Fernando Alonso won the 2013 Chinese Grand Prix in a masterful display of tyre strategy and quick driving. Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton joined the Spaniard on the podium, even as Sebastian Vettel pushed hard to catch Hamilton near the end. Some teams and drivers chose to try a two stop strategy while most of the field chose a three stopper. Red Bull started Vettel on the harder tyre and ended him on the softs, but it just wasn’t enough to allow the reigning world champion to pass Hamilton before the end. There was some dicing over position on the start, as Alonso and Felipe Massa dove in under Raikkonen to take second and third early. Alonso would parlay that move into the win with...
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