The Formula One World Championship, which has already been settled with the second title of Dutch Max Verstappen (Red Bull), is coming to Brazil, the penultimate race of the year, in a race that will be unqualified for the third time this year. speed test.

Mexican at Brazilian Grand Prix Sergio PerezVerstappen’s teammate will defend second place in the World Cup against Monegasque Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) at this weekend’s São Paulo Grand Prix (Brazil) at the Interlagos circuit, the penultimate race of the qualifying year. For the third time in this course it will be solved with a sprint test.

‘Checo’, who won four first-class victories by winning in Monaco and Singapore this year, has 280 points, 136 points less than the two-time champion Verstappen, who won the Suzuka Grand Prix a month ago. Japan- and Five more than Leclerc; At a World Cup with English George Russell (Mercedes) fourth with 231 units, and still has a chance to be second in math; although they are far away.

It starts in Sao Paulo the last ‘double schedule’ of a World Cup at Yas Marina, the track that will host the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which will close after one weekend; And here, the most important thing left at stake is second place, with the builders title also decided in favor of the ‘Checo’ and ‘Mad Max’ team. In the case of team competition, it will be decided between Ferrari and Mercedes: currently with 40 points advantage for ‘Scuderia’.

The penultimate Grand Prix of the year, named after Brazil’s most populous city, will be held at the José Carlos Pace Autodrome, a 4,309-metre track with 15 bends, 10 of which are on the left, scheduled for Sunday. Making 71 counterclockwise laps to complete a 308.5 kilometer route.

The Brazilian test, in which mid-range compound tires will roll dry – C2 (hard, recognizable by the white stripe), C3 (medium, yellow stripe) and C4 (soft, red) – will be the third and final. After the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix in Imola (Italy) and the Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, the ranking will be determined by a sprint test (about a third of the way through the race on Sunday).

First free practice will be played this Friday and ‘preliminary’ as usual with three qualifying rounds that will determine the starting line-up of the sprint test on Saturday.The second and this time will take place hours after the last rehearsal.

The reduced test will not only define the grid for Sunday’s race, but will distribute the points to the top eight: the first adds 8, the second adds 7; and up to the eighth, which will add one to your personal account. In a Grand Prix where two Spaniards will try to pull off as much as possible: double world champion Fernando Alonso (Alpine), 32-time F1 winner, and Carlos Sainz (Ferrari), who won his first victory this year. First class by winning the British Grand Prix at the legendary Silverstone (England).

With eight podium finishes this year, 28-year-old Sainz finished fifth in Mexico, where Verstappen set a record 14 on the same course; and ‘Checo’ finished third and finished sixth in the World Cup. With 212 points, he is four points less than seven-time British world champion Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), who was named an Honorary Citizen of Brazil.

Sir Lewis came to the fore in an action that took place in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, after which “his honor, Ayrton senna To his family, friends and fans, who won three world titles for Brazil before he died in an accident at the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola in 1994.”

Sainz aims to finish World Cup ahead of Stevenage champion and he shouldn’t miss out on the other Mercedes, Russell, who was 19 points ahead in the final overall standings.

Celebrating two world titles (2005 and 2006, with Renault) precisely on this track, 41-year-old Alonso finished ninth with 71 points.and Alp left him ‘thrown’ him countless times (The Spaniard can easily get double the points he has accumulated) two Sundays ago in Mexico.

The Asturian grand driver will run for the nineteenth time on the track, where he has never won but has added eight of the 98 podiums he has held in the honors division of motorsports; and where he finished second three times.

Sainz secured the first of fourteen podiums in F1 in 2019 at Interlagos and with a McLaren.. Last year, the talented rider from Madrid finished sixth in a race where Fernando was ninth and ‘Checo’ fourth with 25 ‘drawers’ in first class.

No one in Brazil has won as much as four-time French world champion Alain Prost. It has performed the Marseillaise six times, but on five of them, the last time it did so at Jacarepagua, the Rio de Janeiro track where it was run in 1989.

Among the active ones, the most victorious were Hamilton, who celebrated his third victory at Interlagos last year after their 2016 and 2018 victories, and four-time German champion Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), who retired ten days later. He climbed to the top of the podium in Sao Paulo in 2010 and 2013 (with Red Bull) and 2017 (with Ferrari).

Had he not lost his close to 70 points due to Alpin’s insecurity, his teammate Alonso would have been well ahead of the French. Stephen Ocon Still hoping to beat him in the final part of the championship – who beat him by 11 points.

for him, Asturian genius hopes to take advantage of ‘variable’ weather according to him, it can be found both “in qualifying, in the sprint and in the race”. The spoils of points will be bigger in Sao Paulo, where Alpine will have to defend and even strengthen fourth place in the Constructors’ World Cup, where they lead McLaren by seven points (153-146).

While nothing is at stake, given his peak fighter status, there’s no doubt that Verstappen, the winner of the two sprint races this season, will contribute to his own record with his fifteenth victory of the season at Interlagos. .