The Interlagos circuit, is one of the most eminent and popular on the current Formula One schedule. With rain, title battles and just pure chaos often a feature of the Brazilian race, there are plenty of classic races to look through.
But here are three, of which you can watch on the F1TV app.
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2003
Back when Brazil appeared early on in a championship season, an already interesting, yet puzzling, season was birthed. Yet the Brazilian Grand Prix only intensified the interest and intrigue, with a rain shower opening the door for one of the modern day shocks.
Heading through the Senna ‘S,’ at the beginning of the lap, multiple drivers were caught out and slid off into the barriers. These included Jenson Button, Juan Pablo Montoya and reigning world champion Michael Schumacher.
Elsewhere, Kimi Raikkonen was flourishing and establishing himself as the threat to Schumacher’s crown, having finished on the podium in the year’s first pair of races, which included his breakthrough win at the Malaysian Grand Prix. But his rip-roaring drive saw him make some wonderful overtakes and left him in the lead, until he was passed by Giancarlo Fisichella’s Jordan, whose optimistic fuel strategy brought one of the grid’s less competitive cars to the sharp end.
After a red flag was issued, due to two crashes heading towards the start/finish straight, Raikkonen was given the win. However, the Jordan driver was awarded it, upon review, ahead of the following race at Imola.
At the Italian track, the Italian was given his winner’s trophy for the first time in the sport.
2012
Also in wet conditions, but with a drivers’ championship at stake, Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel led Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso by 13 points. But things would take a sharp turn, when Vettel was spun around on the first lap, while Alonso quickly assumed second. As things stood, he was the world champion- but the next 70 laps flipped the script of what was possible.
2021
Not quite the final race, but with a championship fight at fever pitch, Lewis Hamilton had battled a grid penalty and disqualification from qualifying to duel with his rival, Max Verstappen, for the victory.
Lewis at Interlagos in 2021, you will always be famous 🇧🇷
— Formula 1 (@F1) October 30, 2024
Hamilton made 24 overtakes across the Sprint and Grand Prix as he powered through the field, taking the win on Sunday 🥇#F1 #BrazilGP pic.twitter.com/NGmGvyUB0Q
He went from last to fifth during the Saturday sprint, and blitzed through the pack, from tenth, and was just about keeping his title hopes alive. His first attempt at an overtake, to the outside of the Dutchman heading into turn four, he was forced off. The second time around, he could not find a way passed, again.
But at the third attempt, on lap 59, the DRS and the W12’s peerless straight-line speed enabled him to claim the position before the braking zone.