Race · Round 20 of 21 · 11 November 2018

2018 Brazilian Grand Prix

Sir Lewis Hamilton won for Mercedes from pole at Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace (Interlagos). 2 of the starters were not classified.

Dry, with cloud · High of 26 °C, 3.3 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace (Interlagos)Sao Paulo, Brazil
Winner: Sir Lewis HamiltonMercedes
Pole: Sir Lewis Hamilton
Fastest lap: Valtteri Bottas
Entries: 2018 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	F1 W09	1	71	Finished	25
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	RB14	5	71	Finished	18
3	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	SF71H	4	71	Finished	15
4	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	RB14	11	71	Finished	12
5	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	F1 W09	3	71	Finished	10	fastest lap
6	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	SF71H	2	71	Finished	8
7	Charles Leclerc	Sauber	C37	7	71	Finished	6
8	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	VF-18	8	71	Finished	4
9	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	VF-18	10	71	Finished	2
10	Sergio Perez	Force India	VJM11	12	70	Finished	1
11	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR13	16	70	Finished	0
12	Carlos Sainz	Renault	R.S.18	15	70	Finished	0
13	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR13	9	70	Finished	0
14	Esteban Ocon	Force India	VJM11	18	70	Finished	0
15	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	MCL33	20	70	Finished	0
16	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	FW41	14	69	Finished	0
17	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	MCL33	17	69	Finished	0
18	Lance Stroll	Williams	FW41	19	69	Finished	0
DNF	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	R.S.18	13	32	Overheating	0
DNF	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	C37	6	20	Collision damage	0

F1DB layout interlagos-2 · 4.309 km · 15 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Sir Lewis Hamilton	1	1	71
Max Verstappen	5	2	71
Kimi Raikkonen	4	3	71
Daniel Ricciardo	11	4	71
Valtteri Bottas	3	5	71
Sebastian Vettel	2	6	71
Charles Leclerc	7	7	71
Romain Grosjean	8	8	71
Kevin Magnussen	10	9	71
Sergio Perez	12	10	70
Brendon Hartley	16	11	70
Carlos Sainz	15	12	70
Pierre Gasly	9	13	70
Esteban Ocon	18	14	70
Stoffel Vandoorne	20	15	70
Sergey Sirotkin	14	16	69
Fernando Alonso	17	17	69
Lance Stroll	19	18	69
Nico Hulkenberg	13	DNF	32
Marcus Ericsson	6	DNF	20

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:08.464	1:07.795	1:07.281	—	0 m	—
2	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:08.452	1:07.776	1:07.374	+0.093	6 m	+0.093
3	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:08.492	1:07.727	1:07.441	+0.160	10 m	+0.067
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	7	1:08.452	1:08.028	1:07.456	+0.175	11 m	+0.015
5	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:08.205	1:08.017	1:07.778	+0.497	32 m	+0.322
6	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	3	1:08.544	1:08.055	1:07.780	+0.499	32 m	+0.002
7	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	9	1:08.754	1:08.579	1:08.296	+1.015	65 m	+0.516
8	Charles Leclerc	Sauber	16	1:08.667	1:08.335	1:08.492	+1.211	78 m	+0.196
9	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:08.735	1:08.239	1:08.517	+1.236	79 m	+0.025
10	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso	10	1:09.046	1:08.616	1:09.029	+1.748	112 m	+0.512
11	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:08.474	1:08.659	—	—	59 m	—
12	Sergio Perez	Force India	11	1:09.217	1:08.741	—	—	65 m	—
13	Esteban Ocon	Force India	31	1:09.264	1:08.770	—	—	66 m	—
14	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	27	1:09.009	1:08.834	—	—	70 m	—
15	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	35	1:09.259	1:10.381	—	—	169 m	—
16	Carlos Sainz	Renault	55	1:09.269	—	—	—	67 m	—
17	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso	28	1:09.280	—	—	—	68 m	—
18	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	14	1:09.402	—	—	—	76 m	—
19	Lance Stroll	Williams	18	1:09.441	—	—	—	78 m	—
20	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	2	1:09.601	—	—	—	88 m	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year. Each driver is measured against the fastest lap of the last part they set a time in.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Sir Lewis Hamilton	1	71	1	19	22.6
Max Verstappen	2	71	1	35	23.4
Kimi Raikkonen	3	71	1	31	22.8
Daniel Ricciardo	4	71	1	39	23.3
Valtteri Bottas	5	71	2	18, 59	23.0, 22.7
Sebastian Vettel	6	71	2	27, 53	22.6, 22.7
Charles Leclerc	7	71	1	35	23.6
Romain Grosjean	8	71	1	32	23.4
Kevin Magnussen	9	71	1	41	23.1
Sergio Perez	10	70	1	39	23.5
Brendon Hartley	11	70	1	49	23.4
Carlos Sainz	12	70	2	25, 48	23.9, 23.8
Pierre Gasly	13	70	1	22	23.8
Esteban Ocon	14	70	2	40, 57	27.2, 31.2
Stoffel Vandoorne	15	70	1	28	22.6
Sergey Sirotkin	16	69	1	16	23.3
Fernando Alonso	17	69	2	15, 54	33.8, 23.0
Lance Stroll	18	69	2	17, 65	24.6, 24.3
Nico Hulkenberg	DNF	32	0	None recorded	—
Marcus Ericsson	DNF	20	1	18	23.4

