Victory for Mercedes as was predicted ahead of the weekend, but it was an interesting race in the middle stint. We saw Hamilton back Rosberg into Vettel and that might just create a bit of friction in the Mercedes camp in the week ahead of the next race in Bahrain.

Make sure you join us in Bahrain for more F1 action next week. We'll also have all of the reaction from today's race both in the Mercedes camp in reaction to Hamilton and the Ferrari camp in reaction to the return to being the best of the rest.

Lap 56

Crunch, snap, bang... The Toro Rosso is still being manhandled through the gap in the pit wall.

The leaders start the final lap behind the safety car, it looks like we will finish with three Mercedes at the front of the pack.

I tell a lie, the safety car is coming in this lap. No overtaking so the order you see now is how the cars will finish the Chinese Grand Prix.

Lewis Hamilton crosses the line to take his second win of the season ahead of Rosberg, Vettel, Raikkonen, Massa, Bottas, Grosjean, Nasr, Ricciardo and Ericsson.

Perez and Alonso finish just outside the points. Button, Sainz, Stevens and Merhi complete the finishing order. Good to see two McLarens and two Manors make the chequered flag.

Lap 55

Hamilton starts the penultimate lap. Ferrari are in the pits - very odd. Maybe a puncture for one of the cars...

Both Ferraris stayed out, so panic over for the Scuderia.

Some trouble moving the Toro Rosso as the rear wheels were locked. It's smoking pretty bad and now they have crashed it into the gap in the pit wall. What a farce

Lap 54

Verstappen has stopped on the pit straight with what looks like an engine problem.

Safety car deployed to to get rid of that stricken Toro Rosso. Listening to the on board it sounded like the Renault V6 fully lunched itself before locking up the transmission and grinding to a halt. A shame for Verstappen, who was eighth after a strong afternoon.

Lap 53

Raikkonen gets the gap down to 1.6s now despite some problems getting past Perez.

Rosberg is now 7.3s off Hamilton, so appears to have handed the victory two his team-mate. Hamilton is now 19.2s clear of Vettel, which is a fair representation of the advantage Mercedes has held here.

Lap 52

This time Maldonado comes into the pits and retires his Lotus. The end to a very disappointing afternoon, that without the spins and brake problems should have ended in the points.

Raikkonen takes abother two tenths out of Vettel and they now look visibly much closer on track.