ROUND 21: 🇧🇷 Brazil


FORMULA 1 LENOVO GRANDE PRÊMIO DE SÃO PAULO 2024


Circuit stats


  • Circuit name: Autódromo José Carlos Pace
  • First Grand Prix: 1973
  • Number of laps: 71
  • Circuit Length: 4.309 km
  • Race Distance: 305.879 km
  • Lap record: 1:10.540 Valtteri Bottas (2018)
  • 2023 winner: Max Verstappen

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  • @[email protected]
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    2020 days ago

    A Williams crashing behind the safety car. Classic.

    But I feel bad for them, such an expensive weekend for Williams and no prize whatsoever.

    • LCP
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      20 days ago

      Disastrous weekend for Williams.

      Alpine has the opportunity to earn lots of points and overtake Williams for 8th in the constructor’s championship.

      Edit: They could get 6th in WCC if they maintain 1st and 3rd. Wow.

  • @GreenEngineering3475
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    20 days ago

    Max is out there giving a masterclass on wet weather racing, and Perez is stuck behind Lawson.

    Checo, just retire mate.

    • @[email protected]
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      1120 days ago

      Just putting in fastest lap after fastest lap. In the words of RPM: Max fucks off into the distance.

      • Coelacanth
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        420 days ago

        It’s giving me flashbacks of last year. I can feel the PTSD.

  • TheRealKuni
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    1820 days ago

    I almost preferred being a McLaren fan when they weren’t winning races. Too much disappointment when they have the potential to win titles.

    • Coelacanth
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      520 days ago

      I’ve been rooting for them all season just because I wanted a break from last year’s Verstappen dominance, but you can’t look at the performance of the team this year and say they properly deserve to win the title.

      • TheRealKuni
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        320 days ago

        Every team makes mistakes. They definitely deserve the Constructors’ title.

        But yeah, as a team I don’t think they’ve done enough to earn the Drivers’ title.

        • Coelacanth
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          220 days ago

          Today’s McLaren are like Ferrari of old, the amount of mistakes they make is way too high. The bar is Red Bull right now and they make maybe one or two mistakes per season, not per session.

  • @DV8
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    1520 days ago

    17 to 1st, even under the conditions is amazing. What a race by Verstappen.

    • @Luvs2Spuj
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      320 days ago

      We can always rely on one thing when the stewards are involved: someone will be unhappy.

  • Coelacanth
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    1220 days ago

    Norris about to add re-starts to his miserable record on race starts?

  • @espentan
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    1120 days ago

    “terrible luck for Stroll…”

    Well, it’s not all due to a lack of luck, is it…

    • @[email protected]
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      620 days ago

      Right, my first reaction to that was “I don’t see how luck has anything to do with this…”

  • LCP
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    1120 days ago

    Another lead for Norris lost in lap 1 :(

    Verstappen already up to 10th and out for blood.

    • @wurstgulasch3000
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      620 days ago

      Perez all the way up to 18th too, just one spot behind Sainz who started from the pit lane

      • @[email protected]
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        520 days ago

        At least he was kind enough to make a training video for Stroll on how to get back on track after a spin.

    • @DV8
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      320 days ago

      To be fair to Norris he knows he just needs to not crash and stay ahead of Max. Russell knew that and just needed to start well enough to make him nervous.

      He’s not really lost time to Russell and seems to be catching up now (lap 13). I suppose he’ll try to pass if Max gets to p5 or p4.

      • LCP
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        520 days ago

        With Norris in 2nd and Verstappen currently in 6th with fastest lap there’s a 9 point difference.

        To close the 44 point gap Norris needs to outscore him by more than 11 points each race (not including the Qatar sprint).

  • @[email protected]
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    20 days ago

    Absolute masterclass from max and red bull. Hamilton 2021 esque.

    Clearly proving that he is the best driver of the season even though he no longer has the fastest car

    • Coelacanth
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      720 days ago

      It’s a shame we won’t be able to maintain the title fight delusion anymore for the rest of the season, but this was a cold shower for McLaren - both literally and figuratively. Neither the race strategists nor drivers are of a high enough calibre, and it’s really a shame since the mechanics, designers and factory workers have been amazing. Trying to root for them this season has been so damn frustrating it’s starting to make me feel hostile emotions about them.

      • @[email protected]
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        720 days ago

        Well the mechanics, designers, engineers and factory personnel will be rewarded with the constructors championship. The pitwall and the drivers will rightly not be rewarded with a drivers championship.

        • Coelacanth
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          120 days ago

          Do you know if they value the WCC more, or if they (like the common crowd) put a higher value on the WDC?

          • @wurstgulasch3000
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            20 days ago

            The WCC comes with a cash price, WDC does not. Also the team built the car, they did not build Lando

      • @rishado
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        119 days ago

        Absolutely brain dead from McLaren and Mercedes, I mean I don’t even understand what the thought was here. It was lose lose

  • @[email protected]
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    1020 days ago

    Imagine being An Aston Martin mechanic working your ass off to repair the car in no time just to see the driver bin it in the formation lap.

  • LCP
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    920 days ago

    What a day. What a drive by Verstappen.

    Alpine leapfrogging to P6 in the WCC. Incredible.