2019 Brazilian Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 20 of 21 in the 2019 Formula One World Championship
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Race details[1] | |||||
Date | 17 November 2019 | ||||
Official name | Formula 1 Heineken Grande Prêmio do Brasil 2019 | ||||
Location | Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo, Brazil | ||||
Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
Course length | 4.309 km (2.677 miles) | ||||
Distance | 71 laps, 305.879 km (190.064 miles) | ||||
Weather | Sunny | ||||
Pole position | |||||
Driver | Red Bull Racing-Honda | ||||
Time | 1:07.508 | ||||
Fastest lap | |||||
Driver | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | |||
Time | 1:10.698 on lap 43 | ||||
Podium | |||||
First | Red Bull Racing-Honda | ||||
Second | Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda | ||||
Third | McLaren-Renault | ||||
Lap leaders |
The 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Heineken Grande Prêmio do Brasil 2019) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 17 November 2019 at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo, Brazil. The race was the twentieth and penultimate round of the 2019 FIA Formula One World Championship. The race marked the 47th time the race had been run as a World Championship event since the first championship event in 1973, and the 48th time the race had been run overall.
The race was won by Max Verstappen with Pierre Gasly and Carlos Sainz Jr. taking their first podiums in second and third respectively. Sainz also scored McLaren's first podium since 2014, while Gasly's podium turned out to be the last for Toro Rosso in Formula One.