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00:00Lance Stroll down at Turn 4.
00:02De Sedo de Lago on the formation lap has gone off.
00:06Now, I think he's pulled over to the side here.
00:08Remember, Lance Stroll crashed in qualifying
00:11and brought out one of the five red flags.
00:15And we can see what happened as he was making his run.
00:18No, he didn't. He just lost it under braking.
00:20Wow.
00:21Just locked the rears.
00:22A thwarted start.
00:25So the drivers are all going to go round
00:28for one more formation lap.
00:30And this will count as one of the 71 racing laps.
00:34For the Sao Paolo Grand Prix,
00:37it's lights out and away we go.
00:38Lando Norris and George Russell
00:40edging then towards the first corner.
00:42And Russell's made a good start.
00:44And George Russell takes the lead of the race
00:46from Lando Norris.
00:48Esteban Ocon on the inside
00:49has Yuki Tsunoda for company
00:51as Liam Lawson tries to swoop around the outside.
00:54And then gets pinched off
00:55and Charles Leclerc gets past the RB.
00:58And that's going to give encouragement to Alonso
01:00and Oskar Piastri right behind him.
01:02Piastri's getting bogged a little bit by the RB,
01:05but he's trying to make the move under braking.
01:07Fernando Alonso's going to try and steam down the inside.
01:10Fernando Alonso does steam down the inside
01:12and go wheel to wheel with Oskar Piastri.
01:14This is brilliant racing.
01:16Alonso then gets squeezed by the RB.
01:18Piastri gets the place back again.
01:19It's Liam Lawson hanging on to sixth place.
01:22Then Piastri, Alonso, Gasly, Hamilton.
01:24And Esteban and that's Sergio Perez spinning round.
01:27And has he managed to get back on the track?
01:30Yes.
01:31Well done, Sergio Perez.
01:32That could have got stuck in the mud very, very easily.
01:35And lost to the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc.
01:38Here comes Max Verstappen into the first corner he goes.
01:41And past Lewis Hamilton and up into 10th place.
01:44Verstappen started 17th on the grid.
01:47He's made up seven places by the first corner on lap two.
01:51Verstappen crosses the line, still in 10th place.
01:54Gaining though by a few car lengths on Pierre Gasly.
01:56And once again, down the inside at turn one.
01:59There goes Max Verstappen, making up another place.
02:02And he's up to ninth.
02:03Here's a replay of the start.
02:04Watch Russell on the right-hand side.
02:05We didn't see this angle earlier.
02:07Initial getaway.
02:08Actually, Norris probably got a better launch.
02:10But again, that second phase,
02:12when they start to put the power down,
02:14that George just leaped in front.
02:16Now watch, there's Lawson,
02:17trying to go down the outside of Sunoda.
02:19And he's there.
02:20He backed out of it too late.
02:22And that basically allowed Leclerc
02:24to just drive around the outside.
02:26Further back, watch Verstappen.
02:27Oh, Verstappen had already got ahead of Sergio Perez,
02:30going into turn one.
02:32Here's the second phase now.
02:33This is where George Russell gets going.
02:35You can see the live shots
02:37on the left-hand side of your screen.
02:39And for all George Russell's good work at the start,
02:41Lando Norris is gaining on the last lap by half a second.
02:45And on this lap, he's gained by about half a second too.
02:48No DRSs yet, but he's very much in touch.
02:51Brilliant start by Verstappen.
02:53Clears the Haas.
02:53And now watch how he picks his way around the outside.
02:56Yeah, he's looking for the grip at this stage.
02:58Just being patient as well.
03:00Not trying to get too greedy too early on.
03:03And now watch this.
03:04Squares it off.
03:05Uses the grip around the outside to outdrag the Williams.
03:08Here comes Max Verstappen on Oskar Piastri.
03:11Piastri looks at his mirrors.
03:13Here comes Verstappen.
03:14The door was open from Oskar Piastri.
03:16And Max Verstappen just walked straight through
03:19without invitation.
03:20And what does Liam Lawson do?
03:21Now, he can be compliant and let Max Verstappen through.
03:24Or he can hold him up and defend and show Helmut Marko
03:28just how good he is defending in a race car.
03:32Well, look at that.
03:32He's left the door open.
03:34So I think that rather answers the question.
03:37Because that was a...
03:37Yeah, Helmut, do you mind if I just let Max through?
03:40Lawson, this is Sergio Perez.
03:42And this will be the moment
03:45that he comes wheel to wheel with Olly Behrmann.
03:49Oh, and that was almost rubbing wheels.
03:50Might have been rubbing wheels with Olly Behrmann.
03:52We can see him behind Franco Colapinto.
03:55This towards Jun Cao.
03:57Oh, he locked up the outside front.
03:59He locked up the right front.
04:00He was on the white line
04:01and then just locked up the right front
04:03and slid wide and just opened the door.
04:05There, watch there.
04:06Yeah.
04:07And science did need a second invitation.
04:10The message has got out to Max Verstappen.
04:12You've got one less lap to do some overtaking.
04:14It might be a good time to do it.
04:16Here he comes.
04:17Charles Leclerc has got the inside line covered nicely.
04:20Verstappen tries to go around the outside.
04:22Can he hang on here?
04:23No, the Ferrari is just firing up ahead.
04:26So by the time the track swings right,
04:28he stays ahead of that red bull.
04:30There he is.
04:31Carl's beached.
04:33It's got to be a safety car.
04:34Well, it has to be something
04:36as Esteban Ocon gets past Yuki Tsunoda
04:39and moves up into third place.
