Catch the best bits from the first Sprint of the 2025 season, as Lewis Hamilton leads us off the line from pole in a Ferrari for the first time.
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00:00There is the green flag. Here come the lights. The first sprint of the season. Moments away.
00:05And we're underway and sprinting to turn number one. The pole sitter Lewis Hamilton chops across Max Verstappen.
00:12He needed to, to interrupt his momentum into the first turn. The top three are as they were.
00:17Charles Leclerc is remaining in fourth place. It's George Russell trying to apply the pressure.
00:21Hamilton applied the chop. Getting out of it, the second Ferrari of Charles Leclerc.
00:26Had a look at Oskar Piastri. He wasn't able to make the move.
00:29Russell and Norris are close. The top five are as they were.
00:32Can anyone make that late dive-bomb move into turn six? Not at the moment.
00:37And now Norris could get shuffled back. Will get shuffled back.
00:40He's lost a couple of places. He tumbles down to ninth.
00:43Yeah, just got pushed a little bit wide on the kerb on the braking into the turn.
00:48And a little bit scrappy from Norris being in that mid pack there.
00:53This is the second Mercedes then of Kimi Antonelli, who is still behind Yuki Tsunoda.
00:58And we're going to get a look. There we go at Lando just slipping wide.
01:02There was no one on his inside and I think he caught himself out on the brakes.
01:05Didn't want to run into the back of Russell.
01:07So just meanders to the outside of the road, drops a wheel on the grass and drops another two places.
01:16Late on the brakes for George Russell. And it's a move that takes him up the order to fourth position.
01:21And he makes that move at turn 14.
01:23Yeah, that's a good move from Russell.
01:24So Leclerc spent most of the first lap harrowing the first of the McLarens in Oscar Piastri.
01:30And then just didn't have the speed on the straight and George Russell just sneaks up the inside.
01:38At the hairpin. And oh, the contact there.
01:42Late on the brakes from Liam Lawson in the Navy Red Bull into the side of Jack Dewan.
01:46Those two have raced each other in the lower formula in the past and that was elbows out.
01:50He's desperate to show a bit of punchiness now, isn't he?
01:52After a really difficult start to his Red Bull time.
01:56Wonderful pitches of the best overtaking opportunity on the racetrack.
02:00And further back, Liam Lawson is now past Esteban Ocon.
02:03He's up to P70.
02:05Yeah, that's the sort of progress that he definitely needs to make.
02:10Slightly wider moment for Lewis Hamilton.
02:13Max Verstappen, nose cam for the four-time world champion.
02:16Chasing down the seven-time champion of the world.
02:19These two all-time greats putting on a show in Shanghai.
02:22This is like for like for last year, isn't it?
02:25Hamilton leading the sprint. Verstappen coming through.
02:27It was from fourth on the grid last year. Managed to win the sprint.
02:30Hamilton held the early laps. We've got the same.
02:32This time he's in a much more competitive car, the Ferrari, around this weekend.
02:38Norris, in fact, is just dropping away from Lance Stroll.
02:41Incredible sentence at the start of the weekend.
02:43Once again, late on the brakes for Isaac Hadjar.
02:46And the French driver this time looks like he's got a way through.
02:49And he has so. Past Bortoletto, past Gasly.
02:52And now Hadjar has got up to 14th place.
02:55Couple of cars and a couple of laps. Bit of debris there coming off
02:58as Gasly tries to retake the position into the first turn.
03:02Lawson's to the inside of Bortoletto as Gasly tries the long way round to reclaim the place.
03:06Bortoletto gets by. Gasly retakes the position.
03:09Or does he? The two Frenchmen wheel-to-wheel.
03:11The Alpine gets ahead. Gasly back to P40.
03:14Well, great racing.
03:15And, well, all the experience of Gasly to know that covering off the inside,
03:20well, you're going to have to compromise your entry speed.
03:22And it's worked for him to get the place back this time.
03:27Pierre Gasly claiming a fourth position. Improved in the sprints.
03:31That's how he got past Carlos Sainz in the Williams.
03:36It's really difficult to make a move at Turn 1.
03:38We've seen it from further back.
03:39You've got to get your rivals offline in the hairpin and in the final corner
03:43because you can't just send a dive into the first corner.
03:45Meanwhile, his teammates, he's running all alone.
03:48Norris three seconds behind Stroll.
03:50There must be an issue with that McLaren.
03:52Talking of an issue, Sainz, I think, has a problem.
03:55He's just been passed by Isaac Hajar and Liam Lawson.
03:58And he has been brought into the pits.
04:00And the Williams tumbles down to the back of the field.
04:03How can we help? Do you have any pace?
04:05No, no. I'm flat out.
04:09Look at the gap now. You've got half a second.
04:11Closest Piastri's been all the way through.
04:13Hamilton has checked out, out front.
04:15And the Australian driver is finally in the wheel track
04:18to the part of the circuit he would want to be.
04:20From the slipstream to second place for Oscar Piastri.
04:24Verstappen will try and hang on, but his tyres are gone.
04:27And so is the McLaren.
04:29Does Piastri have enough left in his fronts to chase down Lewis Hamilton?
04:33Or is 2.7 seconds just too much on laps 16 and 19?
04:38Here's Pierre Gasly, who is going to improve another position.
04:42This is going to be the fifth one that he's gained.
04:44Up against Oli Behrmann.
04:46And all the way around the outside.
04:51Leclerc's really, really close to the back of the Mercedes.
04:54Not going to make it through there.
04:55And they're both heading towards the podium.
04:57We did see it in Australia in that drive first into the race.
05:00The Red Bull very hard on its tyres and slipping out of contention.
05:03This is like the first lap.
05:05We've got Leclerc and Russell nudging each other.
05:08We've got a problem.
05:10It's undrivable.
05:13I cannot turn the car at all.
05:16It may be undrivable, but he's driving his way to the outside of the Mercedes.
05:20He's always going to get shut down there.
05:22He has got definitely a couple of chances on this final lap to find a way through.
05:29Lewis Hamilton is into the final corners in this storied career.
05:33Hamilton will write a new chapter.
05:36And this time it's written in red.
05:38Lewis Hamilton wins for Ferrari for the first time in Formula 1.
05:43He's left them all behind.
05:45A winner now for Leclerc and Mercedes.
05:47And now Ferrari in Formula 1.
05:50Second for Oskar Piastri.
05:52Max Verstappen clings on to third.
05:54Russell in fourth.
05:56Leclerc couldn't get by.
05:57Tsunoda, Antonelli and Norris the last of the point scorers.
06:02It's a P1, baby.
06:04Great job, guys.
06:06Yes.
06:07Good job, mate.
06:09Good job, Lewis.
06:10Hold on a minute.
06:11Congrats.
06:13And what happened at the very end of the race?
06:15Here comes the answer.
06:16He's trying to make the move on Gabriel Bortoletto.
06:18It's a late send.
06:20It's a lock-up.
06:21It's a tap round.
06:22And it's a park-up for most of the field as Doohan finishes towards the back.
06:27Bortoletto and Hülkenberg get by along with Carlos Sainz
06:30who had to stop in that race.
06:34Formula 1 statistical greatest driver with Formula 1's most famous team.
06:40Now a winning combination in two races.
06:42And he will use that as a foundation.
06:45What he will love at the end of that one is how much pace he still had in reserve.