McLaren totally dominate as Piastri and Norris complete one-two in China with Hamilton having to settle for sixth

OSCAR PIASTRI raced to the third race win of his career with a calm and collected Chinese Grand Prix victory.

Piastri started from the front of the pack and held his nerve throughout while Lando Norris extended his early lead at the top of the Drivers Championship with a second-place finish.

Norris experienced severe brake issues towards the end of the race which would have allowed George Russell the chance to overtake if there had been one more lap.

But the chequered flag came in time for Norris, while Russell scored a second third-place podium in a row.

It was McLaren's 50th ever one-two in the sport, which managed to banish their demons from the Australian Grand Prix when it slipped through their grasp.

Lewis Hamilton finished behind Charles Leclerc in sixth after initially swapping behind his team-mate despite the Monegasque running with a broken front wing from lap one following a clip on the Brit.

Hamilton gambled on a two-stop strategy to have more pace at the end of the race.

The move dropped him behind Max Verstappen, who Hamilton never managed to overtake again with the Dutchman showing extraordinary pace on older hard compound tyres.

That pace remarkably allowed the Red Bull driver to get past Leclerc four laps from the end, with Leclerc really struggling with his damaged front wing end plate.

The top six were in a race all to their own, finishing more than 20 seconds ahead of the rest of the field in Shanghai.

Haas scored their first points of the season with Esteban Ocon finishing P7 and rookie Ollie Bearman in P10.

Kimi Antonelli ended P8 to tack on four points for Mercedes, while Alex Albon added two more points for Williams with a P9 finish.

Further down the order, Liam Lawson's nightmare start as Verstappen's team-mate continued as he finished P15 following his nightmare qualifying.

The Kiwi star profited from a 10-second time penalty against Alpine's Jack Doohan, who was penalised for forcing Racing Bulls star Isack Hadjar off the race track at Turn 14.