00:00Norris on your left hand side, Antonelli on your right hand side, they are the front row for today and
00:06we wait for the five lights and the start of the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, it's lights out, away we
00:10go and Kimi Antonelli gets a better start than Lando Norris and Kimi Antonelli's into the lead by turn one,
00:17Norris second then Lawson third, Isaac Hadjar is up to fourth, Nico Hülkenberg under pressure from George Russell and passed
00:23by George Russell as Liam Lawson gets past Lando Norris.
00:27Look at Max Verstappen under braking, how close he gets there to Lewis Hamilton. Lewis got wide, got some wheel
00:34spin. Max went into that corner with momentum, he came out of that corner with momentum and he's ahead of
00:39Hamilton and up into ninth place.
00:41He's out towards turn one, we go, Piastri on the inside, Verstappen goes round the outside, if he can hang
00:47it out there for long enough, he's got the inside line for the next corner, Piastri just covers him off.
00:52Alex Albon getting all squirrelly, coming out of the centre-esses into Curva de Sol and now there's three of
00:58them trying to attack into Decido de Lago as Verstappen gets past Piastri, down the inside on Alex Albon.
01:05Two corners, two places gained.
01:07The stewards to note that one, Liam Lawson proving a little bit of a cork in the bottle here and
01:13he goes very, very wide and that allows Lando Norris the chance to come through on the inside but when
01:19they get to turn ten, Lawson's got that inside line, Norris is staying with him through these slow corners and
01:25Lando Norris looks like he's now got second place and has.
01:28Replacing Liam Isaac Hadjar for three races earlier this season, he might now see it in his wing mirrors as
01:34it dives down the inside and Isaac Hadjar moves up into the podium places.
01:39Liam Lawson, who'd never run in the top two previously in his Formula One career before today, is now down
01:45into fifth place as George Russell goes down the inside at turn one.
01:50And Hamilton is not far from seeing his teammate go past him here. The two Ferraris are battling it out
01:57currently for 12th place. Hamilton goes wide, Leclerc goes down the inside and that was a decent overtake but then
02:05Hamilton now tries to fight this one back.
02:07And the two Ferraris go wheel to wheel at top speed in the wet here, onto the main straight. Hamilton
02:13on the inside, Leclerc on the outside, Leclerc's a car length ahead. Has he now managed to bag that 12th
02:20place? It looks like it.
02:21Yes, in these conditions. Look, Alonso through on the exit T5. Can he hold it into Ferradura? No.
02:28Well, he's trying to, you know, and he has Skyrace control. Martin's saying it might not be far from Slicks,
02:39or some drivers might think that as George Russell goes down the inside on Isaac Hadjar, got much better grip.
02:44I want to come in to some sides, six sides. Can I come in now? No. Negative, negative. We are
02:51not in the crossover yet. First one on to the Slicks.
02:53It started to show. Understood. Thank you. It's on the edge, for sure. If you get temperature, it'll be good.
03:01I'm telling you. Send us a postcard.
03:03The only place that's slippery is out of 12. Exactly. It's the worst place for data. We agree. We need
03:09to wait a bit.
03:10So Antonelli now leads from Verstappen. Fernando Alonso has stayed out, picked up places. And that is George Russell in
03:17the pit lane, trying to spin round.
03:20And now, can he get reverse? Yes, he can. That is going to hold up Oscar Piastri, who manages to
03:26zip past him.
03:27Oh, he's going to break the front wing, surely, on that. Oh, there's not enough room for George Russell to
03:32get going.
03:33That spin has spun him completely out of contention. Yeah.
03:38We are with the car.
03:41We are just lacking surface depth. Should come in, set two, this time.
03:44No, mate. It's a suspension.
03:48Okay, standby.
03:49Oh, it's going round.
03:51Oh, Kimi Antonelli at the first corner.
03:55Spins out and allows Lando Norris to take the lead of this race.
03:59Kimi Antonelli towards the first corner. Antonelli's got it covered off.
04:03This time around, he goes wide in the second part of that corner.
04:08This time around, he's got his braking right, but he couldn't hold off Isaac Hadjar.
04:11Oh, no, the car is pulling on one side.
04:14When accelerating, it's too weird.
04:17Okay, copy. We'll look at it.
04:18But it is the third race in a row that that has been a problem for Rebel and Verstappen.
04:23That's the problem for Charles Leclerc.
04:26No grip whatsoever going into turn one.
04:28And this is Raphael Camera into the same corner.
04:32It's so greasy down there, isn't it?
04:34It's like pulling the handbrake on, though, isn't it?
04:36The downshifts, the engine braking.
04:37Yeah, I was convinced my car was completely broken.
04:41And that's off again, then.
04:43Yeah, that's live.
04:44That's live.
04:44That's off again.
04:45And Max Verstappen is through.
