Ricciardo took fourth behind Verstappen after a furious late scrap between the two Red Bulls with Raikkonen finishing in fifth ahead of fellow Finn Valtteri Bottas's Mercedes.
Vettel's race here was scuppered by a portion of bad luck. With Vettel changing for dry tyres, the advantage lay with him.
The safety auto was called again after Antonio Giovinazzi smashed his Sauber into a wall.
With Lewis Hamilton and Vettel starting side-by-side on the front row at the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday, the stage was set for a wheel-to-wheel duel between long-dominant Mercedes and a newly competitive Ferrari.
The win puts Hamilton with Vettel in a tie for the drivers championship points lead.
"I think this will be one of the closest [battles for the championship] if not the closest I have experienced", remarked Hamilton.
Vettel, the German driver, has four world championships to Hamilton's three, and the Briton says the two have a mutual respect to congratulate each other's victories, as Vettel did in Shanghai last on Sunday.
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"I think there's stuff that we can do better, must do better, can improve".
"The ultimate fighter always wants the best battle because when you come out on top it's so much more satisfying".
"I gained one or two positions and then.trying to go round the outside in turn one, I got another auto", he added later, taking journalists through his first-lap heroics that won him the fans' vote as driver of the day. "I'm loving this fight!" It is just race two.
Meanwhile, Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel too started to move up the field as he overtook his team mate Kimi Raikkonen on lap 20 and then the Red Bull of Daniel Ricciardo on lap 22. "I had a very exciting race.it was good fun", he added. The damp start brought Red Bull into contention but it seemed likely they would drop behind Ferrari as the track tried out.
Hamilton and Mercedes bounced back from their loss in Australia, while Vettel and Ferrari proved their pace in Melbourne was no fluke.
Despite Ferrari having produced a vehicle that is a match for Mercedes, Raikkonen has yet to get on the podium and has finished both races well behind Sebastian Vettel. "We were matching times so if there wasn't a safety auto at the start it would have been much closer." he added.
"Strength-wise we are stronger, but pace-wise, if anything Ferrari got a bit quicker this weekend and the gap's even closer", said Hamilton, a triple world champion.
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