ROUND 21: Brazil 🇧🇷
FORMULA 1 ROLEX GRANDE PRÊMIO DE SÃO PAULO 2023
Circuit stats
- 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 (2021)
- 2022 winner: George Russel
Track Map
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Throw away all the oil money race tracks and have multiple races here
Probably my favorite race of the year, even though it was only a sprint. That brings my hopes up for tomorrow’s race a lot.
Alpha Tauri looking good for the real race tomorrow.
Absolutely. And RIC is driving really well. He’s back! :D
Max and Lando went into the sunset
Best pace of the race from both
What an absolute stonker of a race! Possibly the best sprint this year. Hopefully the main race is also this entertaining!
Hats off to the direction and F1tv commentary!
Amazing how good are the Alpha Tauris at nursing the tires
Yeah, Yuki was a few tenths of a second faster than LeClerc in the last few laps after following LeClerc for the entire race. A few more laps and Yuki would’ve had a good chance to overtake LeClerc, which is insane to think about.
It was amusing to see Yuki be cautious this time, after the Mexico course-out. Just tried a little against Lewis and then backed down, anticipating he’ll overtake him later easily. In Mexico he made that exact mistake. A beautiful rhyme.
Yes Yuki
He somehow managed to keep the same pace as LeClerc and pull away from Sainz. And the AT’s tire degradation is clearly better than Ferrari’s. He was a few tenths faster than LeClerc in the last couple of laps. Another 3 laps and he would’ve been ahead.
This sprint race might be the best of any race this season so far. So much going on.
Is this what happens when you take ‘managing’ down in importance?
they were still managing the wear on those softs, it would’ve been a different race if they hadn’t
OK, that was a sick pass of Perez by Hamilton. Goddamn.
Perez better pick it up.
Pretty exciting so far. Lots of close racing and overtaking.
Absolutely! Even before DRS there was a ton of action.
Ferraris: “Tasty tires! Nom, nom, nom!”
Those with some tire left must now push
Now this is pretty exciting
What a race
I’m liking that Checo is proving on track that he can be the best number 2. Vamos Checo!
He was closest to his team mate?
He gained positions, kept it clean and widened the gap with Hamilton. Which is what he needs to do.
Ahh you mean number 2 in championship, not a number 2 driver.
I agree he put in a strong race, but I suspect his goose is cooked at this point. It’s surely too late when you’ve got Ric, Law and Tsu all waiting eagerly in the wings.
If he can consistently finish 2-4 and qualify better, he can help play pit games. That’s all that’s needed to keep his spot. I don’t think Tsunoda or Lawson are safe choices so he’d need to do many mistakes like in Mexico before that could become real imho.
You may well be right. I guess Tsuonda and Lawson would probably fare no better fundamentally and lack Perez’s experience, but an on-form Ricciardo is a juicy prospect, surely?
Yeah, but if Perez can prove himself a known, consistent variable, I don’t think it would make sense to switch it up. Neither would be a future WC so they need reliability from day 1 in 2024.
Am I crazy or is it way too advantageous to start second? Verstappen had the best line…
This isn’t a bad place to start second, but Max had a bit better start and Lando was perhaps a bit too cautious with breaks going into the first corner.
Some tracks are like that, but I suppose we’ll see what happens in the real race tomorrow. Though this practice/sprint race tends to ruin any surprises.
Norris could have moved over to cover verstappen off. For some reason he was too late.
Some tracks are like that, first isn’t always best unless you have the acceleration speed to keep ahead
