2024 São Paulo Grand Prix
| 2024 São Paulo Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 21 of 24 in the 2024 Formula One World Championship
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Layout of the Autódromo José Carlos Pace | |||||
| Race details | |||||
| Date | 3 November 2024 | ||||
| Official name | Formula 1 Lenovo Grande Prêmio de São Paulo 2024 | ||||
| Location |
Autódromo José Carlos Pace São Paulo, Brazil | ||||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
| Course length | 4.309 km (2.677 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 69 laps, 297.261 km (184.709 miles) | ||||
| Scheduled distance | 71 laps, 305.879 km (190.064 miles) | ||||
| Weather | Rain | ||||
| Attendance | 291,717 | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | McLaren-Mercedes | ||||
| Time | 1:23.405 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT | |||
| Time | 1:20.472 on lap 67 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT | ||||
| Second | Alpine-Renault | ||||
| Third | Alpine-Renault | ||||
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Lap leaders | |||||
The 2024 São Paulo Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Lenovo Grande Prêmio de São Paulo 2024) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 3 November 2024 at the Interlagos Circuit in São Paulo, Brazil. It was the twenty-first round of the 2024 Formula One World Championship and the fifth Grand Prix weekend of the season to utilise the sprint format.
Oscar Piastri of McLaren took pole position for the sprint event, and then ceded position to his teammate Lando Norris in the closing laps of the sprint. Norris won his first sprint race ahead of Piastri and Charles Leclerc of Ferrari. Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing initially finished third, but was later penalised for a virtual safety car infringement, ending up fourth. Norris took pole position for the main race in a qualifying session disrupted by five red flags, ahead of George Russell of Mercedes and Yuki Tsunoda of RB, who qualified in a career-best third.
The wet-weather race was won by Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing, who qualified in 12th place but started 17th after being handed a five-place grid penalty for exceeding his allocation of power unit components, taking both his and Red Bull's first win since the Spanish Grand Prix. The podium was completed by Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly of Alpine with the two achieving Team Enstone's first double podium finish since the 2013 Korean Grand Prix with Kimi Räikkönen and Romain Grosjean. This also marked the first time since Räikkönen's win at the 2005 Japanese Grand Prix that a driver had won from 17th – or lower – on the grid.