The race restarted, Piastri attacked Antonelli and Leclerc in the first corner, he threw himself into the Italian closing the line. Piastri had no space and hit Antonelli who bounced towards Leclerc
Hamilton has changed his face and now he has to roll up his sleeves and find his ultimate self
Hamilton made contact with Sainz at the first corner, lost position and while trying to recover by overtaking Colapinto’s Alpine, damaged his nose.
Bortoleto attempted a useless maneuver on Stroll and paid the consequences by crashing into the barrier.
His first weekend at home was a disaster: a crash on Saturday at the Sprint race and now this outing.
Norris started well, immediately threatened by Antonelli and Leclerc, then Piastri Hadjar Lawson Russell Bearman Gasly and Alonso in the top 10. Disaster start for Hamilton who damaged the front wing
The reconnaissance tour begins
Verstappen started from the pitlane (16th in qualifying) due to changing the power unit. Ocon also started from the pitlane
Let’s look at the tire options: hard for Stroll, Alonso, Verstappen, Ocon; average for Norris Leclerc Piastri Russell Hulkenberg Albon Colapinto. Antonelli has the soft ability to immediately launch attacks. Like him too is Hadjar Lawson Bearman Gasly Hamilton Sainz Bortoleto.
It doesn’t rain in Sao Paulo, but the temperature is only 18 degrees
It’s a great day for the colors of Italian motorsport. Andrea Kimi Antonelli he will start from the front row at the Brazilian GP at the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo. A real event because it hasn’t happened in a long time 16 years, from the 2009 Suzuka GP when Jarno Trulywith Toyota, starting from second position in the front row behind Sebastian’s Red Bull Vettel.
Then, a long spell was broken by this 19-year-old, who turned 19 last August, who was in his first year in F1 and was thrown into the fray by Mercedes, by Toto Wolff who really believed in him. Antonelli was only beaten by Lando in qualifying Norriswith McLaren-Mercedesworld championship leader and who has a great chance of getting a further Oscar Platesecond in the championship, 9 points behind. Piastri started fourth, in the second row, and next to him was Charles’ Ferrari Leclerc.
The Monegasque player, who is very skilled at organizing qualifiers, does not hide that he will do everything possible to attack Antonelli And Norrisdoes not hide that he dreams of victory. Further back Lewis Hamilton13th, while Max Verstappen, who put himself forward as a third wheel in the world title race after a good performance in the last race, was wrecked in Sao Paulo in his Red Bull. Only occupying 16th position in qualifying, he chose to start from the pits to replace the Honda power unit.
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