Serenity at the front for Oscar Piastri. Victory from pole in China for the Australian. And another day of turbulence in paradise for Lewis Hamilton.

Lando Norris finished second, extending his world championship lead to eight after two rounds, with George Russell third for Mercedes.

Perhaps it was an improvement on his fortunes in Melbourne a week before, when he finished 10th. But not much. Again, he clashed with his race engineer Riccardo Adami, and had to make way to let his team-mate Charles Leclerc through.