Sprint Highlights | 2025 Sao Paulo Grand Prix
The title fight continues in five lights time. We’re underway and sprinting to turn number one. Lando Norris gets the reaction time. What’s the second phase like? Pastry side by side with Antonelli. Russell diving to the inside. Aggressive stuff of Vstappen. He gains a position and we see Norris with the race lead. Antonelli in second place. They’re squirming all over the road as they apply the power. Fernando Alonzo lost that position to Max Stappen who is up to P5. It’s Norris. Antelli Pastry in the top three. Antonelli did well to hold second position. Came across towards the dry a bit of track and found some drive as one of the racing bulls finds the grass down towards turn four. I think that was Liam Lawson further back. This is Bman now slow and then he puts Lawson towards the grass and we get pinched down to turn four. Lawson into the side of the house and round goes Oliver Bman. This kid pushes me in the grass and then turns it I don’t know where I’m meant to go. It’s typical also and Hamilton is already up to eighth. Let’s have a look at this off the line for Lewis on the drier part of the circuit but on the medium tires. You got Hulenberg flying down the inside and then just some caution from the inside on on braking this time. The grip comes to Lewis just one car’s width wide of the apex and it’s a nice opportunistic start. The first sector which is the center turn three and into the braking zone of turn four. Antonelli very very confident in the wall in the wall. In the wall and out of the race the slippery conditions but Pastri in the barriers and one of the contenders for the title is out. Oh, another one. Another one in the barriers as Colinto finds himself there as well. And the safety car is out as Pastri finds the barrier at turn three. We get towards the apex of two, get on the throttle and you could just see the white line and the puff of spray that came off on the left hand side and poof, we’re heading to the barriers. It looked treacherous there from the first lap. The drivers were handling it so well, but not finally where we’ve got one and then two and then very soon three cars all finding the barriers on the same lap. We’re on board with Nico Hulenberg. Watch the left front tire. Very ambitious with that all over it. You’ve also got then the ride that’s giving you natural bouncing. Your tires just searching for that little bit of grip. And when you’ve got high speeds and full load, it is it’s so easy to do it. Point is that three of them have done it on the same lap. Red flag. And we have an interruption for a sprint race, which is fairly rare, have to say. The car is just bouncing everywhere. Sterling coffee. Yeah. Okay. We’re just going to try and get you through some recommendations for turn one. Turn one looks really poor. No, this is wet. I have no grip. We are giving you recommendations so that you avoid over steering into the corner every lap, Max. Whether you take them or not is up to you. We’re about to go back racing in Intel Argos. And here we go. This is going to be tight. Remember the confidence that we’ve seen for Kimmy Antonelli. Down to the first turn. Russell side by side with his teammate. The green flag flying once again. lock up for Alonzo and it’s wide for Max Stappen. It’s going to leave him vulnerable to the twotime world champion. The Mercedes are scrapping further up the order. Lando Norris leads. Then it’s Antonelli versus Russell as we plunge down the hill and George Russell’s got the inside line, but it’s greasy off the racing line and into Logos and Russell knows it. He backs away. The scrap between Alonzo and Vstappen is favored at the moment for Max Vstappen. But they were side by side through turn number five. Lots of puddles in the background. Versappen P4 Norris, Antonelli, Russell and Vstapp in the top four. Alonzo soft fired up really nicely and he was just able to force Versappen onto the damp stuff which left him defending corner after corner after corner and somehow he keeps Alonzo behind him. Alonso, I’ll be sure to let him know. Yeah. Further up the road, the battle between the Aston Martin and Fernando Alonzo and Shaolair is on and Alonzo knows it. deviating away from the racing line, then parking it back on that racing line and he hangs on to fifth position. But the Ferrari is attacking. I think Alonzo is going to crack his neck with the amount of time he’s spending looking in the mirror and then forward again and then the mirror again. He is making sure he is positioning that Aston