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2019 Brazilian Grand Prix

The 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Heineken Grande Prêmio do Brasil 2019) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 17 November 2019 at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo, Brazil. The race was the twentieth and penultimate round of the 2019 FIA Formula One World Championship. The race marked the 47th time the race had been run as a World Championship event since the first championship event in 1973, and the 48th time the race had been run overall.

2019 Brazilian Grand Prix
Race 20 of 21 in the 2019 Formula One World Championship
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Layout of the Autódromo José Carlos Pace
Race details[1]
Date 17 November 2019
Official name Formula 1 Heineken Grande Prêmio do Brasil 2019
Location Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo, Brazil
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 4.309 km (2.677 miles)
Distance 71 laps, 305.879 km (190.064 miles)
Weather Sunny
Pole position
Driver
Red Bull Racing-Honda
Time 1:07.508
Fastest lap
Driver Finland Valtteri Bottas Mercedes
Time 1:10.698 on lap 43
Podium
First
Red Bull Racing-Honda
Second
Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda
Third
McLaren-Renault
Lap leaders

The race was won by Max Verstappen with Pierre Gasly and Carlos Sainz Jr. taking their first podiums in second and third respectively. Sainz also scored McLaren's first podium since 2014, while Gasly's podium turned out to be the last for Toro Rosso in Formula One.

Background

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Entrants

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Further information: 2019 Formula One World Championship § Entries

The drivers and teams were the same as the season entry list with no additional stand-in drivers for the race. However, Nicholas Latifi drove in the first practice session for Williams, replacing Robert Kubica.[2]

Qualifying

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Qualifying classification

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Pos. No. Driver Constructor Qualifying times Final
grid
Q1 Q2 Q3
1 33   Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-Honda 1:08.242 1:07.503 1:07.508 1
2 5   Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1:08.556 1:08.050 1:07.631 2
3 44   Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:08.614 1:08.088 1:07.699 3
4 16   Charles Leclerc Ferrari 1:08.496 1:07.888 1:07.728 141
5 77   Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 1:08.545 1:08.232 1:07.874 4
6 23   Alexander Albon Red Bull Racing-Honda 1:08.503 1:08.117 1:07.935 5
7 10   Pierre Gasly Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda 1:08.909 1:08.770 1:08.837 6
8 8   Romain Grosjean Haas-Ferrari 1:09.197 1:08.705 1:08.854 7
9 7   Kimi Räikkönen Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari 1:09.276 1:08.858 1:08.984 8
10 20   Kevin Magnussen Haas-Ferrari 1:08.875 1:08.803 1:09.037 9
11 4   Lando Norris McLaren-Renault 1:08.891 1:08.868 N/A 10
12 3   Daniel Ricciardo Renault 1:09.086 1:08.903 N/A 11
13 99   Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari 1:09.175 1:08.919 N/A 12
14 27   Nico Hülkenberg Renault 1:09.050 1:08.921 N/A 13
15 11   Sergio Pérez Racing Point-BWT Mercedes 1:09.288 1:09.035 N/A 15
16 26   Daniil Kvyat Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda 1:09.320 N/A N/A 16
17 18   Lance Stroll Racing Point-BWT Mercedes 1:09.536 N/A N/A 17
18 63   George Russell Williams-Mercedes 1:10.126 N/A N/A 18
19 88   Robert Kubica Williams-Mercedes 1:10.614 N/A N/A 19
107% time: 1:13.018
— 55   Carlos Sainz Jr. McLaren-Renault No time N/A N/A 202
Source:[3][4]
Notes
  • ^1 – Charles Leclerc received a 10-place grid penalty for exceeding his quota for power unit components.[5]
  • ^2 – Carlos Sainz Jr. failed to set a Q1 time. He was allowed to race at the stewards discretion.[4]

Race

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Max Verstappen maintained his lead down into the first corner, while just behind, Lewis Hamilton overtook Sebastian Vettel for second. Apart from a few minor changes in the midfield, and Charles Leclerc steadily making upwards progress from fourteenth on the grid, the order remained generally stable for the first few laps. On lap 9 Daniel Ricciardo attempted an overtake on Kevin Magnussen, but Ricciardo locked his tyres, causing a collision which resulted in Magnussen going into a spin and Ricciardo suffering damage to his front wing. Ricciardo was later given a five-second time penalty for the incident. By lap 11 Leclerc had made his way up to sixth place.

