2024 São Paulo Grand Prix - Interlagos, Nov 01 - 03 Sportsbook Motor Sport

[Tom]

Friday 1st
Practice - 14.30 - 15.30.
Sprint Qualification - 18.30 - 19.14

Saturday 2nd
Sprint Race - 14.00 - 15.00
Qualification - 18.00 - 19.00

Sunday 3rd
Race - 17.00

 

[Franco Pinion]

Max Verstappen has been hit with a five-place grid penalty for Sunday's Sao Paulo Grand Prix after Red Bull put new engine in his car.

 

[Son Of Jack]

São Paulo Grand Prix - Sprint qualifying results

Oscar Piastri led Lando Norris to a McLaren one-two in sprint qualifying at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.

Norris' title rival Max Verstappen could manage only fourth place in his Red Bull, behind Ferrari's Charles Leclerc.

The result of sprint qualifying gives Norris an opportunity to claw back a small amount of points on Verstappen in Saturday's sprint event, in which there are eight points for a win, seven for second and so on down to eighth.

Pos	Driver	Team	SQ1	SQ2	SQ3
1	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	1:10.265s	1:09.239s	1:08.899s
2	Lando Norris	McLaren	1:09.477s	1:09.063s	1:08.928s
3	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1:10.388s	1:09.248s	1:09.153s
4	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1:10.409s	1:09.489s	1:09.219s
5	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	1:10.503s	1:09.500s	1:09.257s
6	George Russell	Mercedes	1:10.479s	1:09.683s	1:09.443s
7	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	1:10.630s	1:09.610s	1:09.622s
8	Liam Lawson	RB	1:10.576s	1:09.827s	1:09.941s
9	Alexander Albon	Williams	1:10.366s	1:09.844s	1:10.078s
10	Oliver Bearman	Haas	1:10.442s	1:09.629s
11	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:10.625s	1:09.941s
12	Nico Hülkenberg	Haas	1:10.466s	1:09.964s
13	Sergio Pérez	Red Bull	1:10.392s	1:10.024s
14	Franco Colapinto	Williams	1:10.470s	1:10.275s
15	Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	1:10.861s	1:10.595s
16	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	1:10.978s
17	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	1:11.052s
18	Yuki Tsunoda	RB	1:11.121s
19	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	1:11.280s
20	Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	1:12.978s

Decent chance that Norris picks up some serious catch up points this weekend.

 

[Son Of Jack]

Lando Norris wins the Sao Paulo Grand Prix sprint race!

McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri, who started on pole position and moved aside to let Norris through, finishes second and Max Verstappen goes from fourth place to end his sprint in third.

Max Verstappen has been noted by race control for a virtual safety car infringement.

 

[Son Of Jack]

5 second penalty and one penalty point for Max.

"The driver was 0.63 seconds below the minimum time at VSC End when the FIA light panels changed to green. This indicates a sporting advantage gained under VSC."

Drops him down to 4th place for the sprint race.

 

[Snoops]

A penalty point for that is a bit ridiculous

 

[Tom]

No qualifying today due to very heavy rain. They will try again in the morning. There is a lot of rain forecast in the next 24 hours.

 

[Tom]

Qualifying has been scheduled for 07:30 local time (10:30 UK) and the race moved forward by an hour and a half to 12:30 local (15:30 UK) because of the forecast of more wet weather on Sunday.

 

[Son Of Jack]

McLaren's Lando Norris takes pole position for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix in a chaotic, crash-strewn qualifying session in which Max Verstappen was 12th.

The Red Bull driver has a five-place grid penalty for the grand prix later on Sunday so will start 17th, although he may vault up if some of the damaged cars cannot start the race.

Mercedes driver George Russell snatched second place alongside Norris, with the RB of Yuki Tsunoda third, ahead of Alpine's Esteban Ocon and RB's Liam Lawson.

The session was punctuated by five red flags for heavy crashes involving, in order, Williams' Franco Colapinto, Ferrari's Carlos Sainz, both Aston Martin drivers Lance Stroll and Fernando Alonso, and Williams' Alex Albon.

 

[Snoops]

 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1853064949989318907

I bet that was a beast to drive in the wet weather