Martin exactly where he needs to be. There’s a gasp from the crowd outside our commentary box because Estonan Okon is soaring the racing ball car in front of Liam Lawson in half, but he’s unable to get by. Okon and Bman both chasing down Lawson, who doesn’t have the pace of his teammate at the moment. Okon has got the racing line and he’s got the pass completed. Nicely done for Estan Okon who’s up to P30. P1 up for grabs in Sao Paulo. Single file through here. But this is where Antonelli has been superlative all the way through. Can he force an error from Norris. Can he put the pressure on and become the second youngest winner in Formula 1 history? We’re running out of laps. Charlair getting close to Fernando Alonzo. Lock up for Fernando Alonzo at the center S’s. And now he’s forced the two-time champion off the ideal racing line. The top two are climbing the hill. to Federadura and you can see descending down to turn four. Charlotte’s finally going to get past Fernando Alonzo in the battle for P5. Charlotte gets past the Aston Martin. So he’s gone straight on into the barriers at the top of the center S hasn’t he? It’s a vast part of the circuit 190 200 mph DRS and he’s looking for a move to the inside and that is an enormous accident. Thank goodness Gabriel Bortletto is all right. And that was what could happen if he went away for the racing line, went for the late breaking move, and I’m so relieved he’s all right. That is an enormous crash. Yeah, the runoff is not big there. So, he comes from the outside, goes across, he’s got a similar thing at a different part of the circuit, but he’s got lateral load on, so he’s turning as he’s breaking there to dive to the inside on the slippery p. You can see the moisture on the circuit. Wow. Fierce. Norris just needs to get a good exit of turn 12 and climb the hill to extend his championship lead. Antonelli made him work all the time, but it’s Lando Norris who comes across the line. He sweeps round turn 15. Lando Norris wins the sprint in Sa Paulo to extend his championship lead to nine points. Antonelli in second, Russell in third, Vstafin in fourth, and then they’re all backing off at the end there. mandated by the yellow flag. So they will cruise across the line with no opportunity of overtaking and it is Shaollair, Fernando Alonzo, Lewis Hamilton and Pierre Gazi back in the points for the first time since the Belgian Grand Prix. Cool. Whatever. Yeah. Um softs are really good. Yeah. Not quick enough really. into Laros full of incidents once again. But it’s Lando Norris who held his nerve and has won the sprint race in Sa Paulo for the second year in a row. Norris, Antonyelli, and Russell the top three.
Catch up on an action-packed Sprint in Sao Paulo, with multiple crashes in the early stages and a huge moment in the battle for the Drivers’ Championship, as changing conditions caused chaos throughout.
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26 Comments
LETS GO LANDO!!!
Bro that crasch from Bortoleto give me flashbacks from the crasch what Sony hays hat
VERY bad tarmac. You can see the wet patch very randomly across the track. This is not normal. Thankfully we didn't had more accidents.
Mercedes always finds a way in Sao Paulo 😊
alonso is always super entertaining to watch when he's fighting at the front. i really hope he has a car to fight for wins next year
6:12 This angle of Bortoletos crash is crazy 😮💨
Max is going to do it
The poisoned imp might win, but he will never be loved by British fans.
Major respect for Max’s engineer, that’s how you manage a world champion! 2:49
Gabriel Bortoleto…
GP spanked Max on the radio! Loved it.
That pothole is a strategic circuit flaw, but I just can't prove it
This might be the worst championship bottlejob in history 😂😂
Go Max ~
The champion is cooking.
im happy for mclaren, i just wish lando didnt turn into such an un likable guy.
🎉🎉 go noris
I'm really happy with the rookies this year, we're getting big performances, big crashes, by mistakes, big wins, no one is covering himself in embarassement, everyone is going hard and truly deserving their seat, it's very cool!
Man I really want to see a Alanso vs Verstappen battle
‘Best drivers in the world’ dropping a wheel on wet, painted curbs.
1:21 perfect cut😅
Yes Norris yes yes
The most boring session ever, piastri hasn't bottled it, he will be world champ.
Justice for yelistener
In his 40s, Fernando is still able to make fights against top teams in that slower AM and become the Spanish Minister of Defense once again
2:37 Max complaining again. How unusual.