F1 Brazil GP live: qualifying start times, schedule, stream and sprint race results

“Try and leave it behind me, we’ll see what our weather is like this morning, but there’s a lot more on offer tomorrow.”

“It was tough. When you have races like this it makes the win more rewarding, Kimi didn’t make my life easier. You have to push, but it was incomplete.

“I expected the Softs to be better but the Mercedes were faster, so I was under pressure all week. We have some homework to do before the Qualifiers.

On qualifying: “Today is different from yesterday, they will put us under pressure and it’s just short gaps.”

1. Lando Norris – McLaren (eight points)

2. Kimi Antonelli – Mercedes (Love)

3. George Russell – Mercedes (Six)

4. Max Verstappen – Red Bull (five)

5. Charles Leclerc – Ferrari (four)

6. Fernando Alonso – Aston Martin (three)

7. Lewis Hamilton – Ferrari (two)

8. Pierre Gasly – Alpine (one)

Tell you what – it’s a huge shunt.

Bortoletto goes to pass Alex Albon on the inside on the main straight, but loses control and hits the inside wall before hitting the outside wall of Turn 1.

That sober will repair something.

Norris scored a valuable eight points, increasing his championship lead to nine!

Kimi Antonelli and George Russell complete the top three, with Max Verstappen fourth.

5-8: Leclerc, Alonso, Hamilton, Gasly

Thankfully, Bortoletto is OK. But it was a big old shunt as he went off the track at Turn 1!

Norris seems to have got it.

He is still far ahead…

Meanwhile, home hero Gabriel Bortoletto suffers a big blow at Turn 1!

Leclerc sticks it on the inside at Turn 4, moving up to fifth for the Ferrari driver.

Meanwhile, Norris has two more laps to survive. McLaren remains strong…

This sprint race is not over yet!

Antonelli has DRS and it’s right on Norris’ gearbox.

This will be a fun finale!

Top-8: Norris, Antonelli, Russell, Verstappen, Alonso, Leclerc, Hamilton, Stroll

The closest battle on track is the battle for fifth place, with Leclerc just 0.4 seconds clear of Alonso.

Norris’ lead over Antonelli remains around 1.3 seconds.

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