F1 Live: 2024 Brazilian Grand Prix

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The lap times are very slow now, the conditions are streaming wet. Norris passes Russell. Safety Car then deployed.

Piastri has been given a 10 second time penalty for his incident with Lawson.

The VSC ends as Russell and Norris pit. Ocon and Verstappen stay out so the Alpine driver now leads.

Russell: “I think this is almost red flag conditions now. We can’t keep it on the road.”

L28 Hulkenberg has spun. Virtual Safety Car deployed. The top five had passed the pit lane entrance. Piastri and Alonso pit.

L27 The rain is noticeably heavier now. The leaders’ lap times are rising.

L26 Lawson goes off at the Senna S but gets going again. Piastri: “Definitely getting a bit wetter out here now.”

Russell and Hamilton have been referred to the stewards for having their tyre pressures adjusted on the grid. Leclerc pits.

L22 Leclerc slips up at Juncao and Verstappen gets a huge run at him, but the Ferrari driver keeps him wide at the Senna S and holds onto the place. Vertappen complains: “He was squeezing me onto the white line, not leaving a car’s width.”

L21 Norris drops back from Russell again. The gaps are opening out in the train of cars behind them as well. Drivers appear to be nursing their tyres to keep them alive. Big snap of oversteer for Verstappen.

Both Mercedes drivers complaining about their brakes. Russell is told he has a split in braking performance across the front axle.

L19 Russell has Norris breathing down his neck again. They’re hardly pulling away from Tsunoda now.

Norris: “I’m struggling to overtake. So slow on the straight.”

L15 Tsunoda is now 8.5s off Russell and Norris, and has Ocon, Leclerc and Verstappen queued up behind him.

The starting infringements involving Norris and other drivers will be investigated after the race.

Lawson pulls over to let Verstappen through at Laranjinha. Hamilton has a brief off and Colapinto pounces, passing him for 12th.

L10 Verstappen passes Piastri as if he’s lapping a backmarker. He came from a huge distance back at turn one and easily takes the McLaren.

L9 Bearman has been given a 10-second penalty for colliding with Colapinto. Verstappen now getting stuck into Piastri for seventh place. After that it’s Lawson who will surely offer no resistance.

Russell, Tsunoda and Lawson are now also under investigation for starting infringements along with Norris.

Bearman and Colapinto have been noted over a collision. Verstappen has taken Alonso for eighth.

L5 Norris does the fastest lap and is within a second of Russell – no DRS of course. Verstappen takes Gasly for ninth.

L4 Norris does the fastest lap and is now 1.4s off Russell. Verstappen is told the heavier rain will only last two or three minutes.

L3 Norris is almost two seconds behind Russell. Verstappen’s next target is Gasly. Sainz is told heavy rain at the end of the lap.

L2 Verstappen picks Hamilton off for 10th place.

Perez spins! He gets going again. Russell leads at the end of lap one followed by Norris, Tsunoda, Ocon and Leclerc.

The Brazilian Grand Prix is go! Russell takes the lead from Norris.

Rain falling as the grid forms up again.

Russell: “These brakes are 200 degrees too cold and no matter what I do, I can’t get them working.”

The drivers head off for another formation lap. The race distance has been reduced to 70 laps.

Penalties for formation lap breaches tend to be quite severe. Norris could get a stiff penalty here.

Norris did not appear to receive an instruction from McLaren to do a second formation lap.

The start has been aborted. Norris is under investigation for a starting procedure infringement. He appears to have led the field away on an extra formation lap before he was supposed to.

Stroll has now driven into the gravel and stopped at Subida do Lago. Disaster for Aston Martin after all the work they did to repair his car.

The drivers pull away from the grid, steadily. Stroll has gone off.

All drivers are starting on intermediate tyres. The top four are on used rubber. Significantly, Verstappen further back has three new sets, as he did not take part in Q3.

Race control says the risk of rain during the race is 100%. Norris is told rain will begin 15 minutes in.

Here’s the grid for today’s race – though we’re still waiting to see if all the cars appear on it.

Carlos Sainz Jnr will start the race from the pit lane following the repair work to his car.

Williams have got Franco Colapinto’s car fixed and he is due to start the race from the grid.

The crashes which occured in qualifying just a few hours ago have compromised several drivers’ races. None more so than Alexander Albon, who will not start.

The 2024 Brazilian Grand Prix is coming up next.