Briton Lewis Hamilton will start first in the sprint race this Saturday (13th), at 16:30h, at the Interlagos racetrack, which will set the starting grid for the São Paulo GP on Sunday (14), at 14h.
Vice-leader of the F1 World Championship, the Mercedes driver had the best time in qualifying this Friday (12), with 1min7s934.
Season leader Max Verstappen from Red Bull will start in second. His time was 1min8s372. Valteri Bottas, from Mercedes, starts in third, and Sergio Pérez, from Red Bull, completes the first two rows, in fourth.
Hamilton was highly applauded by the fans present. And he left satisfied with the achieved result.
“I’m really happy to be back in Brazil. It’s been so hard going from one race to another, but today was a super good qualifying day, I’m super happy about it. “Hamilton stated.
The penalty he is referring to will be the loss of five grid positions for Sunday’s race after having to change the combustion engine in his Mercedes.
Aware of the punishment his rival will face, Verstappen was also pleased with second place in the sprint race and said his focus is on winning on Sunday. “The second is a good starting position. There aren’t a lot of points to gain in the sprint so I just plan to do a good first lap and look forward to Sunday.”
This will be the first year that the Brazilian stage will receive the new starting grid definition format. The order of the pilots on the track will be defined in the sprint race —with around 24 laps— which will take place this Saturday (13th). The complete race will be played on Sunday, with broadcast by Band.
In 2019, Max Verstappen took pole and won the race in the city of São Paulo — in 2020 Brazil ended up outside the F1 calendar because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
`The first day with cars on the track in this F1 return to the country received a good audience in Interlagos.
The event organizers will only release the total number of attendees at the end of the three days of the São Paulo GP, but it was possible to notice the stands full even with the cold of the 16th at around 4 pm, when the qualifying training for the sprint race began — the total capacity of the racecourse is 60 thousand people.
With the championship drawing to a close, every advantage in starting positions makes a difference. That’s why the audience was present to watch another dispute between Max Verstappen, from Red Bull, and Lewis Hamilton, from Mercedes, leader and vice-leader of the World Cup, respectively, separated by 19 points — (312.5 against 293.5) .
After Brazil, the championship will have three more competitions: Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.
In the sprint race, only the top three places receive points: the first one gets three points, the second one gets two, and the third one gets one point.
In addition to the Band, F1 announced this Friday (12) that the match this Saturday (13) will be broadcast by the streamer channel Gaules on Twitch.
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