Louis Hamilton’s first win as Ferrari driver in Shanghai sprint is a “important” early moment in the new relationship of F1’s box-office Sky Sports F1 Karun Chandok.
The sprint format of the F1-which occurs in six race weekends through a 24-race campaign and gives additional points to top-eight finishers-in your own qualifying session and short-form 100 km race, effectively stands apart from the main grand pricks that carry large points and historical reputation.
Hamilton’s lights-to-flag win at the 19-Lap sprint in China on Saturday, although the 105 race does not expand its record of winning, which is likely to do on Sunday that it was a long shot after qualifying for that main 56-lap grand prix in the fifth after catching less than Ferrari.
But Sky Sports F1 Pandit and former driver Chandok say that Sprint Triumph has given great importance in itself on Hamilton’s second weekend driving for Ferrari, which has seen him the new team partner Charles Lakeler for the first time in all major sessions.
“This is an important day. Ferrari is playing it, saying that it is only a sprint, it is only one day, but it is important,” Chandok said. Sky sports news,
“It was Lewis Hamilton in a dry race after a dry merit, when they were all on the same track on the same tire, put it on the pole and winning.
“If it barks like a dog and smells like a dog, it is a dog – it was a race, and he won it.
“It was not a grand prix, it was a third of the distance, but he looked under control. It was Lewis Hamilton that we remember for the last three years. Getting up on the occasion, getting out of the front, breaking DRS, breaking the DRS, metronomically uprooted those laps and won the sprint.”
‘This is what Ferrari has signed on it’
After celebrating his impressive sprint win – his first attempt in 19 attempts since his debut in 2021 – Hamilton said that “Yaping” of his disappointing debut weekend with Ferrari in Australia, when he finished 10th in the rain, made “uncontrolled inference” in the race of Albert Park.
Chandok said: “I felt that this is a messy race. Despite the fact that he is Lewis Hamilton and is definitely the biggest time ever, he is going to take bed for a few days.
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Hamilton was thrilled after winning his first race with Ferrari in Sprint around Shanghai International Circuit
“I felt that there were some interesting things coming out of Ferrari camp [on Saturday]One of the Lewis himself said that the way Ferrari worked in Melbourne, because it was the first weekend and he did not want to go there, the way he used to wave his arms in terms of changing the way of changing things.
“But at the end of this week, he has not waved his arms, but said that ‘I want to change some things with the car, some directions that we go with set-up, and try to find a sweet space’.
“He talked about catching with his race engineer, Riccyardo Adi, prepared himself to spend the week on Monday on Monday, getting the car in a sweet place that he wanted for a practice session, and he did so.”
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Hamilton led from beginning to end
And on the initial impact, Hamilton is already running on the most famous team of F1, Chandok said: “This is what Ferrari has brought Lewis to the table.
“They have bought that experience and brought more than 100 Grand Prix victory and more than 100 sticks to give them a little stear, the wheel cannot be strengthened again, and is to transport the goods on the track there.”
Live Chinese GP Schedule of Sky Sports F1
Sunday 23 March
- 2.40 pm: F1 Academy Race 2
- 5.30 pm: Chinese GP Build-Up: Grand Prix Sunday*
- 7 am: Chinese Grand Prix*
- 9am: Chinese GP Reaction: Checker Flag*
- 10 am: Ted’s notebook*
*Sky Sports Main Event also
Formula 1 is for the first sprint weekend of the season in Chinese GP in Shanghai this week, live on Sky Sports F1. Stream Sky Sports with Now – No contract, ever cancel
