretty shocking which we kind of expected just with how the track is and the limitations on the car, so nothing new.”<\/p>\nLeclerc: Sainz over the limit in Ferrari battle<\/h3>\nThere was further drama to come in Shanghai as a four-way battle for third reached its conclusion in the closing stages of the 19-lap race.<\/p>\nAfter being overtaken by Verstappen on lap seven, Fernando Alonso had Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz on his tail, with Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc quickly forming a DRS train behind.<\/p>\nAlonso showed off his trademark defensive skills to keep Sainz at bay, but finally came unstuck on the third-to-last lap as the in-form Ferrari driver pulled off a smart move to get ahead.<\/p>\nHowever, Alonso refused to accept the loss of position and dived up Sainz’s inside a few corners later, with the pair making contact that would force the Aston Martin driver out of the race and push the Ferrari off track.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Intense battle ensures for third place between Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc in the Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWhile Perez eased into third, Sainz rejoined the track just in front of Leclerc, and was then guilty of some slightly overzealous defence of his own against his Ferrari team-mate.<\/p>\nThe pair made contact as Sainz slid into Leclerc and pushed him off track, before the Monegasque eventually got past to claim fourth on the following lap.<\/p>\nAsked whether Sainz had “crossed a line” with his driving, Leclerc told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “I think so. But, to be honest, I have crossed the line also myself in the past, and when this happens we normally have a discussion, we clear the air.<\/p>\n“We went through that in the past already and it went really well, so I have no worries that it will be the case also this weekend.<\/p>\n“But today he went a bit over the limit. I mean a contact between us two, being in a different race situation because I had saved quite a bit the tyres, I had a good pace at the end. It’s a bit of a shame that we lost that gap to Perez and couldn’t go and take him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Lando Norris said he had ‘no chance’ of victory in the Sprint and the McLaren’s race pace was ‘shocking’ after going backward after his Sprint pole.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nA frustrated Norris apologised to his team over radio at the end of the race, but said that McLaren’s “shocking” race pace meant he had “no chance” of victory.<\/p>\n“Maybe we could have been one or two positions higher but that was it,” Norris told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “The Mercedes had very good pace and George was catching us quickly.<\/p>\n“Lewis had good pace as well and even the Red Bulls and Ferraris. I was managing to survive just because of the DRS. If I didn’t have DRS, I was long gone behind all of them.<\/p>\n“Our race pace was pretty shocking which we kind of expected just with how the track is and the limitations on the car, so nothing new.”<\/p>\nLeclerc: Sainz over the limit in Ferrari battle<\/h3>\nThere was further drama to come in Shanghai as a four-way battle for third reached its conclusion in the closing stages of the 19-lap race.<\/p>\nAfter being overtaken by Verstappen on lap seven, Fernando Alonso had Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz on his tail, with Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc quickly forming a DRS train behind.<\/p>\nAlonso showed off his trademark defensive skills to keep Sainz at bay, but finally came unstuck on the third-to-last lap as the in-form Ferrari driver pulled off a smart move to get ahead.<\/p>\nHowever, Alonso refused to accept the loss of position and dived up Sainz’s inside a few corners later, with the pair making contact that would force the Aston Martin driver out of the race and push the Ferrari off track.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Intense battle ensures for third place between Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc in the Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWhile Perez eased into third, Sainz rejoined the track just in front of Leclerc, and was then guilty of some slightly overzealous defence of his own against his Ferrari team-mate.<\/p>\nThe pair made contact as Sainz slid into Leclerc and pushed him off track, before the Monegasque eventually got past to claim fourth on the following lap.<\/p>\nAsked whether Sainz had “crossed a line” with his driving, Leclerc told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “I think so. But, to be honest, I have crossed the line also myself in the past, and when this happens we normally have a discussion, we clear the air.<\/p>\n“We went through that in the past already and it went really well, so I have no worries that it will be the case also this weekend.<\/p>\n“But today he went a bit over the limit. I mean a contact between us two, being in a different race situation because I had saved quite a bit the tyres, I had a good pace at the end. It’s a bit of a shame that we lost that gap to Perez and couldn’t go and take him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
A frustrated Norris apologised to his team over radio at the end of the race, but said that McLaren’s “shocking” race pace meant he had “no chance” of victory.<\/p>\n
