What venue first staged the Brazilian Grand Prix?
Interlagos, São Paulo
Formula One started racing at Interlagos in 1972, when the event was run as a non-championship race (won by Argentinean Carlos Reutemann). The first World Championship Brazilian Grand Prix was held there in 1973, and it was won by defending Formula One World Champion and São Paulo local Emerson Fittipaldi.
The first Brazilian Grand Prix was held in 1972 at Interlagos, but that was a non-championship event. The next year, the Brazilian GP became the new championship round. The first winner of Brazilian GP was São Paulo native, Emerson Fittipaldi. The following year, Fittipaldi won again at Interlagos.
The first World Championship race was held on 13 May 1950 at Silverstone in the United Kingdom. The Italians once again did well in these early World Championship races, both manufacturers and drivers. The first World Champion was Giuseppe Farina, driving an Alfa Romeo.
The seven-time World Champion made a great start to the Brazilian Grand Prix, at the original start immediately prior to the red flag stoppage, as he climbed into third place by vaulting past the Aston Martins ahead of him on the grid.
| 1972 Brazilian Grand Prix | ||
|---|---|---|
| Podium | ||
| First | Carlos Reutemann | Brabham-Ford |
| Second | Ronnie Peterson | March-Ford |
| Third | Wilson Fittipaldi | Brabham-Ford |
There is some debate as to what can be considered to be the first Formula 1 race. The first race under the new regulations was the 1946 Turin Grand Prix held on 1 September, the race being won by Achille Varzi in an Alfa Romeo 158 Alfetta - but this was before the Formula was officially in place.
British driver needed fifth place if his only rival Felipe Massa wins his home Grand Prix. Brazilian won convincingly from pole, but Hamilton overtook Timo Glock in Toyota in the last lap who stayed on dry weather tyres in wet conditions and won his first driver's championship.
The race was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, before returning under the Sao Paulo Grand Prix moniker in 2021. The change in name is due to the new contract promoters agreed with F1 to keep the race at Interlagos until the end of 2025, staving off a threat from Rio de Janeiro.
Who is the youngest F1 race winner?
Verstappen is also the youngest winner of a Grand Prix; he was 18 years and 228 days old when he won the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix.
In 1899 Gordon Bennett offered the Automobile Club de France (ACF) a trophy to be raced for annually by the automobile clubs of the various countries. The trophy was awarded annually until 1905, after which the ACF held the first Grand Prix motor racing event at a road course near Le Mans.
It might have only returned to the schedule in 2018 after a decade-long break, but the French Grand Prix is in fact the oldest race on the Formula 1 calendar. First run in 1906, it was the first race to carry the 'grand prix' name in its title. Since then, the race has been staged at no fewer than 16 different venues.
From being a vocal fan of Brazil's finest ever driver to winning his first title on Brazilian soil; Hamilton's authentic links to the country made him the perfect person for Itaú Personnalité to centre their marketing around.
Ayrton Senna has won the most races with 41 victories, while Nelson Piquet won 23 out of 204 race starts. Fittipaldi, Rubens Barrichello, and Felipe Massa have each claimed more than ten wins. Carlos Pace scored his only victory at the 1975 Brazilian Grand Prix.
Interlagos, and Brazil, hold a special place in Hamilton's heart as home to boyhood idol Ayrton Senna and a country that has welcomed him with honorary citizenship and brought him plenty of local fans.
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The 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix was the 18th and final round of the 2008 Formula One World Championship and was held on 2 November 2008, at the 4.309 km (2.677 mi) Autódromo José Carlos Pace, in São Paulo, Brazil.
And why isn't it called the Brazilian GP? F1 heads to Brazil for the final Sprint weekend of the season. Can Lewis or Lando bag a win before 2023 is out?
What is the name of the Brazilian Grand Prix?
Autódromo José Carlos Pace has been the correct moniker since 1985, honouring the late Brazilian racing driver José Carlos Pace, who lost his life in 1977. A more recent change came in 2021 when the Brazilian GP name left in favour of the São Paulo GP after a change in its promoter.
Typically, a Formula 1 race will last between 80 and 100 minutes from start to finish. This can be longer if there are many Safety Car periods, where the cars slow down, or red flags, which pauses the race. In the case of a red flag, the race is likely to last over 2 hours.
No one is absolutely sure who first had the idea of an official Formula One World Championship, but the credit is generally given to the Marquis Antonio Brivio-Sforza, who had been elected to represent Italy at the FIA in 1946.
The modern era of Formula One began in 1950, but the roots of Grand Prix racing are far earlier, tracing to the pioneering road races in France in the 1890s, through the Edwardian years, the bleak twenties, the German domination of the 1930s and the early post-war years of Italian supremacy.
