F1 Grand Prix Brazil: Hamilton wins in São Paulo and reduces Verstappen’s lead

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The English seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) won Sunday the Brazilian Grand Prix – São Paulo this year – the nineteenth of the F1 World Championship, in which he is in second place the Dutch Max Verstappen (Red Bull), who remains at the top of the championship, but now with 14 points more than Hamilton with three races to go.

Hamilton, who started tenth, was on display as he moved up nine places to extend his own all-time record of wins in the F1 class to 101 by winning at Interlagos, where his Finnish teammate Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) was third, and Mexico’s Sergio Pérez (Red Bull), who set the fastest lap in the race, was fourth.

Spaniards Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) and Fernando Alonso (Alpine) finished sixth and ninth, respectively, the nineteenth of the year’s 23 races.

Monegasque Charles Leclerc, Sainz’s teammate in the ‘Scuderia’, was fifth; while Frenchmen Pierre Gasly (Alpha Tauri) and Esteban Ocon (Alpine) were seventh and eighth in Sao Paulo.

Englishman Lando Norris (McLaren), who finished tenth, was also in the points in Brazil.