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Lewis Hamilton dominated the sprint race at the Chinese Grand Prix, winning from pole to take his first Formula 1 victory for Ferrari.

The seven-time F1 world champion recently said he wasn't comfortable in the Ferrari, but performance data gathered from sprint qualifying tell another story

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The 40-year-old was start first in Saturday’s race at the Chinese Grand Prix.

The rolling cheers were the first clue. Reverberating as if sprint qualifying for Formula 1’s Chinese Grand Prix was taking place within a leisure centre swimming pool – such is the way the Shanghai track’s giant main grandstand traps noise - was the noise that greeted Lewis Hamilton’s first Ferrari pole.

Lewis Hamilton landed his first pole position as a Ferrari driver by taking top spot for the sprint race at the Chinese Grand Prix

Norris saw off Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc by 0.454 seconds with the fastest time in the sole practice for the Chinese Grand Prix.

Lando Norris needed the whole of the one and only practice session at the Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix before he ultimately set the benchmark with a stunning lap.

Hamilton struggled in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix last weekend.

The former driver felt the pair needed a “rap on the knuckles” after backchat on the radio during Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix

Until Lewis Hamilton landed at Maranello this past January, Charles Leclerc was widely seen as the cornerstone of the Scuderia’s project. The Monegasque driver joined the Ferrari Driver Academy in 2016, two years before making a low-key Formula 1 debut in 2018 with Sauber.