#china 2017

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"It's 'Sebastian Vettee' because he doesn't take Ls 😉 A helping hand from @.sebastianvettel for these fans in China 🇨🇳" - april 16, 2024 📷 @.f1 / instagram

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China 2017

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China

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Lewis Hamilton relishing 'closest F1 title race' of his career

Avenging his defeat to his Ferrari rival in the season-opening Australian GP, Hamilton completed the third grand slam of his F1 career as he secured what was ultimately a comfortable victory at Shanghai. But the story of the race could have been very different but for an unfortunate strategy decision from Ferrari, when they called in Vettel under the virtual safety car on the second lap only for the call to backfire, relegating the German to sixth when the full safety car was deployed moments later. "We were matching times," said Hamilton after Vettel fought back to second place with outstanding moves past teammate Kimi Räikkönen and the Red Bull of Daniel Ricciardo. "If there wasn't a safety car it would've been much closer. It's going to be one of the closest, if not the closest, fights I've experienced." Nor has Vettel's confidence for the rest of the season been undimmed by his defeat in China. "In terms of pace we had a kind of match with Lewis; sometimes I was quicker, sometimes he was," the Ferrari driver told reporters. "It is, as I said, very, very close," reiterated Hamilton. "There were times when Sebastian put laps in and it was hard to even match the time. The last ten or twelve laps he was doing a 35.6 and I was doing a 35.8 and it was very hard to get to where he was. Then there was other times in the race when I was quicker."

Lewis denies Seb "bromance" Hamilton and Vettel, winners of six of the last seven Drivers' Championships, have never previously gone head-to-head in an F1 title race, but the gloves are yet to come off in their rivalry, with the pair heaping praise on each other and, so far at least, preferring to trade back-slaps, handshakes and thumbs-up rather than blows. "There's no bromance, but we have a hugely respectful competitiveness," insisted Hamilton. "I'm really looking forward to more battles with him." The pair embraced again immediately after the race, but Hamilton later revealed that he had warned Vettel in Australia that he was out for revenge in China.

"The following hours after Melbourne, I had a burning pain of losing," Hamilton explained to Sky F1. "I told Seb I was coming back to get him in the next one. I said to him on the podium, 'I told you''"

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✨⛏️ Golden Lagoon pickaxe fight animatic for my storyboarding final ⛏️✨

(now with sound lol)

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Lottie Moss by Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello

- Numero China, April 2017

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Hongyi Chen's bright costume at the 2018 Junior Worlds.

(Photos by David W. Carmichael)

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36.422

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several years ago, an elderly paldean man who lived in a small town by a remote river was out doing his daily chores when he heard the sound of an infant crying downstream. concerned that a baby had been lost or abandoned, the man followed the sound to the source, which turned out to be a small clodsire that had been agitated by something. while the discovery was important, as clodsire is endangered and recovery efforts have been slow, the man reportedly told news stations that he was rather disappointed, as he had hoped to adopt the baby as his granddaughter if it turned out to be a baby girl.

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Passenger Car type recommendations in China - based on Electricity Grid Emissions in 2017

by u/Ordinary-Giraffe-442

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sebastian vettel in the garage on practice day, china - april 7, 2017 📷 charles coates / motorsport images

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China 2017

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Kiki Willems by Camilla Akrans for Vogue China June 2017

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Beijing, China.

The Great Wall of China

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Lewis Hamilton: Sebastian Vettel Battle Will Be Career High

Lewis Hamilton says he and 2017 Formula 1 title opponent Sebastian Vettel have greater mutual respect than he has experienced in any other rivalry.

UPDATED 10/04/2017 AT 07:39 EDT

The pair are now tied atop the F1 drivers' championship having had a win and a second place apiece in 2017's opening races. Although they have won seven of the last nine titles between them, Hamilton and Vettel have not previously had a one-on-one championship battle and currently enjoy a friendly relationship, and Hamilton is hopeful that that won't change.

"I honestly think it will stay the way it is. Who knows, maybe we'll have times where we're racing hard together, and of course there could be that scenario where one of us thinks something is unfair, or has been too aggressive, whatever it may be. But we're grown men, we've come a long way, and we've experienced a lot. The respect for one another is the highest that I have felt from another driver, especially of his calibre," Hamilton continued. "It's amazing sportsmanship. When you win you enjoy it, and you also acknowledge the person next door, and even when you lose it's the same thing. We're both doing that, and that's a great place to be. Naturally he wants to kill me out there and beat me, and vice versa, but then outside the car the admiration for the other's achievements and the way that they drive [is there too]. He's performing at his best, he is rapid out there, so when I'm able to get ahead it only compliments you, and vice versa." After three years of an exclusive title fight with now-former Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg, Hamilton said taking on an external rival in a Ferrari made wins more satisfying. "I'm fighting against a four-time world champion. He's at his best and he's phenomenally quick, and Ferrari are at their best in years, in a decade, pretty much, I think. We're at our best as a team, and I feel like I'm at my best," he added, before reiterating his own form: "The ultimate fighter always wants to go up against the best battle that he can have, because then when you come out on top it's just so much more satisfying. So yeah, I love this fight that we're having." Hamilton hopes the title battle can be a straight head-to-head without disruption from outside influences such as accidents or the mechanical failures that marred his 2016 campaign. "Sitting there with Sebastian, we were like, 'This is going to go right down to the end of the season,'" said Hamilton, "and I just hope that, for both of us, there's nothing mechanical comes in between our sheer battle through ability. I really, really hope it's just an out and out fight through stubbornness, through mental stability, through fitness, through composure and all those things, and, at times, through just outdriving the person on track. When other things start playing bigger roles, whether it's safety cars or whether it's mechanical things, that takes away that excitement of what racing's about."