ROUND 21: 🇧🇷 Brazil
FORMULA 1 MSC CRUISES GRANDE PREMIO DE SAO PAULO 2025
Circuit stats
- Circuit name: Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace
- First Grand Prix: 1973
- Number of laps: 71
- Circuit Length: 4.309 km
- Race Distance: 305.939 km
- Lap record: 1:10.540 Valtteri Bottas (2018)
- 2024 winner: Max Verstappen
Track Map



It wasn’t just the engine. They didn’t know how hopeless the car was before running in quali, and needed to break parc ferme to change the cars setup, which would have been a pitlane start regardless of engine change. The engine was more an added bonus.