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Max Verstappen	1 · 5	1 · 2	19 · 35	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Sebastian Vettel	1 · 2	1 · 6	19 · 27	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Kept their order
Kimi Raikkonen · Max Verstappen	4 · 5	3 · 2	31 · 35	Kimi Raikkonen	Swapped places
Valtteri Bottas · Kimi Raikkonen	3 · 4	5 · 3	18 · 31	Valtteri Bottas	Swapped places
Kimi Raikkonen · Daniel Ricciardo	4 · 11	3 · 4	31 · 39	Kimi Raikkonen	Kept their order
Valtteri Bottas · Daniel Ricciardo	3 · 11	5 · 4	18 · 39	Valtteri Bottas	Swapped places
Kevin Magnussen · Daniel Ricciardo	10 · 11	9 · 4	41 · 39	Daniel Ricciardo	Swapped places
Daniel Ricciardo · Sergio Perez	11 · 12	4 · 10	39 · 39	Same lap	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Valtteri Bottas	2 · 3	6 · 5	27 · 18	Valtteri Bottas	Swapped places
Sebastian Vettel · Charles Leclerc	2 · 7	6 · 7	27 · 35	Sebastian Vettel	Kept their order
Charles Leclerc · Romain Grosjean	7 · 8	7 · 8	35 · 32	Romain Grosjean	Kept their order
Romain Grosjean · Kevin Magnussen	8 · 10	8 · 9	32 · 41	Romain Grosjean	Kept their order
Romain Grosjean · Pierre Gasly	8 · 9	8 · 13	32 · 22	Pierre Gasly	Kept their order
Pierre Gasly · Kevin Magnussen	9 · 10	13 · 9	22 · 41	Pierre Gasly	Swapped places
Kevin Magnussen · Sergio Perez	10 · 12	9 · 10	41 · 39	Sergio Perez	Kept their order
Sergio Perez · Brendon Hartley	12 · 16	10 · 11	39 · 49	Sergio Perez	Kept their order
Carlos Sainz · Brendon Hartley	15 · 16	12 · 11	25 · 49	Carlos Sainz	Swapped places
Brendon Hartley · Fernando Alonso	16 · 17	11 · 17	49 · 15	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Pierre Gasly · Carlos Sainz	9 · 15	13 · 12	22 · 25	Pierre Gasly	Swapped places
Sergey Sirotkin · Carlos Sainz	14 · 15	16 · 12	16 · 25	Sergey Sirotkin	Swapped places
Pierre Gasly · Esteban Ocon	9 · 18	13 · 14	22 · 40	Pierre Gasly	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Esteban Ocon	17 · 18	17 · 14	15 · 40	Fernando Alonso	Swapped places
Esteban Ocon · Stoffel Vandoorne	18 · 20	14 · 15	40 · 28	Stoffel Vandoorne	Kept their order
Esteban Ocon · Lance Stroll	18 · 19	14 · 18	40 · 17	Lance Stroll	Kept their order
Sergey Sirotkin · Stoffel Vandoorne	14 · 20	16 · 15	16 · 28	Sergey Sirotkin	Swapped places
Lance Stroll · Stoffel Vandoorne	19 · 20	18 · 15	17 · 28	Lance Stroll	Swapped places
Sergey Sirotkin · Fernando Alonso	14 · 17	16 · 17	16 · 15	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Lance Stroll	17 · 19	17 · 18	15 · 17	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Practice 3