By lap 18 the soft tyres were generally running out of life with Sergio Pérez the first to stop the following lap. On lap 20 Mercedes pitted Hamilton, hoping to undercut Verstappen. The next lap, Red Bull pitted Verstappen to try to cover off Hamilton. The pit stop broke the record for fastest pit stop with a time of 1.82 seconds, beating the previous time of 1.88 seconds which was made during the 2019 German Grand Prix.[6] As Verstappen exited the pits the Williams of Robert Kubica pulled out in front of him, forcing the Red Bull to take evasive action; this resulted in Verstappen losing time and falling behind Hamilton. Verstappen and Hamilton quickly passed Leclerc, before Verstappen overtook Hamilton into turn 1. The two then passed Alexander Albon, Valtteri Bottas, and Vettel, who all pitted. At this point in the race, the cars outside the top six ran: Pierre Gasly, Kimi Räikkönen, Antonio Giovinazzi, and Sergio Pérez rounding out the top ten.

Over the next dozen of laps the wind started to pick up in speed. On lap 42 Bottas pitted for hard tyres, with his teammate, Hamilton, pitting two laps later to go onto the mediums. On lap 45 Verstappen pitted to prevent the undercut attempt from Hamilton. Further back, Bottas was unable to find a way past the Ferrari of Leclerc. Bottas retired on lap 52 with a hydraulics problem. His stopped car was adjudged to need a safety car to retrieve, initiating a round of pit stops. Hamilton was told to do the opposite of Verstappen, and so Hamilton stayed out whereas Verstappen pitted.

Further back, Leclerc and George Russell also pitted and any lapped cars were allowed to unlap themselves forcing the safety car to stay out for another couple of laps. At the restart, the order of the top ten was as follows: Hamilton, Verstappen, Vettel, Albon, Leclerc, Gasly, Romain Grosjean, Carlos Sainz, Räikkönen and Giovinazzi. Verstappen managed to overtake Hamilton into turn 1. Further back, the other Red Bull of Albon overtook Vettel for third, while Grosjean in the Haas started to have problems with his car, causing him to drop back. On lap 66 Leclerc overtook Vettel in turn 1, but Vettel, on the back straight, tried to take the position back. The two collided, with Leclerc suffering a broken suspension and Vettel getting a puncture. Both Ferraris retired from the race with terminal damage, and the safety car was called out again.

Mercedes then pitted Hamilton, still on lap 66, onto fresh soft tyres. This put him in line behind the safety car in fourth position, ahead of the McLaren of Sainz, but behind the Red Bulls of Verstappen and Albon, and the Toro Rosso of Gasly. During the safety car, Lance Stroll retired with front suspension damage. At the race restart, on lap 70, Hamilton passed Gasly, but later made contact with Albon while trying to pass him at turn 10. Albon was sent into a spin and was forced to rejoin the field in fifteenth position. Hamilton, too, was slowed by the contact, allowing Gasly to pass into second place. Verstappen came home to win his third race of the season. Six seconds behind him, Gasly beat Hamilton for second place by 0.062 seconds, meaning that this was the first time since 1991 that drivers using Honda-powered cars finished 1–2.[7] Sainz, two seconds behind them both, finished fourth.

Post race

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Max Verstappen, Pierre Gasly and Lewis Hamilton (subsequently penalised) on the podium.