“Maybe we could have been one or two positions higher but that was it,” Norris told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “The Mercedes had very good pace and George was catching us quickly.<\/p>\n“Lewis had good pace as well and even the Red Bulls and Ferraris. I was managing to survive just because of the DRS. If I didn’t have DRS, I was long gone behind all of them.<\/p>\n“Our race pace was pretty shocking which we kind of expected just with how the track is and the limitations on the car, so nothing new.”<\/p>\nLeclerc: Sainz over the limit in Ferrari battle<\/h3>\nThere was further drama to come in Shanghai as a four-way battle for third reached its conclusion in the closing stages of the 19-lap race.<\/p>\nAfter being overtaken by Verstappen on lap seven, Fernando Alonso had Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz on his tail, with Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc quickly forming a DRS train behind.<\/p>\nAlonso showed off his trademark defensive skills to keep Sainz at bay, but finally came unstuck on the third-to-last lap as the in-form Ferrari driver pulled off a smart move to get ahead.<\/p>\nHowever, Alonso refused to accept the loss of position and dived up Sainz’s inside a few corners later, with the pair making contact that would force the Aston Martin driver out of the race and push the Ferrari off track.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Intense battle ensures for third place between Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc in the Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWhile Perez eased into third, Sainz rejoined the track just in front of Leclerc, and was then guilty of some slightly overzealous defence of his own against his Ferrari team-mate.<\/p>\nThe pair made contact as Sainz slid into Leclerc and pushed him off track, before the Monegasque eventually got past to claim fourth on the following lap.<\/p>\nAsked whether Sainz had “crossed a line” with his driving, Leclerc told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “I think so. But, to be honest, I have crossed the line also myself in the past, and when this happens we normally have a discussion, we clear the air.<\/p>\n“We went through that in the past already and it went really well, so I have no worries that it will be the case also this weekend.<\/p>\n“But today he went a bit over the limit. I mean a contact between us two, being in a different race situation because I had saved quite a bit the tyres, I had a good pace at the end. It’s a bit of a shame that we lost that gap to Perez and couldn’t go and take him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“Lewis had good pace as well and even the Red Bulls and Ferraris. I was managing to survive just because of the DRS. If I didn’t have DRS, I was long gone behind all of them.<\/p>\n
“Our race pace was pretty shocking which we kind of expected just with how the track is and the limitations on the car, so nothing new.”<\/p>\n
There was further drama to come in Shanghai as a four-way battle for third reached its conclusion in the closing stages of the 19-lap race.<\/p>\n
After being overtaken by Verstappen on lap seven, Fernando Alonso had Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz on his tail, with Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc quickly forming a DRS train behind.<\/p>\n
Alonso showed off his trademark defensive skills to keep Sainz at bay, but finally came unstuck on the third-to-last lap as the in-form Ferrari driver pulled off a smart move to get ahead.<\/p>\n
However, Alonso refused to accept the loss of position and dived up Sainz’s inside a few corners later, with the pair making contact that would force the Aston Martin driver out of the race and push the Ferrari off track.<\/p>\n
\n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Intense battle ensures for third place between Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc in the Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWhile Perez eased into third, Sainz rejoined the track just in front of Leclerc, and was then guilty of some slightly overzealous defence of his own against his Ferrari team-mate.<\/p>\nThe pair made contact as Sainz slid into Leclerc and pushed him off track, before the Monegasque eventually got past to claim fourth on the following lap.<\/p>\nAsked whether Sainz had “crossed a line” with his driving, Leclerc told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “I think so. But, to be honest, I have crossed the line also myself in the past, and when this happens we normally have a discussion, we clear the air.<\/p>\n“We went through that in the past already and it went really well, so I have no worries that it will be the case also this weekend.<\/p>\n“But today he went a bit over the limit. I mean a contact between us two, being in a different race situation because I had saved quite a bit the tyres, I had a good pace at the end. It’s a bit of a shame that we lost that gap to Perez and couldn’t go and take him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n <\/div>\n Intense battle ensures for third place between Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc in the Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWhile Perez eased into third, Sainz rejoined the track just in front of Leclerc, and was then guilty of some slightly overzealous defence of his own against his Ferrari team-mate.<\/p>\nThe pair made contact as Sainz slid into Leclerc and pushed him off track, before the Monegasque eventually got past to claim fourth on the following lap.<\/p>\nAsked whether Sainz had “crossed a line” with his driving, Leclerc told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “I think so. But, to be honest, I have crossed the line also myself in the past, and when this happens we normally have a discussion, we clear the air.<\/p>\n“We went through that in the past already and it went really well, so I have no worries that it will be the case also this weekend.<\/p>\n“But today he went a bit over the limit. I mean a contact between us two, being in a different race situation because I had saved quite a bit the tyres, I had a good pace at the end. It’s a bit of a shame that we lost that gap to Perez and couldn’t go and take him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Intense battle ensures for third place between Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc in the Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWhile Perez eased into third, Sainz rejoined the track just in front of Leclerc, and was then guilty of some slightly overzealous defence of his own against his Ferrari team-mate.