Lewis Hamilton has won the 2015 Chinese Grand Prix for a fourth time ahead of team-mate Nico Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel.
Hamilton has won the race at the Shanghai International Circuit on three previous occasions, in 2008, 2011 and 2014.
Hamilton was under threat from Rosberg and Vettel for majority of the race however used the speed of his Mercedes to pull clear when it matters.
After winning last time out in Malaysia, Sebastian Vettel came home third, which is his third consecutive podium for Ferrari.
Raikkonen finished fourth ahead of the Williams duo of Massa and Bottas.
Grosjean scored his first points since the 2014 Monaco Grand Prix after finishing seventh ahead of Nasr, Ricciardo and Ericsson.
Sergio Perez missed out on points by finishing eleventh whilst Alonso finished ahead of team-mate Button in twelfth and thirteenth.
The top three maintained their positions into the first corner whilst Kimi Raikkonen made light work of the Williams’ drivers as the Finn recovered from a poor qualifying to move up to fourth on the opening lap.
The Ferrari’s kept Hamilton within close range in the opening stint. Further down the field, on lap two, Carlos Sainz spun at turn one and dropped to the back of the field.
Both Red Bull drivers had torrid starts as Kvyat dropped fourteenth and Ricciardo seventeenth. The team ordered Kvyat to let Ricciardo past during the first stint however the Russian ignored the order thus battled team-mate Ricciardo in a battle eventually won by the Australian.
As the race progressed, the top seven remained the same with Hamilton leading Rosberg, Vettel, Raikkonen, Massa, Bottas and Grosjean.
Verstappen pulled several fantastic overtaking manoeuvres on Ericsson and Perez to move into the points paying positions whilst the other Toro Rosso of Carlos Sainz retired due to a gearbox related issue.
Despite running a strong eighth place, Pastor Maldonado threw it away with two rookie mistakes, he locked up at the pit-entry resulting in him running wide into the run-off area and spun at turn six.
The battle for thirteenth place hotted up on lap 47 between Maldonado, Button and Alonso. Button tapped the back of Maldonado into turn one causing damaged to both cars.
Max Verstappen retired from the race on lap 54, after running in eighth place, resulting in the only SC of the afternoon.
Manor made progress as both Will Stevens and Roberto Mehri finished the race albeit two laps down.
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