Race results - Hamilton takes sensational Shanghai win17 Apr 2011

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton has taken a well-deserved victory in Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix. After technical troubles just before the race, Hamilton stole the lead from Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel with four laps to go.

Polesitter Vettel had to content himself with second, whilst team mate Mark Webber bounced back in style, working his way up from 18th on the grid to the final podium spot. Full results......»

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts
1	3	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	56	1:36:58.226	3	25
2	1	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	56	+5.1 secs	1	18
3	2	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	56	+7.5 secs	18	15
4	4	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	56	+10.0 secs	2	12
5	8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	56	+13.4 secs	4	10
6	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	56	+15.8 secs	6	8
7	5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	56	+30.6 secs	5	6
8	7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	56	+31.0 secs	14	4
9	10	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	56	+57.4 secs	10	2
10	16	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	56	+63.2 secs	13	1
11	15	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	56	+68.7 secs	8
12	9	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	56	+72.7 secs	16
13	11	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	56	+90.1 secs	15
14	18	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	56	+90.6 secs	9
15	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	55	+1 Lap	11
16	20	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	55	+1 Lap	19
17	17	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	55	+1 Lap	12
18	12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	55	+1 Lap	17
19	21	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	55	+1 Lap	20
20	25	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	54	+2 Laps	21
21	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	54	+2 Laps	22
22	23	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT-Cosworth	54	+2 Laps	23
23	22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	54	+2 Laps	24
Ret	19	Jaime Alguersuari	STR-Ferrari	9	Wheel	7