2017 Brazilian Grand Prix – Stats & Facts

A Brazilian Grand Prix was first held in 1972 at Interlagos, although it was not part of the Formula One World Championship. Typical of European motorsports at the time, this race was done as a test to convince the FIA if the Interlagos circuit and its organizers could capably hold a Grand Prix.

The following year, however, the race was first included in the official calendar, and it was won by defending world champion and São Paulo native Emerson Fittipaldi.

In 1978 the Brazilian Grand Prix moved to Jacarepaguá in Rio de Janeiro.

After the emergence in 1980 of Rio de Janeiro racer Nelson Piquet and the retirement of Fittipaldi, Brazilian fans lobbied to host the Brazilian GP in Piquet’s home town.

The flat Jacarepaguá circuit, like Interlagos before it, proved to be extremely demanding.

São Paulo native Ayrton Senna’s success thus far in Formula One had city officials working hard to revamp the Interlagos circuit in a $15 million investment to shorten and smooth over the circuit.

In 1990 the Grand Prix returned to a shortened Interlagos, where it has stayed since. The Interlagos circuit has created some of the most exciting and memorable races in recent Formula One history, and is regarded as one of the most challenging and exciting circuits on the F1 calendar.

Brazilian Prix, Round 19 of the 2017 Formula 1 season

Circuit Name: Autódromo José Carlos Pace

Race Laps: 71

Circuit Length: 4.309 km (2.677 mi)

Race Length: 305.909 km (190.067 mi)

Number of corners: 15 (10 Left, 5 Right)

Circuit Direction: Anti Clockwise

Pole Position 2016: Lewis Hamilton – Mercedes 1:10.736

Distance from pole to T1 apex:  334.5 m

Pole position side: Right

Pit lane length under speed limit control: 387.1 m

Drive-through time at 80 km/h: 17.419 s

Lap time at full throttle: 55%

Lap distance at full throttle: 68%

Gear changes per lap: 44

Braking events (>2G): 6

Heavy braking events (<0.4s @ >4G): 2

Fuel consumption: Low

Maximum lateral G-force: 3.9 G (T6)

Maximum speed: 341.0 km/h

Track evolution (P1 – Qualifying): Low

DRS zone: T3-4 / T15-1

Key overtaking opportunities: T1, T4

Race lap record: 1:11.473 (MON, 2004)

 Absolute lap record: 1:09.822 (BAR, 1st Quali, 2004)

Autódromo José Carlos Pace

 

 

Pirelli used compounds

Tyres that must be available (one of them to be used) at some point in the race:

One set of P Zero White Medium

One set of P Zero Yellow soft

Tyres assigned for Q3 in qualifying:                     

One set of P Zero Red Super-Soft

Teams/Drivers compounds choice

Driver	Medium	Soft	Super-Soft
Lewis Hamilton	1	4	8
Valtteri Bottas	1	4	8
Daniel Ricciardo	1	4	8
Max Verstappen	1	3	9
Sebastian Vettel	1	3	9
Kimi Raikkonen	1	3	9
Sergio Perez	1	4	8
Esteban Ocon	1	4	8
Lance Stroll	1	2	10
Felipe Massa	1	2	10
Stoffel Vandoorne	1	3	9
Fernando Alonso	1	3	9
Pierre Gasly	1	4	8
Brendon Hartley	1	4	8
Romain Grosjean	1	4	8
Kevin Magnussen	1	4	8
Nico Hulkenberg	1	2	10
Carlos Sainz	1	2	10
Marcus Ericsson	1	3	9
Pascal Wehrlein	1	3	9

 

THE CIRCUIT FROM A TYRE POINT OF VIEW:

The track was resurfaced relatively recently, which ironed out some of the famous Interlagos bumps.

The second-shortest lap of the season (after Monaco) means cars are not only nearly always turning, but also going off-line to overtake.

The track runs anti-clockwise, with the right-rear tyre doing the most work in Brazil.

The rapid series of corners and high-energy loads put quite high demands on tyres.

