São Paulo 2024: Race analysis

At a glance

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap
1	Norris	McLaren	1:30.944	1:24.844	1:23.405
2	Russell	Mercedes	1:29.121	1:26.307	1:23.578	+0.173
3	Tsunoda	RB	1:29.172	1:26.464	1:24.111	+0.706
4	Ocon	Alpine	1:29.171	1:26.206	1:24.475	+1.070
5	Lawson	RB	1:30.758	1:25.654	1:24.484	+1.079
6	Leclerc	Ferrari	1:29.839	1:26.097	1:24.525	+1.120
7	Albon	Williams	1:29.072	1:25.889	1:24.657	+1.252
8	Piastri	McLaren	1:30.114	1:25.179	1:24.686	+1.281
9	Alonso	Aston Martin	1:30.207	1:25.035	1:28.998	+5.593
10	Stroll	Aston Martin	1:30.580	1:26.334		+1.490
11	Bottas	Kick Sauber	1:30.633	1:26.472		+1.628
12	Verstappen	Red Bull	1:28.522	1:27.771		+2.927
13	Pérez	Red Bull	1:30.035	1:28.158		+3.314
14	Sainz Jr.	Ferrari	1:30.303	1:29.406		+4.562
15	Gasly	Alpine	1:29.420	1:29.614		+4.770
16	Hamilton	Mercedes	1:31.150			+2.628
17	Bearman	Haas	1:31.229			+2.707
18	Colapinto	Williams	1:31.270			+2.748
19	Hülkenberg	Haas	1:31.623			+3.101
20	Zhou	Kick Sauber	1:32.263			+3.741

Gap to the fastest time in the last session the driver took part in. Yellow: fastest time of the session.

Pos	Driver	Team	SQ1	SQ2	SQ3	Gap
1	Piastri	McLaren	1:10.265	1:09.239	1:08.899
2	Norris	McLaren	1:09.477	1:09.063	1:08.928	+0.029
3	Leclerc	Ferrari	1:10.388	1:09.248	1:09.153	+0.254
4	Verstappen	Red Bull	1:10.409	1:09.489	1:09.219	+0.320
5	Sainz Jr.	Ferrari	1:10.503	1:09.500	1:09.257	+0.358
6	Russell	Mercedes	1:10.479	1:09.683	1:09.443	+0.544
7	Gasly	Alpine	1:10.630	1:09.610	1:09.622	+0.723
8	Lawson	RB	1:10.576	1:09.827	1:09.941	+1.042
9	Albon	Williams	1:10.366	1:09.844	1:10.078	+1.179
10	Bearman	Haas	1:10.442	1:09.629		+0.566
11	Hamilton	Mercedes	1:10.625	1:09.941		+0.878
12	Hülkenberg	Haas	1:10.466	1:09.964		+0.901
13	Pérez	Red Bull	1:10.392	1:10.024		+0.961
14	Colapinto	Williams	1:10.470	1:10.275		+1.212
15	Bottas	Kick Sauber	1:10.861	1:10.595		+1.532
16	Alonso	Aston Martin	1:10.978			+1.501
17	Ocon	Alpine	1:11.052			+1.575
18	Tsunoda	RB	1:11.121			+1.644
19	Stroll	Aston Martin	1:11.280			+1.803
20	Zhou	Kick Sauber	1:12.978			+3.501

Gap to the fastest time in the last session the driver took part in. Yellow: fastest time of the session.

