Oscar Piastri wins Chinese Grand Prix while teammate Lando Norris makes it a McLaren 1-2

Oscar Piastri won the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday in what was a dominant race for McLaren with his teammate Lando Norris finishing second.

Oscar Piastri won the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday in what was a dominant race for McLaren with his teammate Lando Norris finishing second. Piastri started the race on pole and put in assured performance to lead for almost the entire race in Shanghai to eventually finish almost 10 seconds ahead of Norris. It is the Australian’s third F1 Grand Prix victory of his career and cements McLaren’s position as the pre-season favorites to knock four-time defending champion Red Bull off the top of the drivers’ championship race. The two McLaren cars were by far the fastest in China with Piastri holding his lead at the front of the race throughout, except when he had to make a pit stop, and easily overcoming any challengers that threatened his lead. “It’s been an incredible weekend, the car has been pretty mega,” the 23-year-old said afterwards. “Today was a surprise, how differently the tyres behaved. This feels like what I deserved from last week. “Very, very happy just, yeah, very happy. The hard was a much better tyre than everyone expected, so to go all the way to the end was a bit of a surprise, but a happy surprise.”