Nico Rosberg beat Lewis Hamilton
for the second race in succession to win the Brazilian Grand Prix. The German
converted pole position into a lead at the first corner and controlled the race
from there, despite Hamilton pushed hard throughout. Hamilton looked faster but
in the turbulent air behind Rosberg car he was unable to get close enough to
try to pass his team-mate. Ferrari Sebastian Vettel was third ahead of
team-mate Kimi Raikkonen.
Rosberg took the initiative at the
start, narrowly avoided contact with Hamilton, and held on to it throughout.
Hamilton got very close at one stage before his tyres cried enough. They eventually
finished 7.7s apart after a nip and tuck battle, as the champion struggled and was
being caught gently by hard charging Vettel. Kimi Raikkonen, on a two stop strategy
to Ferrari teammate Vettel three, had an undramatic run to fourth place ahead
of William’s Valtteri Bottas.
Nico Hulkenberg and Daniil Kvyat
battled throughout, the Force India driver taking sixth ahead of the Red Bull.
Felipe Massa was eighth in the second Williams, but is being investigated by
the stewards after the pressures and temperatures of his right rear tyre were
found to contravene FIA regulations before the start. A fine drive by Grosjean
netted Lotus two points.
Red Bull stablemate Daniel
Ricciardo did the same to Maldonado but still finished behind the Venezuelan,
who received a five second time penalty for tipping Sauber Marcus Ericsson into
a spin in the Senna S. They finished 11th and 12th with
Perez 13th from Nasr as the Brazilian attempt to make two pit stops
work failed to pay off. Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso had a race long intra
McLaren battle, which the Englishmen won comfortably by 9.3s.
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