Tyres are also frequently subjected to combined lateral and longitudinal forces.

Unusually, Lewis Hamilton won last year in rainy conditions without making a racing pit stop, although he did take a fresh set of wets under a red flag.

In 2015, the top three stopped three times

MARIO ISOLA – HEAD OF CAR RACING

“As we saw at the last round in Mexico as well, for Brazil we are again bringing a softer tyre nomination than last year – when the hard was selected – so this is likely to lead to some of the fastest-ever laps of Interlagos this weekend. With a short lap, plus plenty of pit stops and overtaking, as well as a passionate Brazilian crowd and the potential for

extremes of weather, this is normally a frenetic race where the strategic timing of stops is very important to try and minimise the effects of traffic. While we’ve gone a step softer this year, no driver has selected more than one set of the mediums, which means that the weekend will be centred around the soft and supersoft compounds.”

INTERLAGOS MINIMUM STARTING PRESSURES (SLICKS)

22.5 psi (front) | 20.0 psi (rear)

EOS CAMBER LIMIT

-3.25° (front) | -2.00° (rear)

 

 

Brazilian Grand Prix Winners 1973 – 2016

Year	Driver	Constructor	Location
2016	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	Interlagos
2015	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
2014	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
2013	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault
2012	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes
2011	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault
2010	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault
2009	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault
2008	Felipe Massa	Ferrari
2007	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari
2006	Felipe Massa	Ferrari
2005	Juan Pablo Montoya	McLaren-Mercedes
2004	Juan Pablo Montoya	Williams-BMW
2003	Giancarlo Fisichella	Jordan-Ford
2002	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
2001	David Coulthard	McLaren-Mercedes
2000	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
1999	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
1998	Mika Häkkinen	McLaren-Mercedes
1997	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams-Renault
1996	Damon Hill	Williams-Renault
1995	Michael Schumacher	Benetton-Renault
1994	Michael Schumacher	Benetton-Ford
1993	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Ford
1992	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Renault
1991	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda
1990	Alain Prost	Ferrari
1989	Nigel Mansell	Ferrari	Jacarepaguá
1988	Alain Prost	McLaren-Honda
1987	Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG
1986	Nelson Piquet	Williams-Honda
1985	Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG
1984	Alain Prost	McLaren-TAG
1983	Nelson Piquet	Brabham-BMW
1982	Alain Prost	Renault
1981	Carlos Reutemann	Williams-Ford
1980	René Arnoux	Renault	Interlagos
1979	Jacques Laffite	Ligier-Ford
1978	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	Jacarepaguá
1977	Carlos Reutemann	Ferrari	Interlagos
1976	Niki Lauda	Ferrari
1975	Carlos Pace	Brabham-Ford
1974	Emerson Fittipaldi	McLaren-Ford
1973	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus-Ford

 

Multiple Winners (Drivers)

# Wins	Driver	Years Won
6	Alain Prost	1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990
4	Michael Schumacher	1994, 1995, 2000, 2002
3	Carlos Reutemann	1977, 1978, 1981
2	Emerson Fittipaldi	1973, 1974
	Nelson Piquet	1983, 1986
	Nigel Mansell	1989, 1992
	Ayrton Senna	1991, 1993
	Mika Häkkinen	1998, 1999
	Juan Pablo Montoya	2004, 2005
	Felipe Massa	2006, 2008
	Mark Webber	2009, 2011
	Sebastian Vettel	2010, 2013
	Nico Rosberg	2014, 2015

 

 

Multiple Winners (Constructors)

# of wins	Constructor	Years Won
12	McLaren	1974, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2012
10	Ferrari	1976, 1977, 1978, 1989, 1990, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008
6	Williams	1981, 1986, 1992, 1996, 1997, 2004
4	Red Bull	2009, 2010, 2011, 2013
3	Mercedes	2014, 2015, 2016
2	Brabham	1975, 1983
	Benetton	1994, 1995
	Renault	1980, 1982

