In Pictures: Brazil 2019
What an eventful race we’ve had at Interlagos. Max Verstappen won from pole, a very, very happy Pierre Gasly finished second. Lewis Hamilton crossed the finish line in third place and took that position on the podium, but a five-second time penalty saw him demoted to P7. McLaren’s Carlos Sainz was promoted to third place.
QUOTES FROM THE PODIUM
“This is just incredible! My first podium in Formula 1 and with Toro Rosso. I kept working every race on myself, I always thought that if I could be in the right place at the right time something will come, and today it happened, it’s just amazing - I have so many emotions! I’ve always said the team is my Italian family, I love their spirit and passion, they always push like hell and today was the best present I could give back to thank them for their massive constant effort. You dream a lot about being in F1, you dream about your first podium, but then when it happens all of the emotions coming through me are just unpredictable, it’s just the best day of my life right now. I want to send a huge thank you to everyone who has supported me since the start of my career and have gotten me to where I am today.”
“It’s an incredible feeling right now and to win today was a huge Team effort. It was a crazy race with a lot of action and fighting but luckily we always had the pace to counter back and overtake Mercedes in every scenario. It wasn’t easy out there but the Team made all the right calls, especially at the end to pit for the soft tires during the Safety Car which gave us the win today. It’s a great victory, after last year of course, but more for the way the race unfolded and how we all had to work together. It is of course a massive shame that Alex could not be on the podium with me as it would have been an even better result for the Team but it’s great for Pierre to be up here and for Toro Rosso and Honda.”
JOMA