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Gap	Points
1	Norris	McLaren	2	29:46.045	8
2	Piastri	McLaren	1	+0.593	7
3	Leclerc	Ferrari	3	+5.656	6
4	Verstappen	Red Bull	4	+6.497	5
5	Sainz Jr.	Ferrari	5	+7.224	4
6	Russell	Mercedes	6	+12.475	3
7	Gasly	Alpine	7	+18.161	2
8	Pérez	Red Bull	13	+18.717	1
9	Lawson	RB	8	+20.773
10	Albon	Williams	9	+24.606
11	Hamilton	Mercedes	11	+29.764
12	Colapinto	Williams	14	+33.233
13	Ocon	Alpine	16	+34.128
14	Bearman	Haas	10	+35.507
15	Tsunoda	RB	17	+41.374
16	Bottas	Kick Sauber	15	+43.231
17	Zhou	Kick Sauber	PL	+54.139
18	Alonso	Aston Martin	PL	+56.537
19	Stroll	Aston Martin	PL	+57.983
DNF	Hülkenberg	Haas	12	Gearbox

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Laps	Gap	Stops	Engine
1	Max VerstappenFastest lapDriver of the Day	Red Bull	17	69	2:06:54.430	1	Honda RBPT
2	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	4	69	+19.477	1	Renault
3	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	13	69	+22.532	1	Renault
4	George Russell	Mercedes	2	69	+23.265	2	Mercedes
5	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	6	69	+30.177	2	Ferrari
6	Lando Norris	McLaren	1	69	+31.372	2	Mercedes
7	Yuki Tsunoda	RB	3	69	+42.056	2	Honda RBPT
8	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	8	69	+44.943	2	Mercedes
9	Liam Lawson	RB	5	69	+50.452	2	Honda RBPT
10	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	14	69	+50.753	2	Mercedes
11	Sergio Pérez	Red Bull	12	69	+51.531	2	Honda RBPT
12	Oliver Bearman	Haas	15	69	+57.085	2	Ferrari
13	Valtteri Bottas	Kick Sauber	11	69	+1:03.588	1	Ferrari
14	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	9	69	+1:18.049	2	Mercedes
15	Guanyu Zhou	Kick Sauber	19	69	+1:19.649	4	Ferrari
DNF	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Ferrari	PL	38	Accident	2	Ferrari
DNF	Franco Colapinto	Williams	16	30	Accident	2	Mercedes
DNS	Alexander Albon	Williams	7	0	Car damaged in qualifying	0	Mercedes
DNS	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	10	0	Accident	0	Mercedes
DSQ	Nico Hülkenberg	Haas	18		Received outside assistance	3	Ferrari

Starting grid vs qualifying

Verstappen Qualified 12, started 17 · 5-place penalty
Sainz Jr. Qualified 14, started PL

Penalties and pit lane starts. Everyone else moves up accordingly.

Race

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Places gained

Verstappen17→1+16
Gasly13→3+10
Hamilton14→10+4
Zhou19→15+4
Bearman15→12+3
Ocon4→2+2
Leclerc6→5+1
Pérez12→11+1
Piastri8→80
Russell2→4-2
Bottas11→13-2
Tsunoda3→7-4
Lawson5→9-4
Norris1→6-5
Alonso9→14-5

PL: started from the pit lane. Retired drivers are listed below.

Fastest pit stops

1Leclerc24.573R24
2Norris24.764R28
3Alonso25.107R27
4Hamilton25.205R27
5Colapinto25.239R30
6Zhou25.248R27
7Colapinto25.287R26
8Hülkenberg25.369R25
9Tsunoda25.431R28
10Russell25.698R28

Time in the pit lane from entry to exit, in seconds.

Stints of the top 10

Verstappen32371 stop
Ocon32371 stop
Gasly32371 stop
Russell284372 stops
Leclerc248372 stops
Norris284372 stops
Tsunoda284372 stops
Piastri275372 stops
Lawson284372 stops
Hamilton275372 stops

Stint length in laps, worked out from the pit stops. Which tyre compound was used per stint needs a licence for timing data, so it is not shown here. Lapped drivers covered fewer laps, so their bar ends earlier.

Retirements

Sainz Jr.AccidentFerrari
ColapintoAccidentWilliams
AlbonCar damaged in qualifyingWilliams
StrollAccidentAston Martin
HülkenbergReceived outside assistanceHaas

This race in history

40 races here since 1973Won from pole: 17 of 40

Win from furthest back (P10): Lewis Hamilton 2021

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Statistics: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk and contributors, licence CC BY 4.0, prepared by Hotlap Delta.

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