 

Numbers and Facts

Most wins (driver) 6, Alain Prost 1982 – 84 – 85 – 87 – 88 – 90 (Here most wins is 4 by Michael Schumacher)

Most wins (constructor) 12, McLaren 1974 – 84 – 85 – 87 – 88 – 91 – 93 – 98 – 99 – 2001 – 05 – 12 (Here McLaren and Ferrari with 8 wins)

Wins from pole position 14, 1974 – 79 – 82 – 91 – 92 – 97 – 98 – 99 – 2006 – 08 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16

Lowest grid for past winner 8, 2003 – Giancarlo Fisichella for Jordan

Most recent 1-2 finish 2016 Mercedes Lewis Hamilton – Nico Rosberg

Most emphatic win (here) 1 lap, 1994 – Michael Schumacher-Damon Hill

Closest winning margin 0.588s, 2002 – Michael Schumacher-Ralf Schumacher

Rain-affected races 10, 1974 – 81 – 91 – 93 – 96 – 2001 – 03 – 08 – 12 – 16

Safety Car-affected races 10, 1993 – 2001 – 03 – 05 – 06 – 08 – 09 – 10 – 12 – 16

Red Flag (and result declared) races 2, 1974 – 2003

2-hour rule shortened races 1, 1981

Most podiums (driver) 10m Michael Schumacher 1992 – 1993 – 1994 – 1995 – 1996 – 1998 – 1999 – 2000 – 2001 – 2002

Most podiums (constructor) 31, McLaren (Recent 2012)

Most pole positions (driver) 6, Ayrton Senna 1986 – 88 – 89 – 90 – 91 – 94 (Here 3 – Senna, Hakkinen, Barrichello and Massa)

Most pole positions (constructor) 11, McLaren (Here 9 McLaren)

What Happened last race here?

Lewis Hamilton produced a masterful performance to win a wet, chaotic, crash-strewn Brazilian Grand Prix and take the title fight to the final race.

The victory cut the lead of his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg, who finished second, to 12 points.

After each restart, Hamilton cruised easily away from Rosberg – building at one stage an 18-second lead in 14 laps before another safety car cut his lead to nothing.

Had Red Bull not gambled on fitting intermediate tyres to Verstappen’s car on lap 43, the Dutchman would almost certainly have split the Mercedes drivers.

However, Verstappen’s decision backfired. As the rain intensified, it became clear during a subsequent safety car period caused when Felipe Massa crashed on the pit straight on lap 48 that he needed to switch back to the full wets.

That left Verstappen down in 13th place but he set about recovering lost ground with incredible skill and gusto and fought up to pass Force India’s Sergio Perez to take third into the fast Mergulho corner with two laps to go.

And it also included an almost unbelievable moment when Verstappen had a half-spin on the straight but recovered the car and got going again without losing second place to Rosberg.

The race started under the safety car, and when it released the field after eight laps, than a crash by Sauber’s Marcus Ericsson on the pit straight brought the safety car back out.

Six laps later there was a restart, only for Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari to suffer a frightening-looking crash on the straight just after the start line, prompting race director Charlie Whiting to stop the race for the first time.

Thirty-five minutes later, the race started again under the safety car, only to be stopped again seven laps later when conditions were deemed too dangerous.

After another 25-minute delay, it was restarted, the safety car pulling in after three laps and there were 16 laps of racing before Massa’s crash.

That led to another safety car period, this time for seven laps, before the race was restarted and ran to the end.

Perez held on for fourth, less than a second ahead of Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, who survived a spin earlier in the race out of the last corner.