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:09.011	—	0 m	—	16
2	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:09.060	+0.049	3 m	+0.049	20
3	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:09.107	+0.096	6 m	+0.047	28
4	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	3	1:09.395	+0.384	24 m	+0.288	23
5	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	7	1:09.573	+0.562	35 m	+0.178	28
6	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:09.679	+0.668	42 m	+0.106	23
7	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:09.922	+0.911	57 m	+0.243	28
8	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:10.236	+1.225	76 m	+0.314	15
9	Charles Leclerc	Sauber	16	1:10.346	+1.335	83 m	+0.110	28
10	Esteban Ocon	Force India	31	1:10.361	+1.350	84 m	+0.015	34
11	Carlos Sainz	Renault	55	1:10.662	+1.651	103 m	+0.301	34
12	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	27	1:10.679	+1.668	104 m	+0.017	34
13	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	36	1:10.685	+1.674	105 m	+0.006	29
14	Lance Stroll	Williams	18	1:10.799	+1.788	112 m	+0.114	30
15	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso	10	1:10.934	+1.923	120 m	+0.135	30
16	Lando Norris	McLaren	47	1:11.013	+2.002	125 m	+0.079	28
17	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	35	1:11.037	+2.026	127 m	+0.024	30
18	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso	28	1:11.176	+2.165	135 m	+0.139	32
19	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	2	1:11.452	+2.441	152 m	+0.276	23
20	Nicholas Latifi	Force India	34	1:11.493	+2.482	155 m	+0.041	34

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:08.846	—	0 m	—	48
2	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:08.849	+0.003	0 m	+0.003	43
3	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:08.919	+0.073	5 m	+0.070	42
4	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	3	1:09.164	+0.318	20 m	+0.245	44
5	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:09.339	+0.493	31 m	+0.175	28
6	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	7	1:09.412	+0.566	35 m	+0.073	42
7	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:09.769	+0.923	58 m	+0.357	44
8	Charles Leclerc	Sauber	16	1:09.943	+1.097	69 m	+0.174	44
9	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:10.007	+1.161	73 m	+0.064	39
10	Esteban Ocon	Force India	31	1:10.159	+1.313	82 m	+0.152	45
11	Sergio Perez	Force India	11	1:10.320	+1.474	92 m	+0.161	23
12	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso	10	1:10.330	+1.484	93 m	+0.010	44
13	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	14	1:10.332	+1.486	93 m	+0.002	36
14	Carlos Sainz	Renault	55	1:10.458	+1.612	101 m	+0.126	48
15	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	9	1:10.532	+1.686	106 m	+0.074	44
16	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	35	1:10.569	+1.723	108 m	+0.037	46
17	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	2	1:10.596	+1.750	110 m	+0.027	26
18	Lance Stroll	Williams	18	1:10.662	+1.816	114 m	+0.066	44
19	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso	28	1:10.734	+1.888	118 m	+0.072	46
20	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	27	1:11.674	+2.828	177 m	+0.940	6

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:07.948	—	0 m	—	17
2	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:08.165	+0.217	14 m	+0.217	15
3	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:08.465	+0.517	33 m	+0.300	23
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	7	1:08.490	+0.542	34 m	+0.025	17
5	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:08.733	+0.785	50 m	+0.243	12
6	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	3	1:08.788	+0.840	53 m	+0.055	12
7	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:09.146	+1.198	76 m	+0.358	14
8	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:09.257	+1.309	83 m	+0.111	16
9	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso	10	1:09.402	+1.454	92 m	+0.145	22
10	Charles Leclerc	Sauber	16	1:09.448	+1.500	95 m	+0.046	21
11	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	27	1:09.461	+1.513	96 m	+0.013	19
12	Esteban Ocon	Force India	31	1:09.588	+1.640	104 m	+0.127	18
13	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	9	1:09.808	+1.860	118 m	+0.220	23
14	Carlos Sainz	Renault	55	1:09.864	+1.916	122 m	+0.056	17
15	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	35	1:09.885	+1.937	123 m	+0.021	14
16	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso	28	1:09.985	+2.037	129 m	+0.100	18
17	Lance Stroll	Williams	18	1:10.001	+2.053	130 m	+0.016	17
18	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	14	1:10.020	+2.072	131 m	+0.019	15
19	Sergio Perez	Force India	11	1:10.116	+2.168	137 m	+0.096	18
20	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	2	1:10.289	+2.341	148 m	+0.173	16

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

3 more photographs

Where this comes from

Round: 20 of 2018
Grand Prix: Brazilian Grand Prix
Dates: 11 Nov 2018
Layout raced: Current layout · 4.309 km · 15 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Mercedes
Entrant: Mercedes
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.