The sevenfold world champion will fight to, in the best of cases, obtain the sixth position in Sunday’s race although he will be able to argue with the Dutchman Max Verstappen, Red Bull driver and championship leader, first place in tomorrow’s sprint that distributes points.
The decision of the Mercedes team occurs when Hamilton (293.5) is second to 19 units behind Verstappen (312.5) with four dates remaining for the end of the tournament. Last October, the English pilot received a penalty of ten places for another change in the internal combustion engine.
In the first free practice of the day, Hamilton finished first with a time of 1: 09.050 and edged Verstappen (+0.367). The Mexican Sergio “Checo” Pérez finished third (+0.442), the Finn Valteri Bottas (Mercedes) in the fourth position (+0.517) and the French Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri), in the fifth place (+0.830).
The Brazilian Grand Prix will take place at the Interlagos racetrack with a new format: Friday qualifying, sprint qualifying race for Saturday and traditional race for Sunday.
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