2016 Race Classification

Pos	Driver	Constructor	Time/Retired	Grid
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	3:01:01.335	1
2	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	+11.455	2
3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	+21.481	4
4	Sergio Pérez	Force India-Mercedes	+25.346	9
5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	+26.334	5
6	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	+29.16	15
7	Nico Hülkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	+29.827	8
8	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	+30.4861	6
9	Felipe Nasr	Sauber-Ferrari	+42.62	21
10	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Honda	+44.432	10
11	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	+45.292	11
12	Esteban Ocon	MRT-Mercedes	+45.809	22
13	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	+51.192	14
14	Kevin Magnussen	Renault	+51.555	18
15	Pascal Wehrlein	MRT-Mercedes	+1:00.498	19
16	Jenson Button	McLaren-Honda	+1:21.994	17
Ret	Esteban Gutiérrez	Haas-Ferrari	Electrical	12
Ret	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	Accident	13
Ret	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	Collision damage	16
Ret	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	Accident	3
Ret	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari	Accident	20
DNS	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	Accident	–

 

 

 

Did you know?

DRIVERS

✪ Since Lewis Hamilton has been at Mercedes he has taken pole 46 times already, almost 50% of all races he’s started for the team (46/ 93 = 49%)

✪ Hamilton’s win to starts percentage is better than that of Michael Schumacher’s (30.1% compared to 29.7%)

✪ Hamilton has won 30.1% of all GP he’s started (62 wins from 206 starts) and is in the top 10 drivers races to win ratio of all-time. Here’s how he compares:-

1. Fangio 47.0%, 2. Ascari 40.6%, 3. Clark 34.7%, 4. Hamilton 30.1%, 5. M. Schumacher 29.7%, 6. Ja. Stewart 27.2%, 7. Prost 25.6%, 8. A. Senna 25.5%, 9. Moss 24.2% 10. Vettel 23.4% (46/196)

✪ Hamilton is the only driver to have finished in the points in all races so far this season. Hamilton and Esteban Ocon are the only drivers to have finished all races in 2017

✪ Hamilton has now been classified as a finisher in all Grand Prix for over a season. His last DNF came in Japan last year

✪ Sebastian Vettel has not won back-to-back Grand Prix since he won the 2013 Brazilian Grand Prix. That race ended a 9-race run of victories that started in Belgium,

(BEL, ITA, SIN, KOR, JAP, IND, ABU, USA, BRA)

✪ Vettel in Mexico took his 50th pole position in F1

✪ Vettel has started 13 races so far In 2017 from the front row, the most by any driver and 1 more time than Hamilton

✪ Vettel needs to lead ‘only’ 54 more race laps to equal Ayrton Senna’s career total of 2,987. The all-time most F1 race laps led is 5,111 by Michael Schumacher

✪ Daniel Ricciardo has led just 1 more race lap in his 127 F1 career than has 58 GP ‘veteran’ Max Verstappen (176 – 175)

✪ Verstappen scored his first GP win from a P4 start, his second from P3 and his 3rd from P2. You might be forgiven for waging money when he finally manages to take pole!

✪ Verstappen has competed the least number of race laps by any driver who has competed in all 18 races so far this season (693). The most is Hamilton on 1,069 race laps (out of 1,070)

✪ Kimi Raikkonen’s next win if ever it comes will be the 21st of his F1 career and will also be the most by a Finnish driver in F1. Currently he shares the record of 20 wins by a Finn with Mika Hakkinen. Another career stat he shares is 37 F1 front row appearances with Fernando Alonso 

✪ Raikkonen’s next front row will be the 40th of his F1 career and will beat Mika Hakkinen’s record for the most front row grid positions by a Finnish driver in F1

✪ Sergio Perez needs just 1 more podium to become the top Mexican in terms of F1 podiums. He currently shares the record (7) with Pedro Rodriguez

✪ Brendon Hartley will celebrate his 28th birthday on Free Practice day, Friday 10th November

CONSTRUCTORS

✪ Mercedes in Brazil will be aiming to lockout the front row for the 50th time. The all-time record is 62 and is jointly held by McLaren and Williams.

