Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has already won 17 times this season. Fernando Alonso and Sergio Perez fought fiercely for third place.
Over the years, the race in Brazil has been one of the most colorful races in the F1 series. Among other things, the track has seen memorable World Cup solutions.
Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen became world champion in the final race of 2007 by one point before the McLaren drivers. A year later, the World Championship title was secured by McLaren at the last corner For Lewis Hamilton the winner of the race Felipe Massa losing bitterly.
However, this year’s competition in Brazil was very unsurprising in terms of events. Just like Saturday’s sprint race, Red Bull gassed for victory Max Verstappen. First place was the 17th of the season for the 26-year-old Dutchman in the actual race.
He rose in the all-time victory table French legend Alain Prostin over to fourth place.
In only three races has he been without first place. Verstappen has only been outside the top three in Singapore, where he was fourth.
Härdell on the warm-up lap
The runner-up of the race was the brilliant McLaren from the end of the season Lando Norris. The 23-year-old British driver got off to a great start in the opening lap, finishing sixth in the grid. Second place is Norris’s sixth of the season.
Norris has a total of seven podium finishes this season, his most in a single season.
Third in the race was the 42-year-old from Aston Martin Fernando Alonso, who took the podium after a break of seven races. At the end, he had a merciless battle for third place with Red Bull by Sergio Perez with.
Alonso barely crossed the finish line before Perez. The Mexican has not been on the podium in the last six races of the season. The Red Bull star has been under heavy criticism lately.
To have been in 11th place Valtteri Bottas the race ended with a technical failure of the car on lap 41.
The F1 race got off to a confusing start already in the warm-up lap, when the runner who finished second in qualifying Charles Leclerc The Ferrari slipped into the tire embankment. The Monaco’s car was damaged so badly that he had to stop.
At the start itself, Williams started from the tail of the group Alexander Albon and Haas Kevin Magnussen collided with each other. The impact caused the safety car to come onto the track and the red flags that immediately stopped the race. After this, the race was suspended for half an hour.