F1 has enjoyed its fair share of stunning and spectacular moments at the BrazilGP over the years - but which are the most magical? 🇧🇷 We've picked out our favourites - and you can roll back the years right here ⬇️
The Brazilian Grand Prix has been a staple of the Formula 1 calendar since its first edition held in 1973 at Interlagos, the scene for all but 10 races staged at the Jacarepagua track in Rio between 1978 and 1989.
Here’s the set-up. Emerson Fittipaldi had become Brazil’s first grand prix winner in 1970 and its first world champion in 1972. But while neighbouring Argentina already had a long association with F1, Brazil had never featured on the championship schedule. Fittipaldi’s success had increased the clamour to change that, which led to a non-points Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos early in Emerson’s first title-winning season. The home hero, who’d grown up right there in Sao Paulo, duly took pole.
But Fittipaldi was gone. By half distance, his lead “looked a lot more permanent than many South American governments” according to the tongue-in-cheek , and he ended up beating Stewart by 14 seconds, with Peterson’s retirement leaving the way open for McLaren’s Denny Hulme to complete the podium. The latter shared a new lap record with Fittipaldi – though it still took a whopping 2m35.0s to navigate the bumpy, weirdly-cambered Paulista twister in those days.
Piquet and Rosberg closed on Villeneuve and put the Ferrari driver under immense pressure, while also swapping places. On lap 30, Villeneuve finally made a mistake as Piquet attacked, running wide and then spinning out, narrowly missing the Brabham. Piquet and Rosberg were disqualified, eventually leading to a FOCA boycott of the following month’s San Marino GP. An unsatisfactory end to an enthralling event.Warwick was set to win on his first start for Renault before suspension failure following Lauda brush put him outNiki Lauda wasn’t renowned for handing out gifts to his team-mates during his illustrious F1 career, but in 1984 he did just that in Rio.
Prost had made a poor start from fourth on the grid and battled his way back from 10th on the opening lap. On lap 24, Prost also passed Warwick to make it a McLaren 1-2. He was 12 seconds behind Lauda at this point, but the Austrian slowed dramatically a few laps later due to an electrical failure – a simple wiring fault to the battery.
Meantime, this race also witnessed the debut of Ayrton Senna in F1 with Toleman. It lasted only eight laps before his Hart engine’s turbo failed, but his running that weekend in practice had left its mark onHe wrote: “Senna quickly underlined that he has all the hallmarks of a future champion… The initial impression is one of a cocky youngster who could do with a clip round the ear – but watching him manhandle the Toleman round Rio left the writer suffused with enthusiasm.
But Montoya's race came to an ignominious end at half-distance while lapping Arrows' Jos Verstappen; the Dutchman went off-line to allow the Williams through at Descida do Lago, but clouted into the back of the leader in the braking zone and ended Montoya's hopes of a maiden F1 victory. The lack of a full wet tyre, due to a pre-season rule change that meant rivalling suppliers Bridgestone and Michelin could only bring one compound , which caused the race start to be delayed and several cars to aquaplane on the river of water at Turn 3. The home hero set for glory thwarted by the rarest of eventualities - an unreliable Ferrari. And confusion over the identity of the winner following a red flag countback that meant the result was changed not once but twice.
It had been the only lap he led all day. Raikkonen's team-mate David Coulthard was left to rue the timing of his scheduled lap 52 stop, which denied him a likely second victory from the opening three races of the campaign and left him fourth, while poleman Rubens Barrichello had passed the Scot after a Turn 1 error and was pulling away before being stranded at the roadside on lap 47, out of fuel, after a misfire caused higher-than-anticipated consumption.
At the start, Schumacher dived into the action to gain four spots on the first lap, including a fine double pass on the battling BMW drivers at Turn 4. Schumacher charged back through the field after his puncture, Kubica among his victims as the German finished fourthIt was a stunning re-rise from soon-to-be ex-Ferrari driver, Schumacher then heading towards his first retirement. It must be noted that few of his passes were defended hard – and Fisichella actually fell off the road when Schumacher came back by – other than Raikkonen, his Ferrari replacement, who put in a tough squeeze at Turn 1.
Alonso admitted going into the race on Sunday that, with a 13-point deficit to Vettel, his best chance lay with a DNF for the German driver and him capitalising rather than making it up on outright performance. Vettel had more drama to face in his recovery to the title as Red Bull failed to get his intermediates ready for his second stop in three laps when the rain returned. But he held firm in the points, and, with a little help from old friend and mentor Michael Schumacher, in his final F1 start, was able to do enough to clinch the title.
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