04:47Okay, Kimi, let's go ahead down, refocus.
04:48Yeah, but there's a problem, man.
04:51Like, I can't turn on the left corner.
04:53Like, the car is doing it by itself.
04:55It's up in the 16th.
04:56Here comes Russell again.
04:58This time, he might just have got Nico Hülkenberg for 7th place.
05:02This time, he has got Nico Hülkenberg for 7th place.
05:05Hadjar has been told now to swap positions.
05:09Max Verstappen goes through.
05:11It's the official swap from Red Bull.
05:14If he can't get very long, though, he's still like that.
05:18Hey, folks, I'll get to come back to me, huh?
05:21Yes, mate, I'm working on it.
05:22I'm still working on it.
05:23But this is the move, then, quite easy in the end for George Russell.
05:28You see the car hitting the ground in the slightly off line.
05:31A couple of laps of, will there be a safety car?
05:33Will it start raining?
05:35Let's not come in any earlier than we have to.
05:37So, I believe they've now used those couple of comfort laps.
05:41And out of the pits comes Lando Norris on a new set of soft compound tyres.
05:46He'll see his teammate, Oscar Piastri, just ahead of him.
05:50He's got Fernando Alonso right behind.
05:52And Isaac Hadjar now leads this Grand Prix on lap 50.
05:55From Kimi Antonelli and Oscar Piastri,
05:59none of those three have stopped for a second time.
06:02And Lando Norris goes back into the lead of this race.
06:05So, the day that he could get his 50th podium in Formula 1,
06:10as Isaac Hadjar goes down the inside on George Russell
06:13and gets that move done at Turn 4.
06:16So, you've got Kimi at two seconds.
06:19But just, just don't hold him up.
06:20Yeah, we're on.
06:22I don't know, there's several pages in Max's contract,
06:26probably suggests he can't.
06:28Kimi Antonelli wasn't held up by George Russell, as you can see.
06:33Yeah, so Lawson very close to Leclerc here and ahead of Hamilton.
06:37So, yeah, nice inside line, plenty of grip there, look.
06:43Overtake now disabled.
06:44They'll also disable straight line mode any time soon.
06:48This is getting oh so close to intermediate tyres.
06:54Now stops for the intermediates.
06:57Tell you what, if it dries out,
06:58they'll be horrible by the end of the race.
07:01But we're on lap 63 of 71.
07:04Yeah, they'll need it to keep raining for this to work.
07:07They said to Max Verstappen,
07:08are you coming in?
07:10He said, no, one more lap.
07:12How costly could that one more lap have been?
07:15Or will he be okay as he makes his way now out of the pit lane?
07:21They are all stopping for these intermediate tyres.
07:24As you can see the cloud and the moisture in the air.
07:27And now, is that an unsafe release?
07:28Kimi Antonelli and Franco Colopinto.
07:30Earlier on, who's gone off?
07:32Hamilton.
07:33Hamilton trying to get another lap in on the slick tyres,
07:38almost hitting the barriers at turn 13.
07:41Charles Leclerc, who is running in eighth and has really benefited.
07:43Antonelli swapped.
07:44And they have swapped.
07:45At Mercedes.
07:47The instruction came.
07:49And Kimi was told, let him through.
07:50Because he's got more pace than you at the moment.
07:53And this is what happened to Lewis Hamilton.
07:55The rain starting to come down.
07:57You've got to be so, so careful.
07:59He wants to come into the pit.
08:01It's a tighter angle, maybe.
08:03On that left-hand turn.
08:05And he did very well to avoid the barrier.
08:07I think he just touched it, didn't he, with the rear wing.
08:09Did he?
08:10Let's have a look.
08:12Yes, oh, he did.
08:13Actually, that was a bigger hit than I thought.
08:43Yeah.
08:45And does manage to keep hold of that seventh place as the rain starts to get heavier at Interlagos.
08:51I think Leclerc's lucky there.
08:53He wasn't leading over the line because he might have been told to hand that place back.
08:57And Lawson gets a lot of curb on the exit of turn three.
09:01Another Grand Prix win.
09:02A 50th podium in Formula One and a second successive victory at Interlagos.
09:07Lando Norris, Lando Norris, through the rain and spray, wins the Sao Paolo Grand Prix.
09:14And he has sailed through these conditions.
09:17Mercedes, Constructors' Champions in 26.
09:20Well done.
09:26Well done, guys.
09:27Well done.
09:27You all deserve it.
09:29You keep working hard.
09:30I try and deliver.
09:31Today we did.
09:32Thank you very much.
09:34Well done.
09:35Credit to you all.
09:37Let's keep it going, please.
09:38Let's keep the world cup.
09:40Zach must have done the right rain dance for his birthday last night.
09:43Oh, yes.
09:44Happy birthday, Zachary.
09:45I know you love being called Zachary, so happy birthday, Zachary.
