The McLarens dominated the Chinese Grand Prix, with Jenson Button winning the race an Lewis Hamilton finishing in the 2nd place just 1.5 seconds behind Button. Nico Rosberg completed the podium as he gave a magnificent performance and finished in 3rd place. The whole race was incredible with drivers fighting for places all the time, and race leaders changing one after the other.
At the start of the race Fernando Alonso started before the lights went off, resulting in taking a penalty for it. Rain was coming and going and pit lane was full all the time. One thing led to another and Alonso fell far behind, but managed to rise up again and eventually finish in 4th place. Nico Rosberg stayed with dry tires when others changed to intermediate, and took the lead. Jenson Button also did not change tyres and managed to pas Rosberg eventually and finish in the 1st place. Robert Kubica finished 5th with teammate Vitaly Petrov in 7th place. Sebastian Vettel had a bad race once again as he fell to the 6th place, though he won the pole on Saturday's qualifying. Teammate Mark Webber was 8th. Felipe Massa finished 9th. 7 times world champion Michael Schumacher gave his own superb battle with Lewis Hamilton during the middle of the race.Eventually he finished in 10th place.
Results:
1 Jenson Button
2 Lewis Hamilton
3 Nico Rosberg
4 Fernando Alonso
5 Robert Kubica
6 Sebastian Vettel
7 Vitaly Petrov
8 Mark Webber
9 Felipe Massa
10 Michael Schumacher
11 Adrian Sutil
12 Rubens Barrichello
13 Jaime Alguersuari
14 Heikki Kovalainen
15 Nico Hulkenberg
16 Bruno Senna
17 Karun Chandhok
Ret Jarno Trulli
Ret Lucas di Grassi
Ret Pedro de la Rosa
Ret Sebastien Buemi
Ret Kamui Kobayashi
Ret Vitantonio Liuzzi
Ret Timo Glock