04:40And somehow, Lando Norris is accelerating
04:43as fast as he possibly can down the straight
04:45and can barely see 20 feet in front of it.
04:48And we've got a virtual safety car
04:51to clear away Nico Hülkenberg's Haas,
04:54which is going absolutely nowhere.
04:56The race gets neutralized.
04:58And now is that the time to come into the pit lane
05:02because you lose so much less time
05:03under a virtual safety car.
05:05Yes, it is.
05:06Hülkenberg has got going again.
05:08George Russell saying it's red flag conditions
05:10out there at the moment.
05:12That is not the view, it seems, of race control.
05:14The virtual safety car is now ending
05:16as George Russell comes into the pits
05:19and Lando Norris comes into the pits.
05:22This is getting on the edge here.
05:23But Lando Norris is going for the move on George Russell.
05:26Russell going so slowly
05:28that Lando Norris thinks,
05:29no, I can make the move, I can get stopped in time
05:32and I can put my car up into fourth place.
05:34Finally, he has got past George Russell.
05:36Oh, sorry, Bernie.
05:38Now, that is Franco Colapinso
05:40and this will be a red flag.
05:42I know we're behind the safety car,
05:44but this will be a red flag
05:46and this will be a big game
05:48for Esteban Ocon, Max Verstappen
05:51and Pierre Gasly who haven't pitted in this race yet.
05:56And there's your red flag.
05:57No one ever wishes for a red flag
05:58because the driver's gone off,
05:59but this could not have worked out better
06:01for Verstappen and that couldn't have worked out worse
06:04for Franco Colapinso.
06:06And that's another big accident
06:08for the Williams team
06:09who've got a lengthy check to write out
06:12for the crash damage this weekend.
06:15Wow, just look at the debris that's gone.
06:17That's all over the circuits.
06:19That'll have to get swept up.
06:21Ricky, this is not the winter.
06:23Which winter is this?
06:26Hello?
06:29When do we get this start going once more?
06:32It's entirely up to him to choose that.
06:36Oli Behrmann just hanging back at the back.
06:38That's why Oli Behrmann is at the back.
06:39He's gone off into the grass.
06:41He's kept it going.
06:42I'll tell you what, though.
06:43There's a salvo behind him,
06:45as we've gone racing once more.
06:47And they're struggling to get up the hill,
06:48such as the lack of grip on that grass.
06:50On the asphalt, though,
06:52Esteban Ocon leads them into Turn 1.
06:54Verstappen too far back to make the overtake
06:56and doesn't.
06:57Right behind, they're driving into the spray.
06:59Oh, Norris.
06:59As wide goes Lando Norris
07:01at Desino de Lago.
07:02Norris goes off the track,
07:03rejoins just ahead of George Russell.
07:05And Russell will try and fight this now
07:08towards Ferradura.
07:09On the inside, Lando Norris has to concede.
07:12Russell's got back ahead.
07:14Oh, and there in the barriers is a Ferrari.
07:16Sainz.
07:17And it's Carlos Sainz who's gone off at rear.
07:20And we've got a safety car deployed here.
07:23We've come to the replay,
07:24but I thought I saw him driving off again.
07:26He was.
07:28So just after braking,
07:29touched the kerb.
07:30Oh, dear.
07:32But he was facing...
07:33So he's facing outwards from the barriers.
07:36He's obviously kept the engine going.
07:37I thought for all the world
07:39that he was out of the race there.
07:40He tried to brake on the white line.
07:43I think that the front suspension
07:45will be too badly damaged
07:46for him to carry on driving.
07:47Now they go.
07:48And Pierre Gasly did not get that done whatsoever.
07:51And George Russell might have gone and napping a little bit.
07:53And here comes Charles Leclerc
07:55on the inside of Lando Norris.
07:57And there goes Max Verstappen
07:58on the inside of Esteban Ocon.
08:00And Lando Norris goes straight on in the first corner.
08:03Verstappen takes the lead of the race
08:05from Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly.
08:07Then comes Charles Leclerc.
08:08Then George Russell.
08:10Then Oskar Piastri.
08:11And Lando Norris down into 7th!
08:15In 10th behind Liam Lawson.
08:17There'll be no swapping positions going on with that one.
08:20But the two McLaren drivers told to swap positions now.
08:23Piastri complies as he did in the sprint race yesterday.
08:26Allows Lando Norris through and up into 6th place.
08:30Lando, Oskar behind you has a 10th-second penalty.
08:33We want there for you to get close to Leclerc.
08:36Well, you know what you think of me?
08:39I'm trying to go as quick as I can.
08:42I will finish the race for the mechanics.
08:45But they did a very good job today.
08:48But my back is hurting, man.
08:51These bumps, it is not normal.
08:53A day where Max Verstappen, for the second year running,
08:57wins the Sao Paolo Grand Prix
08:59and wins it by an absolute distance.
09:02Max Verstappen, home to take maximum points.
09:06But now the attention switches
09:08and the celebrations are already beginning to start
09:11on the pit wall and on the railings beside the side of the track.
09:17Because here comes Esteban Ocon.
09:19It's not one podium.
09:20It's two for Alpine.
09:22It's Sao Paolo.
09:24And it's something like 50 million dollars
09:27that they will get extra
09:28by moving into 6th place in the Constructors' Championship.
09:32Wow.
09:34It's been a long time coming, mate.
09:36But boy, was that worth the wait.
09:39You are the man.
09:41Oh, yes!
09:44What an unbelievable race, guys.
09:48You know what that is?
09:49Simply lovely.
09:51I tell you that.
09:55Zario 10.
09:57And P2.
10:06Oh, what a race, guys!
10:08Yes!
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