Official 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix Thread ***SPOILERS***

Official 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix Thread ***SPOILERS***

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The Moose

Original Poster:

22,821 posts

208 months

Thursday 14th November 2019
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Here we go Brazil!

November 15th, 16th and 17th

Broadcast Timings, local time (and EST time)

All sessions are live on Sky F1 & Highlights on Channel 4, note that the C4. ESPN for USA

Session Day Local Session Time UK Time EST Sky Time Channel 4
Practice 1 Fri 11:00-12:30 14:00-15:30 09:00-10:30 14:00 ----
Practice 2 Fri 15:00-16:30 18:00-19:30 13:00-14:30 18:00 ----
Practice 3 Sat 12:00-13:00 15:00-16:00 10:00-11:00 15:00 ----
Qualifying Sat 15:00-16:00 18:00-19:00 13:00-14:00 18:00 22:50
Race Sun 14:10 17:10 12:10 15:30 22:30


Autódromo José Carlos Pace for the FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN GRANDE PRÊMIO DO BRASIL 2019


Race Stats
First Grand Prix 1973
Number of Laps 71
Circuit Length 4.309km
Race Distance 305.909km
Lap Record 1:10.540 - Valtteri Bottas (2018)


Live timing for all sessions available here:

https://www.formula1.com/en/f1-live.html

Weather forecast:

http://www.myweather2.com/Motor-Racing/Brazil/Inte...

Event timings, steward decisions, technical reports and laptimes for the weekend will appear here:

https://www.fia.com/events/fia-formula-one-world-c...

Tire Selection


2018 Quali Results


2018 Race Results


Now that Lewis has been crowned for a 6th time, will he keep the pressure up, or as per other years will he now just take it easy getting ready for 2020?

Edited by The Moose on Thursday 14th November 17:48

ajprice

27,319 posts

195 months

Thursday 14th November 2019
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For these last two races, now that Mercedes have the titles sewn up, it's between Leclerc, Verstappen and Vettel for P3 in the championship.

Charles Leclerc 249
Max Verstappen 235
Sebastian Vettel 230

Leclerc has a 10 place grid penalty for a new engine, but the top 3 teams can usually get back to at least P6 when they get a big penalty. Should be an interesting couple of races, especially with how Ferrari play any team orders if there are any.

TheInternet

4,703 posts

162 months

Thursday 14th November 2019
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Thanks OP! Proper table for the timings also, none of that screengrab corner cutting for you!

ps. UK race time should be 17:10

TheDeuce

21,275 posts

65 months

Thursday 14th November 2019
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ajprice said:
For these last two races, now that Mercedes have the titles sewn up, it's between Leclerc, Verstappen and Vettel for P3 in the championship.

Charles Leclerc 249
Max Verstappen 235
Sebastian Vettel 230

Leclerc has a 10 place grid penalty for a new engine, but the top 3 teams can usually get back to at least P6 when they get a big penalty. Should be an interesting couple of races, especially with how Ferrari play any team orders if there are any.
As ever this year I'm sure the front 6 will be locking horns by the end.

What's really exciting is that both bottas and Lewis are now effectively free to take risks and have fun, battling each other or the other four. And as you illustrate, Charles, Max & Seb all DO have something to fight for that matters in these last couple of races.

Very much looking forward to this one! This season has been excellent.

thegreenhell

15,115 posts

218 months

Thursday 14th November 2019
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Current forecast is for showers on Saturday afternoon, but dry for the race on Sunday.

The Moose

Original Poster:

22,821 posts

208 months

Thursday 14th November 2019
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TheInternet said:
ps. UK race time should be 17:10
Good job spotting my deliberate mistake. I wanted to make sure someone actually read it...

rdjohn

6,135 posts

194 months

Thursday 14th November 2019
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Another circuit that I think we will miss if it gets switched.

