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🏎️ Brazilian Grand Prix Photo Finish

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Jordan Williams
November 07, 2023

In this weeks email:

  • Brazilian Grand Prix Analysis: Photo Finish between Alonso & Perez 📸

  • F1 Team & Driver Standings 📊

  • Hints at a future Malaysian F1 race after new sponsor deal 💰

  • Podium Finishes so far this season 🏆

  • FIA enforce New Pit Lane Rule for Qualifying part of races 🚨

Brazilian Grand Prix Analysis: Photo Finish between Alonso & Perez 📸

Max Verstappen cruised to his 17th race win of the year, beating second place finished Lando Norris by eight seconds. Below are results from the race:

  1. Max Verstappen (Red Bull)

  2. Lando Norris (McLaren)

  3. Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)

  4. Sergio Pérez (Red Bull)

  5. Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)

  6. Carlos Sainz (Ferrari)

  7. Pierre Gasly (Alpine)

  8. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes)

  9. Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri)

  10. Esteban Ocon (Alpine)

  11. Logan Sargeant (Williams)

  12. Niko Hülkenberg (Haas)

  13. Daniel Ricciardo (AlphaTauri)

  14. Oscar Piastri (McLaren)

Drivers that DNF - George Russell (Mercedes), Valterri Bottas (Alfa Romeo) Zhou Guanyu (Alfa Romeo), Kevin Magnussen (Haas), Alex Albon (Williams), Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)

Other things to note:

  • The top two drivers were in a race of their own. Fernando Alonso who finished P3 was at a distant 25.878 seconds behind Verstappen & Norris.

  • On the opening lap, we saw three drivers get knocked out of the race. One of those being Charles Leclerc where his Ferrari car experienced issues with the hydraulics.

  • There was a photo finish between Fernando Alonso and Sergio Perez. Having a 0.053 second difference between the two at the finish line.

  • It had been 17 races since Aston Martin had both drivers place in a top 5 finish. The last one being the Australian Grand Prix back in April.

F1 Team & Driver Standings 📊

With Lando Norris placing P5 or higher in the last four races, he has has shorted his gap behind Fernando Alonso to only 3 points for P3 in the driver standings.

Hints for a comeback for Malaysia Grand Prix after new sponsor deal 💰

This past week the Sepang International Cirucuit in Malaysia was renamed to Petronas Sepang International Cirucuit. It is a three-year naming rights deal and there are hopes that with the new sponsorship, there will be a F1 race coming to Malaysia.

It has been since 2017 since there has been a Formula 1 race in Malaysia. This new sponsorship will help give a financial boost to the race track in order to host world-class racing events.

Podium finishes so far in 2023 🏆

  1. Verstappen - 19

  2. Alonso, Perez - 8

  3. Norris - 7

  4. Hamilton - 6

  5. Leclerc - 4

  6. Sainz -3

  7. Piastri - 2

  8. Russell, Gasly, Ocon - 1

FIA enforce New Pit Lane Rule 🚨

F1 drivers have been banned from stopping in the fast lane of the pits during qualifying sessions in order to prevent traffic jams.

The FIA stated, “As per article 33.4 of the Formula 1 Sporting Regulations, drivers are not allowed to go unnecessarily slow, that includes stopping a car in the fast lane of the pitlane,” the race director’s event notes state.”

Andrea Stella, McLaren Principal stated “It puts all drivers too much at the mercy of the other drivers. And this for me starts to be unfair. We need to create policy aspects and ruling aspects to control the situation, which I think is just inappropriate.”