Red Bull
Race: Vettel
Overall: Vettel 2 vs Webber 1
A disastrous weekend for Webber throughout, and was doing a great recovery until he spun Vergne around, who knows where he could of come as the Shanghai circuit is one of his best despite the Red Bull not favoring it. Nevertheless, Vettel did a good job in the race and may have pipped Hamilton to the podium if he wasn't a bit over excited in turn 11/12 on the last lap. Vettel takes the lead.
Ferrari
Race: Alonso
Season: Alonso 2 vs Massa 1
After the two scarlet red cars overtook Hamilton early on, many expected them to run away to a one-two finish, which Alonso did, but Massa's late tyre change from the soft's compromised him and didn't have the pace anymore, instead finishing behind Button in 6th. Alonso did the maximum to make up his Malaysian mistake.
McLaren
Race: Button
Season: Button 3 vs Perez 0
Perez has been told by McLaren management to toughen up, after finishing 11th to Button's impressive 5th. Jenson is outclassing Sergio, it just seems Perez has lost his confidence moving up into the big ranks but being dogged with their worst car since 2009. Lets hope he gets a few points in the first half of the season to prove himself.
Lotus
Race: Raikkonen
Season: Raikkonen 2 vs Grosjean 1
Raikkonen back on form showing his Australian form, and lies 2nd behind Vettel in the championship. After a poor start Raikkonen survived the first lap, whilst Grosjean had an adequate race, not really been seen on the screens too much. Romain scored his first podium in Bahrain last year, would be good to see some of his top form again.
Mercedes
Race: Hamilton
Season: Rosberg 1 vs Hamilton 2
Even without the retirement, Hamilton gained a superb pole position before Lewis clung onto 3rd in a slower race car, whilst I suspect Rosberg may have finished 5th, 6th or 7th. Mercedes are definitely chucking themselves in the mix, they just need to sort out mechnical issues before it bites them too regularly, and Lewis has 2012 dejavu!
Sauber
Race: Hulkenberg
Season: Hulkenberg 3 vs Gutierrez 0
Poor from Gutierrez this weekend, rookie or not, the class between these two at the moment is perhaps one of the most obvious of the teammate battles. I hope the young Mexican proves us wrong for the sport's sake, but he hasn't been noticed like Perez in 2011. Not Sauber's strongest weekend but once again Hulkenberg led a race - need to sort out quicker pit stops though!
Force India
Race: di Resta
Season: di Resta 2 vs Sutil 1
Adrian may be sitting on the naughty step until Bahrain, after everybody but himself saw him give Paul no room coming out of the hairpin, it made Paul lose several places from 10th to 14th. A great comeback to 8th shows Force India's pace this year, if they stop having silly makes they can secure 6th and challenge for 5th. Paul will feel a bit of justice that it was Adrian who had Gutierrez smash into the back of though!
Williams
Race: Bottas
Season: Maldonado 0 vs Bottas 3
Williams still finished over 20 seconds behind 12th place Vergne's Toro Rosso, but have improved. Nevertheless, Bottas still finished ahead of Maldonado, thus the Finn gets the point. Who would have predicted 3-0 to Bottas?
Toro Rosso
Race: Ricciardo
Season: Vergne 2 vs Ricciardo 1
Ricciardo one of the stars of the weekend, outclassing Vergne and gaining him a big teammate battle point. He now has over half of the points from the whole 2012 season, and both his qualifying in 7th and ability to stay there despite front wing damage should be heavily noted. Sure Vergne got spun by Webber, but I doubt he still would have scored points. Ricciardo was 6th in qualifying in Bahrain last year, can he start a consistent streak?
Caterham
Race: Pic
Season: Pic 3 vs van der Garde 0
Pic easily overhauled the Dutchman again, who finished behind Chilton. van der Garde may be wondering why it took him this long to get into F1, but his start has been tougher than tough.
Marussia
Race: Bianchi
Season: Bianchi 3 vs Chilton 0
Chilton performed much better again, but is still far, far behind Bianchi and needs to at least finish ahead of Pic if he is going to have a strong season and be more noticed like Jules is currently.
Nick, F1 Hub
Let us know what you think of the teammate battles!
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