00:00And we're ready, and we are set, for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
00:05It's round 19, it's lights out, and away we go.
00:07Bottas gets away well ahead of Verstappen, but Verstappen is coming back at him,
00:11and Lando Norris touches, and he's got a puncture on his rear left tyre
00:14as he clashed with a Ferrari.
00:16Verstappen takes the lead.
00:18He's squeezed out Valtteri, Bottas goes through turn two.
00:20Perez is in third, then comes the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc
00:24as we head down the Retro Apostle now, and he's getting a decent slipstream.
00:28It's Charles Leclerc, but he's been forced over to the left-hand side.
00:31It's Verstappen leads from Bottas, from Perez, Leclerc, and then Sainz,
00:34and the Timurais going wide, and Bottas as well.
00:37Bottas wide, it's a Red Bull 1-2 there, so down into the tricky breakings,
00:43and it's downhill into turn four, and Valtteri Bottas defending hard,
00:47but somehow they all made it through there.
00:49Sadly for Lando Norris, he's got the entire lap to go with a puncture.
00:53Hamilton is up to seventh, we saw him through Ferradura passing there,
00:56Pierre Gasly.
00:57Yeah, I could do nothing to avoid that over there.
01:00I could twist.
01:02Full throttle, full blast, all the way to turn one,
01:05and he is gaining, gaining, gaining in the slipstream of Carlos Sainz.
01:09Pulls over to the inside, Sainz isn't going to fight that one,
01:12and Hamilton, if he is to win this race in the space of two laps,
01:16has halved the arrears that he needs to.
01:19Yuki Tsunoda going down the inside, but there just wasn't the space,
01:22and that's a lot of bodywork coming off there.
01:25Yeah, he wasn't looking at all.
01:28So, invert the cars in turn one.
01:30That was Valtteri slowing down and obeying those team orders.
01:33Yes, and he had slowed down a lot, didn't he?
01:36So, he's side by side there, little touch, gets a bit trigger-happy with the throttle,
01:42and that's where the wing's gone.
01:45And he's just trying to break the slipstream now, moving around a lot,
01:49probably a bit too much, if the truth be known.
01:51And there's Hamilton, but trying to go down the outside,
01:54is he going to sweep through?
01:55Can he keep it on the road?
01:57He can, he's done it!
01:58Hamilton, who's been making a habit of going down the inside into turn one,
02:02this time dances around the outside, and he has done it.
02:05He's cleared Sergio Perez, who's got now DRS, to try and fight his way back.
02:10They're going to go wheel-to-wheel into Ciro de Lago, and Sergio Perez repasses Lewis Hamilton
02:15and reclaims that second place.
02:18Inside, outside, outside, inside.
02:20Which way is Lewis Hamilton going to go?
02:22To the left, to the right, it's going to be to the right,
02:24it's going to be round the outsides.
02:26And for the second lap, running the crowd,
02:28cheer as Lewis Hamilton passes Sergio Perez.
02:31This time around, he looks a bit further ahead,
02:33through the Curva del Sol, to try and stay ahead.
02:37More debris coming off, the Aston Martin of Lance stroll.
02:42Bottas is coming into the pits.
02:44Cheap stop for him, isn't it?
02:45Very cheap stop.
02:46How is this going to work out for him?
02:48Well, it's going to get him ahead of Sergio Perez, that is for sure.
02:52Here comes Hamilton, on Max Verstappen, down towards turn one.
02:56Verstappen moved and cut out any possibility of an overtake down the inside.
03:01Yeah, but Hamilton will get another helping of the DRS down this back straight.
03:05There it goes.
03:06And crucially, Martini is closer than he was on the previous lap.
03:09And here goes Lewis Hamilton.
03:11He was last at the start of the sprint.
03:13He's trying to take the lead from Verstappen,
03:15but he is forced wide by Verstappen,
03:16and Verstappen himself has to go off the track.
03:19Did Verstappen drive Hamilton off the track?
03:22He didn't run into him, but Mercedes will think that.
03:25Michael, that is all about letting them race.
03:28That's all about letting them race.
03:30No investigation necessary.
03:33They're satisfied in the Stuart's room that Verstappen did nothing wrong.
03:38So, Lewis, apparently no investigation necessary for running you off track.
03:42Of course, man. Of course.
03:45It's not working out for Mercedes at the moment.
03:47Do you stop Hamilton?
03:49Well, let's see what happens here.
03:50Just wondering if it's not been working out.
03:53Do Mercedes try anything different?
03:54But it is working out at this moment inside.
03:56Verstappen is weaving all over the road,
03:57and he's going to force Hamilton wide again.
04:00And Hamilton can't quite get past on the entry into Turn 4.
04:04Thought for one moment about the old switcheroo there.
04:06Forced Verstappen a little bit deeper.
04:08Cut through on the inside.
04:09Didn't happen for him.
04:12The battle resumed as they go into Turn 1,
04:15and Hamilton's gaining, gaining, gaining on Max Verstappen here.
04:19Couldn't pull the move off on Verstappen that he did on Lando Norris in the sprint yesterday.
04:23Norris didn't really fight that one, to be fair.
04:24But he forced, he forced Max to go late into the corner,
04:28and he's got a better exit. Hamilton with a much better exit down to Turn 4.
04:32I said it's a third time lucky.
04:34Hamilton pulls ahead of Verstappen before they get to the corner.
04:37The crowd grew absolutely wild.
04:39It is third time lucky for Lewis Hamilton.
04:41He was 20th and last on the grid for the sprint.
04:45Here on lap 59 of the Grand Prix.
04:48He has gone from last all the way to first.
04:51What a drive this has been from Lewis Hamilton this weekend.
04:56Gazi's got Esteban Ocon in his sights.
04:58The two Frenchmen going to Turn 1 together.
05:00They almost collide.
05:01And that, by the briefest of margins, was a lucky escape, I think, for both of them going into Turn
05:071.
05:07Gasly makes his way up into 8th place.
05:10But they've both got DRS here.
05:12And Ocon is going to fight this one back again.
05:14Esteban Ocon has never scored a point here before.
05:16He has to yield and concede to Pierre Gasly into Turn 4.
05:22Gasly absolutely flying towards him.
05:24Here comes the Gas Man.
05:26And Fernando Alonso manages to stay ahead.
05:29Now, where does he point that Alpine to try and defend into Decido de Lago?
05:34He's not got DRS, Fernando Alonso, to help his battle.
05:37Gasly has, giving him an extra speed advantage.
05:41Gasly's going to go all the way around the outside and does so.
05:44Lewis Hamilton now has the checker flag in sight for his 101st win.
05:51Hamilton, against the odds, has come home to win the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
05:56What a victory for Lewis Hamilton.
05:58He's not ready to loosen his grip on that championship trophy.
06:02Not just yet.
06:03And with three races to go, is it very much game on, back at the top.
06:09And we look to see what Sergio Perez is doing.
06:12He's going for that fastest lap.
06:13He was fourth.
06:14He remains fourth.
06:15But he goes fastest with a 1-11-0.
06:19We move on then to Qatar.
06:21In a week's time, after a hugely eventful weekend here at Interlagos.
06:26There's something about this place.
06:27It just makes history.
06:29It makes stories.
06:30It makes memories.
06:31And Hamilton's memories that have started out looking rather grim on the first couple of days.
06:37And one of the last things we'll get from...
06:37A lot of different things that we get from...
06:37The 19th century ofures the 11th century midnight in 15llen Square.
06:37That's really good for you because this battle starts there and manifestation before you get back.
06:38And you can keep it from being t quick in mind.
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