Lewis Hamilton won the Chinese Grand Prix quite convincingly in the end, making up for the defeat Mercedes suffered at Ferrari's hands in Australia, and tying Sebastian Vettel for the lead of the Formula 1 world championship.
But Hamilton was fortunate he didn't need to work much harder for F1's Shanghai prize.
It's likely he would have faced a much more serious threat from Vettel - for the second race in a row - had the Ferrari driver not spent most of this one making up for time lost as a result of the struggles of Ferrari's two other drivers.