00:00And it's lights out, away we go, and Sebastian Vettel did get a better start, but it's a short run down to the line, and Verstappen covers him off, Hamilton is trying to squeeze around the outside, and does so, there's a look up behind, but it's Verstappen, Hamilton, Vettel, and then Valtteri Bottas, Alex Albon, and Pierre Gasly, as they head down the hill, Raikkonen tucked in behind Romain Grosjean, Kevin Magnussen, wheel to wheel there, with Fernando Norris and the McLaren, but it's Verstappen out in front, and pulling away.
00:28This is Charles Leclerc and Daniel Ricciardo, Leclerc is up to 13th already on the inside, trying to squeeze past the Renault, he might just have done it, he has, and now he's got past Lando Norris as well, and very, very good reactions from Lando Norris to avoid the Ferrari crashing into him, Norris gets that place back, but it's a straight drag now, all the way to the finish line, and you get the feeling Leclerc's going to win out that one.
00:531.3 seconds, Verstappen ahead of Hamilton, and we look back now to see Romain Grosjean under pressure from Kimi Raikkonen, Charles Leclerc ahead of Lando Norris, Daniel Ricciardo going around the outside of Lando Norris as well.
01:06Yeah, Lando wasn't giving up, was he? He came back at Leclerc, Leclerc gave him a bit of a swipe to get him off the throttle, but he came straight back at him, great racing there from all of them.
01:14And he came straight back at Daniel Ricciardo, and he's almost pushing him off onto the grass there, I think Ricciardo did touch the grass, as Norris aggressively defending that in 12th place.
01:27Renault on 83 points behind McLaren on 121, Ricciardo down the inside, into Deschino de Largo, oh he locks up, Magnussen spins round as they make contact, and it's damage to the front wing of Daniel Ricciardo's Renault.
01:40That had tears written all over it, didn't it? Dan Deere on the brakes, Daniel Ricciardo.
01:45And have decided that Daniel Ricciardo is worthy of a five second time penalty.
01:52They're bringing Lewis Hamilton first, don't miss this shot, they said Lewis, and this is the undercut attempt, and it's soft tyres that go on for Lewis Hamilton.
02:02Box, pick and firm, Max, box, pick and firm.
02:04Let's go down to Ted Kravitz, as we can see.
02:06It's the only choice they had, it's the only choice they had, they had a little bit of a gap, it's not much,
02:10has it been hammer time, I can see Hamilton's set a quickest middle sector, this stop needs to be perfect, it's a great start.
02:16It's a sub two second stop for Max Verstappen, who then has to stop, as the Williams of Kibitza comes out of his pit box.
02:23That has held up Verstappen, the crew did their best for him, but that Williams coming out at the wrong time for Verstappen,
02:30has cost him the advantage over Lewis Hamilton.
02:33Naughty of Williams to release that car into the path of Verstappen.
02:37There will be another pit stop coming for Verstappen to try and make his way past Lewis Hamilton.
02:43Hamilton, neat move there on Leclerc, if he can make that stick through Magulio, and he does, Verstappen on the inside, tries to get past as well.
02:51And now the gloves are really going to come off here, because after the opening spars and jams,
02:56is Verstappen poised to land a knockout blow on Lewis Hamilton?
02:59Yeah, great move there, Lewis needed to get that done, it's just not working out for Ferrari at all.
03:05Here goes Verstappen, Lewis tries to cover him off, Verstappen through at turn one,
03:10and he has made amends for getting held up in the pit lane at the earliest available opportunity.
03:16That was brilliant from Max Verstappen.
03:19And now Hamilton's got the DRS down towards turn four, Verstappen goes on the defensive,
03:24and he'll be at more of an acute angle into the corner, has he got it covered? He has.
03:30Smoke coming out of the back of Valtteri Bottas' Mercedes engine, it looks like it, doesn't it?
03:36Oh, that's a huge shame for Valtteri Bottas' first retirement since Germany.
03:42Safety car, full safety car.
03:44Well, well, well, safety car.
03:47Box, box, opposite Verstappen.
03:49And this could make things very interesting indeed in this race.
03:53So if there are a few cars in between Hamilton and Verstappen on the track,
03:57I think most of those are lapped cars and will get out of the way.
04:03He's still trying to get a bit of temperature into his tyres Lewis Hamilton,
04:06as now he goes, Alex Albon all over the back of Sebastian Vettel.
04:10He's got a decent jump, Casley's right on the tail of Charles Leclerc as well.
04:13Albon is going right at Sebastian Vettel here,
04:15as Max Verstappen over the hill comes wheel-to-wheel with Lewis Hamilton.
04:20Round the outside of Turn 1, he goes.
04:22Verstappen's got the restart sorted.
04:24That was fantastic.
04:26Albon's got a head of the two Ferraris.
04:29Leclerc now gets shoved wide by Sebastian Vettel.
04:32Verstappen leads.
04:33Hamilton coming back.
04:34Then comes Albon and Vettel.
04:36Verstappen and Hamilton wheel-to-wheel to the Cina de Lago.
04:39And Hamilton just has to back out.
04:41There was no more room for him.
04:43Albon still has Vettel right on his tail.
04:45Which way is Vettel going to go?
04:46He's going to have to stick behind the Red Bull there.
04:49Charles Leclerc slots in behind his teammate.
04:51Then comes Pierre Gasly.
04:52Sainz-Reichmann and Giovinati and Grosjean in the points.
04:57Charles Leclerc, by the way, could have clinched third place today.
05:00Needed to outscore Verstappen by 13 points and Vettel by 8 points.
05:04And at the moment, no, he just wants to get past his teammate.
05:07Which he does.
05:08Charles Leclerc down the inside of Sebastian Vettel.
05:11And he moves himself up into fourth place.
05:13Vettel will get DRS down the red to riposte.
05:16Can he now fight back?
05:18Leclerc made it very tough earlier.
05:20Oh, no, he's got a puncture.
05:21They made contact.
05:22And Charles Leclerc's got a puncture caused by contact with his teammate Sebastian Vettel.
05:27Oh, and Vettel's got problems too.
05:29And this is totally self-inflicted here for Ferrari.
05:33Safety car's been deployed.
05:35Punture.
05:36Mein Gott, muss das sein.
05:38Sein, f*** de ball.
05:39And Alex Albon has Hamilton troubles here as he turns in.
05:46Oh, and Lewis Hamilton makes contact with Alex Albon.
05:49His first podium in Formula One is then spinning and drifting away
05:54in the infield and into Lagos.
05:56Oh, Alex, he left the door too.
05:58He left the door wide open.
06:00It was such an invitation for Lewis Hamilton there.
06:04Max Verstappen gets his foot down for one last time towards the line.
06:08Lewis Hamilton tries to make his way where he got past Timo Glock in 2008
06:13and Junsao to get past Gasly.
06:15The checkered flag is out.
06:16The Brazilian Grand Prix goes to Max Verstappen.
06:19A year after he finished second and had it taken away in his redemption day.
06:24Hamilton finds Gasly to the line.
06:26Gasly comes home to take second place by less than a tenth of a second
06:32and win his first podium in Formula One.
06:36It's a Samba celebration here in Brazil.
06:39Well, the championship decided and we thought we might have a bit of fun,
06:44but boy, were we treated to a magnificent Brazilian Grand Prix.
