Components 1 has moved up the beginning of Sunday’s São Paulo Grand Prix due to the climate forecast.
The race has been moved from 2 p.m. native time to 12:30 p.m. Meaning it’ll begin at 10:30 a.m. ET as a substitute of at Midday.
Sunday’s Grand Prix will even be preceded by qualifying at 7:30 a.m. (5:30 a.m. ET). Saturday’s scheduled qualifying session was rained out and rain is persistently within the forecast all through Sunday. F1 groups have we climate tires, however an excessive amount of rain may cause ponding and make the monitor unusable. On Saturday, the rain was so onerous on the Interlagos circuit that it was unimaginable to run qualifying.
It’s unclear what the beginning lineup shall be for the race if qualifying is unable to happen on Sunday morning.
Saturday’s dash race happened as scheduled and was gained by Lando Norris forward of his teammate Oscar Piastri. Piastri led a lot of the race earlier than he was instructed to let his teammate go earlier than a digital security automotive for Nico Hulkenberg’s stranded automotive.
That VSC led to a restart halfway via the ultimate lap that Max Verstappen tried to leap to get previous Piastri. Verstappen was a bit of too anxious and exceeded the minimal delta time between himself and Piastri earlier than the VSC ended. Verstappen completed third, however was relegated to fourth after the race due to a five-second penalty.
That penalty price Verstappen a degree. Norris scored eight factors to Verstappen’s 5 within the dash and is now 44 factors forward of Verstappen with 4 Grand Prix races and one dash to go this season.
