Lewis Hamilton Wins Shanghai Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton Canvas Art Print

Lewis Hamilton stormed to victory at the Shanghai Grand Prix this weekend with his first win in almost eight months, which was back in August 2010 at Spa. This adds life to his season as he has now closed the gap on the Red Bull driver Sebastien Vettel, who is the Championship leader, to a mere 21 points. Hamilton told the press that it was a win on par with those of his at Silverstone and Monaco. “I live, breathe and exist to win,” he also said. Hamilton drove a brilliant race, involving swift manoeuvres to pass the likes of Felipe Massa, Nico Rosberg, Jensen Button and Sebastien Vettel (twice!). Lewis may have been lucky not to miss out on winning when Jensen Button missed his pit stop call, going in a lap late and consequently causing his fellow team mate to enter later, which cost him a place. Jenson Button was unable to fully recover from this odd error – he could only manage 4^th place.

The team at Red Bull seemed happy with their team’s performance, as Sebastien Vettel and Mark Webber attained 2^nd and 3^rd places, also finishing 5 and 7 seconds behind the Brit respectively. Mark Webber performed rather well, considering the fact that he started the race in 18^th position. Despite their impressive performances, they could only manage a total of 33 points, which was 4 points fewer than McLaren accumulated. Over at Ferrari, Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso produced, what some might say, a disappointing performance. They could only obtain 14 points between them at 6^th and 7^th places. The remainder of the points were shared between Michael Schumacher (8^th), Vitaly Petrov (9^th) and Kamui Kobayashi (10^th).

The next Grand Prix we have to look forward to will be the Turkish Grand Prix, to be held at Istanbul Park from the 6^th to the 8^th May. This race last year produced an incredibly exciting race, with Lewis Hamilton and Jensen Button swooping the top 2 positions with only 2 seconds separating the British duo. Kovalainen retired after just 33 laps and Sebastien Vettel crashed on his 39^th lap.

At Modern Canvas Art, we love to see British athletes triumph, whatever the sport may be. Although having seen the poor performance at the 2010 world cup in South Africa, it’s beginning to feel like we might have to turn to other sports for joy.

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