Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas finished number 1 and number 2 for Mercedes-AMG Petronas at the FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN CHINESE GRAND PRIX 2019.  Sebastian Vettel came in third for Ferrari.  It was Hamilton’s 5th win at the Shanghai International Circuit.  Hamilton hit another Formula 1 milestone of leading for 4,000+ laps throughout his career.

Ferrari Team Orders?

At one point of the race Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was in the 3rd place in front of his teammate Sebastian Vettel, who seemed to have more pace, when he was given team orders to let Vettel overtake him, so Vettel could better take the fight to the Mercedes AMG Petronas team.  Needless to say Leclerc was very frustrated.

In my opinion, there seems to be 2 equally good options, instead of giving team orders to let one team member pass the other, you can just let the team members race and battle it out.