Lewis Hamilton from the German. However, on the final lap he and Vettel made up an 18-second gap to overtake Timo Glock, who was struggling on dry tyres, on the last corner to re-take fifth place and deny race-winner Massa the title by one point. This made Hamilton the youngest driver to win the World Drivers' Championship, the first black driver, and the first British driver to win the World Championship since Damon Hill in 1996. Hamilton was verbally heckled and otherwise abused during pre-season testing at the Circuit de Catalunya by several Spanish spectators who wore black face paint and black
2017 Chinese Grand Prix the Chinese Grand Prix (having won previously in 2008, 2011, 2014, and 2015), and the 65th win for Mercedes in their 150th race. With Hamilton winning the race and Vettel in second, the two go to the third race in Bahrain equal in the World Drivers' Championship standings, with 43 points each, but with Mercedes having overtaken Ferrari in the Constructors' Championship. The fastest lap of the race was set by Lewis Hamilton on lap 44 (1:35.378), which was over four seconds faster than Nico Hülkenberg's fastest lap of 1:39.824 in the 2016 race. Hamilton became the second driver, after