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F1 Brazilian GP: Verstappen victorious from seventeenth, Norris sixth in Sao Paulo thriller
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F1 Brazilian GP: Verstappen victorious from seventeenth, Norris sixth in Sao Paulo thriller

By Miles Cooper November 4, 2024
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Crimson Bull’s Max Verstappen sensationally gained Formulation 1’s 2024 Brazilian Grand Prix from beginning seventeenth in a moist climate thriller, as his pole-sitting title rival Lando Norris faltered for McLaren.

Alpine scored a superb double podium with Esteban Ocon second and Pierre Gasly third forward of early chief George Russell, which vaults the crew to sixth within the constructors’ standings.

Norris got here dwelling sixth behind Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, however the Briton faces a post-race investigation for a weird aborted begin incident over two hours earlier within the closely disrupted contest.

The primary begin was aborted when Lance Stroll went off at Flip 4 on the formation lap and broken his Aston Martin earlier than getting it beached within the gravel, after which Norris led a number of vehicles off the road once more in response to an “Aborted Begin” message, whereas Verstappen from seventeenth on the grid was amongst a separate group that waited for inexperienced lights earlier than going round once more.

A ten-minute delay then adopted, after which Russell jumped Norris on the run to Flip 1 from second on the grid, whereas Verstappen slalomed his means by a number of vehicles to run eleventh on the finish of the primary lap.

He continued to carve his means by the sphere for many of the first half, with a sequence of daring dives at Flip 1, the place the Dutchman was uber-confident on the brakes in his RB20.

On the entrance, Russell and Norris pulled away from the chasing Yuki Tsunoda, Ocon and Leclerc, however the McLaren may by no means get near make an assault on the main Mercedes.

F1 Brazilian GP: Verstappen victorious from seventeenth, Norris sixth in Sao Paulo thriller

Lando Norris, McLaren MCL38

Picture by: Lubomir Asenov / Motorsport Photographs

By lap 15, Verstappen had reached Leclerc on the finish of the chase group, however he then turned bottled up behind the Ferrari in the same method to Norris.

Leclerc was a shock early stopper with an enormous enhance in rain coming because the clouds bought heavier round lap 24, which eased Verstappen’s progress.

The race was then altered considerably when Nico Hulkenberg spun off solo at Flip 1 with Russell on the twenty seventh tour, which led to a digital security automobile below which a number of vehicles far again within the pack pitted after which the leaders got here in on the finish of the lap 28.

However this was simply because the VSC was ending with the Haas transferring once more after getting pushing help from 4 marshals and so when Ocon and Verstappen stayed out – plus Pierre Gasly from additional again within the different Alpine – they cycled to the lead as Russell and Norris dropped down, together with Tsunoda who had been jumped by Ocon pre-VSC.

The rain was actually coming down at this level, with Norris making the most of Russell’s timidness into Flip 4 on lap 30 to last get by and whereas he shot in direction of Gasly and Verstappen the security automobile was referred to as and the race neutralised.

Below this, Williams’ Franco Colapinto crashed and a close to 25-minute delay ensued – throughout which Ocon, Verstappen and Gasly had been capable of swap to extra intermediates with out dropping their locations and Hulkenberg was black-flagged for being pushed backwards within the Flip 1 runoff and rejoining.

On the restart for the race’s second half, Ocon simply dropped Verstappen after which raced to a 3.3s lead inside a number of excursions.

However Carlos Sainz crashing slowly on lap 39 meant one other security automobile, after which Verstappen brilliantly jumped Ocon at Flip 1 on the restart – regardless of the Alpine showing to as soon as once more initially nail his getaway.

Behind, Norris slid off at Flip 1 below assault from Leclerc, who additionally moved forward of Russell, earlier than the Ferrari driver went off at Flip 4 a number of laps later and ceded fourth again to the early chief.

Verstappen then checked out with a sequence of quickest laps to steer by over three seconds with 20 laps to go, with the Dutchman’s fixed decreasing of the tempo that means he was a whopping 19.3s forward by the flag regardless of the rain briefly getting heavier once more within the closing stage.

Ocon completed a piece forward of Gasly, who held off Russell to the end, with Leclerc fifth and Norris seventh – dropping vital floor to Verstappen, who scored his first GP victory since June’s Spanish race.

Oscar Piastri – who waved Norris by after his team-mate’s second restart off – was seventh on the street by eighth within the outcomes after a 10s penalty he had accrued for colliding Liam Lawson pre-red flag.

Lawson took ninth after holding off Lewis Hamilton and Sergio Perez late on – the RB driver and the second Crimson Bull clashing once more whereas the Mercedes driver was amongst these off the street at varied levels.

Alex Albon didn’t participate on account of his enormous crash in qualifying.

Images from Brazilian GP Qualifying & Race

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