As the final lap of the race was being run, a stewards investigation was announced concerning the Hamilton–Albon incident on lap 70. The podium ceremony was run with Verstappen, Gasly, and Hamilton, but with the investigation ongoing for Hamilton. The stewards summoned Hamilton and Albon and Hamilton was given a five-second time penalty which dropped him from third to seventh. His penalty promoted Sainz to third, representing Sainz's first podium finish (although Sainz was not present at the podium ceremony), McLaren's first since the 2014 Australian Grand Prix and also setting a new record for the youngest combined podium age, beating the 2008 Italian Grand Prix.[8][9] The race was the first since the 1994 German Grand Prix in which two drivers scored their first podiums in Formula One.[10] The race also marked the first time in the turbo-hybrid era, introduced in 2014, and the first time since the 2013 United States Grand Prix, that the final podium trio did not feature a Mercedes or Ferrari driver.[11] This race also meant that all 3 drivers on the podium were graduates of the Red Bull Junior Team programme.[citation needed] Carlos Sainz Jr.'s podium finish meant that he was the first Spanish driver to step on the podium since Fernando Alonso finished second at the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix.[citation needed] Gasly's podium turned out to be the last for Scuderia Toro Rosso in Formula One before being rebranded to Scuderia AlphaTauri for the next season.

Race classification

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Pos. No. Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 33   Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-Honda 71 1:33:14.678 1 25
2 10   Pierre Gasly Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda 71 +6.077 6 18
3 55   Carlos Sainz Jr. McLaren-Renault 71 +8.896 20 15
4 7   Kimi Räikkönen Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari 71 +9.452 8 12
5 99   Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari 71 +10.201 12 10
6 3   Daniel Ricciardo Renault 71 +10.541 11 8
7 44   Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 71 +11.1391 3 6
8 4   Lando Norris McLaren-Renault 71 +11.204 10 4
9 11   Sergio Pérez Racing Point-BWT Mercedes 71 +11.529 15 2
10 26   Daniil Kvyat Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda 71 +11.931 16 1
11 20   Kevin Magnussen Haas-Ferrari 71 +12.732 9
12 63   George Russell Williams-Mercedes 71 +13.599 18
13 8   Romain Grosjean Haas-Ferrari 71 +14.247 7
14 23   Alexander Albon Red Bull Racing-Honda 71 +14.927 5
15 27   Nico Hülkenberg Renault 71 +18.0592 13
16 88   Robert Kubica Williams-Mercedes 70 +1 lap 19
173 5   Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 65 Collision 2
183 16   Charles Leclerc Ferrari 65 Collision 14
193 18   Lance Stroll Racing Point-BWT Mercedes 65 Suspension 17
Ret 77   Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 51 Oil pressure 4
Fastest lap:   Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) – 1:10.698 (lap 43)
Source:[4][12][13][14]
Notes

Championship standings after the race

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  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
  • Bold text and an asterisk indicates the 2019 World Champions.

References

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  1. ^ "Brazil". Formula1.com. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  2. ^ "2019 Brazilian Grand Prix – Entry List". Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  3. ^ "Formula 1 Heineken Grande Prêmio do Brasil 2019 – Qualifying". F1. 16 November 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  4. ^ a b c "Formula 1 Heineken Grande Prêmio do Brasil 2019 – Starting Grid". F1. 16 November 2019. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  5. ^ "Fresh engine means Brazil grid penalty for Leclerc". Formula1.com. 12 November 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  6. ^ "Formula 1 DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award". 17 November 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  7. ^ "Brazil Facts and Stats: A race of highs for Honda". Formula1.com. 17 November 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  8. ^ "Brazil Facts and Stats: A race of highs for Honda". Formula1.com. 17 November 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  9. ^ "New podium record established! Brazil 2019 trumps Monza 2008 for youngest F1 podium". Formula1.com. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  10. ^ "McLaren end longest-ever 2,000-day wait for podium result". racefans.net. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  11. ^ Slater, Luke (18 November 2019). "Brazilian Grand Prix: How a chaotic dead rubber produced F1's best result in years". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  12. ^ a b c "Formula 1 Heineken Grande Prêmio do Brasil 2019 – Race Result". F1. 17 November 2019. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  13. ^ "Formula 1 Heineken Grande Prêmio do Brasil 2019 – Fastest Laps". F1. 17 November 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  14. ^ "Brazil 2019 – Result". StatsF1. 17 November 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  15. ^ "Sainz takes maiden podium as Hamilton handed post-race penalty for Albon clash". F1. 17 November 2019. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  16. ^ a b "Brazil 2019 – Championship". StatsF1. 17 November 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
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