Always seems to be much greater than the sum of its parts.

tobinen

9,184 posts

144 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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Barring any silliness, one would imagine ALB will secure 6th. SAI should win 'best of the rest'

6 Alexander Albon THA RED BULL RACING HONDA 84
7 Carlos Sainz ESP MCLAREN RENAULT 80
8 Pierre Gasly FRA SCUDERIA TORO ROSSO HONDA 77

Deesee

8,331 posts

82 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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Thanks Moose,

A Fantastic track whose layout changes with the weather.

One not to miss, always action packed.

TheDeuce

21,275 posts

65 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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Looks dry right now: https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/brasil/ba...

- closest webcam I could find that worked..

Mark-C

5,010 posts

204 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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Deesee said:
Thanks Moose,

A Fantastic track whose layout changes with the weather.

One not to miss, always action packed.
I'd echo this smile

Deesee

8,331 posts

82 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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& if anyone is interested in the World Cup Racing at the Macau GP this weekend..

The FIA are broadcasting FOC..

Guide & times and link to the streaming.

https://www.fia.com/news/macau-grand-prix-live-str...


Jabbah

1,331 posts

153 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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The Moose said:
Now that Lewis has been crowned for a 6th time, will he keep the pressure up, or as per other years will he now just take it easy getting ready for 2020?
Remind me again who won the last two GPs of 2018? Does seem to be true for other years, however he is chasing records now. Certainly didn't seem to be content with just getting the WDC at COTA, wanted the win too.

oyster

12,577 posts

247 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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Am I the only one who is a bit nonplussed about this race (and Abu Dhabi)?
Not because the title is settled, but because it's just so damn late in the year, it feels like the season should be over now.

The first Abu Dhabi GP was in 2009 and it was the season ender - it was over the Halloween weekend.
I remember waking up early to watch the Senna-era title deciders in Suzuka and that was early/mid October.

Mark-C

5,010 posts

204 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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oyster said:
Am I the only one who is a bit nonplussed about this race (and Abu Dhabi)?
Not because the title is settled, but because it's just so damn late in the year, it feels like the season should be over now.

The first Abu Dhabi GP was in 2009 and it was the season ender - it was over the Halloween weekend.
I remember waking up early to watch the Senna-era title deciders in Suzuka and that was early/mid October.
The world moves on ... not always for the better but there is not a lot to be done about it!

For me I welcome the chance to spend 90 minutes of a miserable November afternoon in a work meeting watching FP1 unfold on the BBC website on my laptop whilst looking like I'm taking notes biggrin

thegreenhell

15,115 posts

218 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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Soggy circuit for FP1.

TheDeuce

21,275 posts

65 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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thegreenhell said:
Soggy circuit for FP1.
Soggy is an understatement smile

Kind of pointless this session, what can they learn from trundling around at comedy speeds?? But I'm happy to stay with it for the next hour - it seems likely my patience will be rewarded with an incident at some point. Also, talk of inters on the radio just now.. Although to my eye it looks very, very wet in places still.

Jasandjules

69,825 posts

228 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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thegreenhell said:
Soggy circuit for FP1.
Soggy? Are you Noah?

Mark-C

5,010 posts

204 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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TheDeuce said:
thegreenhell said:
Soggy circuit for FP1.
Soggy is an understatement smile

Kind of pointless this session, what can they learn from trundling around at comedy speeds?? But I'm happy to stay with it for the next hour - it seems likely my patience will be rewarded with an incident at some point. Also, talk of inters on the radio just now.. Although to my eye it looks very, very wet in places still.
BBC Feed: Ricciardo says the track is drying and the inters are no good anymore. Back to the pits for him.

Some hope yet (and this meeting is as dull as expected) ...

TheDeuce

21,275 posts

65 months

Friday 15th November 2019
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Mark-C said:
BBC Feed: Ricciardo says the track is drying and the inters are no good anymore. Back to the pits for him.

Some hope yet (and this meeting is as dull as expected) ...
I have to be honest, my attention keeps wandering away from the screen smile

FP2 should be far better, they'll be running quali sims on a (probably) dry track, without the benefit of any relevant FP1 dry practice.