Poll: Official 2023 Sao Paulo Grand Prix Thread - Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace, Sao Paulo - Round 21

[Mr Jack]

Alonso let off. Norris and Tsunoda given reprimands.

 

[Flibster]

28°C Air temperature

54°C Track temperature

Risk of rain for F1 sprint is 0%

 

[Flibster]

All softs except Magnussen, Hulkenberg on used mediums and Sargeant on new mediums.

Tsunoda, Ricciardo, Bottas and Zhou on new softs.

 

[Flibster]

Oh dear... marshall running in front of the safety car...

 

[Flibster]

And Norris waves Verstappen through... again...

They really are good friends.

 

[Stu999]

It’s go time!

 

[el_dazza]

0.15s reaction time is just.. wow.

 

[Flibster]

Shame the Mercedes straight line speed still isn't great.

 

[Flibster]

Race control - Sargeant time 1:18.311 deleted - track limits turn 1 lap 5

 

[Stu999]

Did Ricciardo have a bad start? I thought he’d out qualified Tsunoda?

 

[Flibster]

Did Ricciardo have a bad start? I thought he’d out qualified Tsunoda?

Tsunoda was P6, Ricciardo was P8. Both have only dropped 1 place from the start.

 

[Mr Jack]

Did Ricciardo have a bad start? I thought he’d out qualified Tsunoda?

He did in main Quali, not in Sprint.

 

[Stu999]

He did in main Quali, not in Sprint.

Ah, cheers.

 

[el_dazza]

Norris is maintaining the gap, hope he can make it interesting.

 

[Flibster]

Track has cooled a lot. Now 43°C

Down 11°C in 20 minutes

 

[Stumble Bum]

Some pretty fun racing so far at this track.

 

[imtoooldforthis]

This has been an excellent sprint race

 

[Flibster]

Verstappen radio - We have to make a decision here if we're going to push the high speed or not?

Pit - Yes we are going to push the high speed Max, I've been telling you for the last 3 laps. Norris two and a half tenths quicker than you in 6 and 7

 

[Flibster]

Ricciardo radio - It's the rear. Rear is giving me a lot of issues.

 

[UTmaniac]

BBC "leaderboard" info for sprint quali and sprint race is so poor.