✪ Mercedes has finished 1-2 here from Pole and P2 grid starts for the past 3 years

✪ Mercedes and Red Bull have each led 95 different F1 Grand Prix

✪ Ferrari has still not scored consecutive pole positions since Fernando Alonso took pole for the Scuderia at the 2012 British and German Grand Prix and has still not scored a consecutive front row lock-out since Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa lock-out the front row for the 2006 US and French Grand Prix

✪ Ferrari’s pole in Mexico meant that Ferrari engines have powered cars to 214 F1 Grand Prix pole positions, 1 more than any other engine manufacturer. Next-best is Renault (213) then Ford (139)

✪ Ferrari last season was the only team to score championship points at all 21 events

✪ Red Bull has achieved a podium result for at least one of their drivers in 112 different F1 Grand Prix

✪ A double-podium in Brazil for Red Bull Racing would be their 149th and 150th in F1

✪ If Red Bull Racing can finish at least 1 car I n the top 10 in Brazil it will be the team’s 200th F1 Grand Prix in the points

✪ The current Williams team traces its origins back to 1977. The team began by running a March for Belgian Patrick Neve who sadly died earlier is year and later in 1978, became a constructor running a single FW06 car for Alan Jones. In 1979 the team expanded to 2 cars with Clay Regazzoni joining Jones. Regazzoni won Williams’s first Grand Prix, at Silversone in 1979 while Jones claimed Williams’s first driver’s and first constructor’s titles in 1980. Frank Williams had made his first forays into F1 in 1969, running a Brabham for Piers Courage. Campaigns with De Tomaso, private March’s, with his own cars and Heskeths latterly in conjunction with Canadian-Austrian entrepreneur Walter Wolf followed but it wasn’t until Williams teamed up with Head in 1977 and started all over again that Williams’s F1 fortunes really took off

✪ McLaren has not led a F1 race lap since Jenson Button led lap 14 of the Hungarian GP in 2014. The team has started 64 GP since

BRAZILIAN GRAND PRIX

✪ Mercedes if they win on Sunday will become the first constructor to win 4 Brazilian Grand Prix in a row. They, Ferrari and Red Bull Racing have each won 3 in a row

✪ The race for the past 4 years has been won by the pole position–winning driver

✪ Last year’s race took just over 3 hrs to complete. It is the longest Brazilian Grand Prix in terms of time from start to classified finish in the championship history of the event

 

 

Driver’s Championship standing

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Lewis Hamilton	333
2	Sebastian Vettel	277
3	Valtteri Bottas	262
4	Daniel Ricciardo	192
5	Kimi Raikkonen	178
6	Max Verstappen	148
7	Sergio Perez	92
8	Esteban Ocon	83
9	Carlos Sainz	54
10	Lance Stroll	40
11	Felipe Massa	36
12	Nico Hulkenberg	34
13	Romain Grosjean	28
14	Kevin Magnussen	15
15	Stoffel Vandoorne	13
16	Fernando Alonso	11
17	Jolyon Palmer	8
18	Pascal Wehrlein	5
19	Daniil Kvyat	5
20	Marcus Ericsson	0
21	Pierre Gasly	0
22	Antonio Giovinazzi	0
24	Jenson Button	0
24	Paul di Resta	0

 

Constructor’s Championship standing

Pos	Team	Points
1	Mercedes	595
2	Ferrari	455
3	Red Bull Racing-Tag Heuer	340
4	Force India-Mercedes	175
5	Williams-Mercedes	76
6	Toro Rosso-Renault	53
7	Haas-Ferrari	48
8	Renault	47
9	Mclaren-Honda	24
10	Sauber-Ferrari	5

 

Driver’s penalty points:

Driver	Penalty points
Daniil Kvyat	7
Kevin Magnussen	6
Jolyon Palmer	6
Stoffel Vandoorne	5
Felipe Massa	5
Carlos Sainz	4
Nico Hulkenberg	4
Romain Grosjean	4
Sebastian Vettel	3
Max Verstappen	3
Sergio Perez	3
Kimi Raikkonen	3
Esteban Ocon	2
Pascal Wehrlein	2
Lewis Hamilton	2
Jenson Button	2
Fernando Alonso	2
Marcus Erricson	2
Lance Stroll	1