The Complete 2008 Chinese GP Review
A thorough review of all the events and results from round 17 of the season
With just a week to recover from the crushing disappointments of Fuji, with a cacophony of criticism from current rivals, former stars and pundits filling the newspapers, and with time fast running out in this year's championship battle, Lewis Hamilton had to do something special in China to get his season back on course.
And he could hardly have responded any better to the challenges facing him.
Hamilton dominated practice, qualifying and the race, his controlled performance a complete inversion of his anarchic approach to the Japanese Grand Prix. It certainly helped that McLaren had the edge on Ferrari in Shanghai, but given recent events it would have been so easy to let the pressure intervene again - and he didn't.
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