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F1 statistics for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix

football05 November 2025 17:14| © Reuters
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Formula One statistics for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix at Brazil's Interlagos circuit, round 21 of the 24-race championship and also the season's penultimate Saturday sprint:

Lap distance: 4.309km. Total distance: 305.879km (71 laps)

2024 pole position: Lando Norris (Britain) McLaren one minute 23.405 seconds.

2024 winner: Max Verstappen (Netherlands) Red Bull

Race lap record: Valtteri Bottas (Finland) Mercedes 1:10.540 seconds (2018)

Start time: 1700GMT/1400 local

BRAZIL

- Brazil first hosted a grand prix at Interlagos in 1973.

- Three current drivers have won in Brazil: Lewis Hamilton (2016, 2018, 2021), Verstappen (2019, 2023, 2024), George Russell (2022).

- The flowing anti-clockwise circuit is named after Brazilian driver Jose Carlos Pace, who won in 1975 and died in 1977.

- Sunday will be the 42nd world championship grand prix hosted by the circuit.

- Michael Schumacher won four times in Sao Paulo, a record that Hamilton and Verstappen – who is also going for three wins in a row at Interlagos – can equal.

- Sauber's Gabriel Bortoleto is the only Brazilian driver and the first to race at home since Felipe Massa in 2017.

- There is always a high chance of a safety car.

DRIVERS' CHAMPIONSHIP

- McLaren's Lando Norris leads teammate Oscar Piastri by one point. Norris has beaten the Australian in the last five races.

- Red Bull's Max Verstappen is third and 36 points off the lead, after being 104 behind at the end of August.

CONSTRUCTORS' TITLE

- McLaren clinched the team's 10th constructors' championship, and second in a row, in Singapore last month.

- Ferrari are second, one point ahead of Mercedes with Red Bull a further nine behind.

WINS

- Piastri has won seven times this season, Norris six, Verstappen five and Mercedes' George Russell twice.

- Hamilton has not won since his career 105th victory in Belgium on July 28, 2024.

- Ferrari have not won since October 27 last year and are the only top four team without a win.

- Verstappen has won 68 grands prix and is third on the all-time list after Michael Schumacher on 91.

- McLaren have won 13 of 20 races, but only one of the last five.

POLE POSITION

- Verstappen has been on pole seven times this season, Piastri and Norris five each, Russell twice and Charles Leclerc once.

- The last six races have been won from pole, and 14 of 20.

SPRINT

- Norris won last year's sprint in Brazil, with Piastri second. Piastri had started on pole with Norris second.

- Verstappen has won two of 2025's four sprint races so far (Belgium and Austin). Hamilton (Shanghai) and Norris (Miami) won the others.

- Only two of the four were won from pole.

PODIUM

- Norris has been on the podium 16 times in 20 races, the most of any driver, and Piastri 14.

- Piastri has now been absent from the podium in four successive races.

- Leclerc has been second twice. The Monegasque has seven podiums for the season. Hamilton has yet to stand on the podium for Ferrari since he joined in January.

- Nine drivers from seven teams have been on the podium in 2025.

- Verstappen's third place in Mexico was his 123rd career podium, putting him one ahead of retired quadruple champion Sebastian Vettel and third on the all-time list.

POINTS

- Alpine rookie Franco Colapinto is the only driver on the grid yet to score this year.

MILESTONE

Sunday marks a year since Renault-owned Alpine's last podium. They finished second and third in Brazil last year with Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly. Alpine scored more points in that race than they have so far in all of 2025.

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