<\/p>\nThe pair made contact as Sainz slid into Leclerc and pushed him off track, before the Monegasque eventually got past to claim fourth on the following lap.<\/p>\nAsked whether Sainz had “crossed a line” with his driving, Leclerc told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “I think so. But, to be honest, I have crossed the line also myself in the past, and when this happens we normally have a discussion, we clear the air.<\/p>\n“We went through that in the past already and it went really well, so I have no worries that it will be the case also this weekend.<\/p>\n“But today he went a bit over the limit. I mean a contact between us two, being in a different race situation because I had saved quite a bit the tyres, I had a good pace at the end. It’s a bit of a shame that we lost that gap to Perez and couldn’t go and take him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
While Perez eased into third, Sainz rejoined the track just in front of Leclerc, and was then guilty of some slightly overzealous defence of his own against his Ferrari team-mate.<\/p>\n
The pair made contact as Sainz slid into Leclerc and pushed him off track, before the Monegasque eventually got past to claim fourth on the following lap.<\/p>\n
Asked whether Sainz had “crossed a line” with his driving, Leclerc told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “I think so. But, to be honest, I have crossed the line also myself in the past, and when this happens we normally have a discussion, we clear the air.<\/p>\n“We went through that in the past already and it went really well, so I have no worries that it will be the case also this weekend.<\/p>\n“But today he went a bit over the limit. I mean a contact between us two, being in a different race situation because I had saved quite a bit the tyres, I had a good pace at the end. It’s a bit of a shame that we lost that gap to Perez and couldn’t go and take him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nPlease use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“We went through that in the past already and it went really well, so I have no worries that it will be the case also this weekend.<\/p>\n
“But today he went a bit over the limit. I mean a contact between us two, being in a different race situation because I had saved quite a bit the tyres, I had a good pace at the end. It’s a bit of a shame that we lost that gap to Perez and couldn’t go and take him.”<\/p>\n
\n \n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n <\/div>\n Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz discuss their on track battle at the Sprint of the Chinese GP.<\/span>\n <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nThe incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\nSainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The incident between the Ferrari duo was checked and cleared by the stewards, but Alonso faced a post-race investigation for his driving.<\/p>\n
Sainz told Sky Sports F1<\/em>: “Behind Fernando, I think I did a really good move around the outside of Turn 7. I think from then on he decided to be a bit of all or nothing into me, into Turn 9, which cost us both the race.<\/p>\n“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\nAlonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“I picked up damage and a lot of dirt in my tyre from that optimistic move. From there on I was sliding around with the damage to the car and the dirt on my tyres. I was doing everything I could to defend and obviously sliding.<\/p>\n
“I had a bit of a moment of there with Charles, but I apologise if I did something over the limit. We were all racing really hard today and I was trying my best to keep it under control out there.”<\/p>\n
Alonso suggested that Sainz was responsible for the contact between the pair.<\/p>\n
“Someone has to give up,” he told Sky Sports F1<\/em>. “I gave up in Turn Eight the racing line to avoid contact, he [Sainz] didn’t give up in Turn Nine and we didn’t avoid contact.”<\/p>\nBoth drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\nSky Sports F1’s live Chinese GP schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSaturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Both drivers continued to await the outcome of the stewards investigation with little more than an hour to go before Saturday’s full qualifying, live on Sky Sports F1 at 8am.<\/p>\n
Saturday April 20<\/strong>7am: Chinese GP Qualifying build-up*8am: Chinese GP Qualifying*<\/strong>10am: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*<\/p>\nSunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Sunday April 21<\/strong>7am: Grand Prix Sunday: Chinese GP build-up*8am: The CHINESE GRAND PRIX*<\/strong>10am: Chequered Flag: Chinese GP reaction*11am: Ted’s Notebook*<\/p>\n*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
*also live on Sky Sports Main Event<\/em><\/p>\nYou can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
You can watch every session of the Chinese Grand Prix live on Sky Sports F1 and <\/strong>steam every F1 race and more with a NOW Sports Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nAd content | Stream Sky Sports on NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nStream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Stream Sky Sports live with no contract on a Month or Day membership on NOW. Instant access to live action from the Premier League, EFL, F1, England Cricket, Tennis and so much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Lewis Hamilton has dismissed suggestions he forced Lando Norris off track at the start of the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint. Mercedes’ HamiltonRead More ›<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[266,1179,5834,1975,128,1394,95,628,1180,94,33,629,5833,267,1157,1457,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}