00:00Racing again, a virtual safety car, I think has, has ended, not quite sure.
00:07It's a double overtake there, unless it comes back around the outside, so.
00:12No, we are still in a virtual safety car.
00:14Yeah.
00:15It's almost they came past our commentary box and it ended.
00:18Max Verstappen's pitted.
00:20He's got rid of the hard tyres, so he's had about a lap on the hard tyres
00:25and decided, no, they are not the ones that we should be running here,
00:28so we'll lose 11 seconds.
00:31So he picked up a front-ride puncture, Max, and that was the reason for the box.
00:34Ah, there you go.
00:36So he had to box because he had a puncture there,
00:38so you lose seconds, the gap out in front.
00:40Oli Behrman is catching Liam Lawson and goes late on the brakes,
00:45slides his way through into Turn 1.
00:47Lovely move for Oli Behrman there,
00:50and at the same time, Max Verstappen makes a move on Lewis Hamilton.
00:54He's done that before,
00:55and that was for the lead of the race here at Interlagos.
00:58This time around, it's for 15th.
01:00Max Verstappen trying to get into 11th place now.
01:03Fernando Alonso, this is going to be an easy pass.
01:06Down the straight, new engine in that red ball.
01:10The crowd going absolutely wild,
01:11as Max Verstappen does pop himself up into now 9th place,
01:16because pitting...
01:17In the top six.
01:18And he was, after lap 12, 16th.
01:22Yeah.
01:23One minute, 15th.
01:25Albon's not defending.
01:27You're absolutely right there, Martin.
01:28Into Turn 1.
01:29Max Verstappen is up into the top five.
01:31Here comes Nicaragua south,
01:32and you can see half of that red ball is getting ever closer,
01:36ever closer, ever closer.
01:38In front of Lando Norris, who pulls to the right-hand side.
01:42Max can't defend that one,
01:43and Lando Norris back up into the top three.
01:46Yeah.
01:47Max in the pits too.
01:49So, after running 27 laps on those mediums,
01:53they're been ahead of Albon as they go into Turn 1.
01:56Max has decided to get rid of those
01:58and come into the pits
01:59and start charging through the field once again.
02:01So that is coming in to...
02:03Now, Ferradura, the horseshoe,
02:07he's leading this race, has yet to pit.
02:09He's the only driver out there who hasn't pitted yet.
02:12Verstappen has just made that move,
02:15and he's got a 10-second penalty, Oscar Piastri,
02:17to serve when he does pit.
02:19They're going...
02:1916 seconds of him,
02:21and taking a half a second a lap out of him.
02:2632 laps.
02:27Yeah.
02:29This...
02:30Verstappen is looking in great shape here for a podium.
02:33Well, he's in second place currently,
02:35behind Lando Norris,
02:36ahead of Oscar Piastri,
02:38because George Russell...
02:39Lando Norris is coming into the pits.
02:40Now is the time they have to get off the soft tyre,
02:43and this has to be a perfect stop
02:45because he's going to come out behind Oscar Piastri
02:47unless I'm very much mistaken,
02:49Crofty,
02:50on a used set of mediums.
02:52That went well, didn't it?
02:53That felt like about two and a half...
02:55Two and a half seconds.
02:562.2.
02:57OK, all right.
02:58Well, that's good work from McLaren.
02:59So McLaren have not had the problems,
03:01and now Norris has to fight for the win
03:04with Verstappen on older tyres,
03:06assuming they'll get Piastri out the way.
03:08They had to make a stop, obviously,
03:10and then they were always going to have to overtake them.
03:13Something I didn't think I'd say, Max,
03:15at the end of the pit lane earlier,
03:17you are now race leader.
03:18Don't rush.
03:20Nobody has ever...
03:21Max Verstappen,
03:22which means that Lando Norris
03:24will retake the lead
03:25of this Sao Paulo Grand Prix,
03:27and when he's been in the lead,
03:28he has looked pretty imperious
03:30throughout this weekend,
03:31let alone this race.
03:33So he just started dropping
03:35into the 14,
03:38one-minute 14s.
03:39He'd had 34 laps on those tyres.
03:42Turn one where Verstappen
03:43is a hell of a lot closer
03:45on this particular occasion,
03:47and he's trying to make his way
03:48up into the top three,
03:49and George Russell
03:50could be a bit vulnerable here.
03:51He's going to have to go
03:52round the outside, Verstappen,
03:54and does swoop round the outside.
03:55He knew exactly
03:57where he had to put his car.
03:59Russell made it hard.
04:01Verstappen made it look easy.
04:02He's up into thirds
04:03after starting from the pit lane.
04:06It's the seventh win in 2025
04:09for the championship leader
04:10who extends his lead out in front.
04:13Lando Norris wins
04:14the Sao Paulo Grand Prix,
04:16but who's going to come second?
04:18Antonelli ahead of Verstappen
04:20for his best Grand Prix finish ever.
04:23Kimi Antonelli
04:24takes second place.
04:25Verstappen from the pit lane
04:27comes home to finish on the podium.
04:29What an effort from him!
04:30It wasn't a walk in the park,
04:32is what he's saying,
04:33and if Max had been
04:34where you'd normally expect him,
04:35sort of front two rows.
04:38No, it's not fair than me.
04:40That's a really, really good race for us.
04:43And we at least try, you know?
04:49And Max Verstappen.
04:51So only the eighth time
04:52in Formula One history
04:53that the drivers finished on the podium
04:55from a pit lane start,
04:56first since Lewis Hamilton did it in Hungary
04:58in 2014.
05:00He's weathered the storm
05:02and come back,
05:03and, you know,
05:04that's a big moment for him
05:05to fend off Verstappen.
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