next sprint on a very traditional track in Sao Paulo Brazil we start from position 1 Sprint qualifying worked very, very well even though it rained there too, which by the way we will have in the next qualifying before we start the real race here, so rain in qualifying But in the race we have the best conditions and I'm excited. I want to get as many points as possible. We can no longer become world champions. That's Verstappen mathematically we can, but in the driver's constructive ranking I mean we can still do that I would like to achieve second place and we can also become vice world champions in the drivers' standings, so we still have a few goals that I would like to achieve, but we still have a few tricky races, for example in Qatar, we still have Las Vegas as a circuit the United Arab Emirates and have I forgotten one more, I think that's it, we still have three more races after that and then this season is already over, I slipped around on the grass once and was over, what do I do now? here right now F I'm not very good at the moment, a big mistake and you can see that the nice first position is gone, but we're now going to get ourselves back with driven past, start to sap, let's see if we can do it, it closes the door for me a little bit Or does he have problems ? No, we can use that if you are no more than a second behind the car in front of you and in the dzone . My tires have seen how fast it goes on the grass the other drivers then pass you, but I still think it's a nice route. I really enjoy driving here. There aren't that many opportunities to overtake. Actually, only if you make a mistake here in the curves or stop at the start the long straight and after the sen s yes, I always wrongly claimed senen is W in Silverstone for whatever reason until I did some research myself and found out about it. Now I know that the sen is curves 1 and 2 here Brazil is logically like that here I have to be careful now, of course I've already used a lot of e. Now of course verappen will get past me unless I defend myself here with EAS but even then I think it will be very, very difficult. Alonso comes with a 19 with the rear open and we can't make it past the outside but well now we have the chance to pass here with D. Of course I have to save even though we don't have many laps left now and off we go, how far ahead can we get? Yes, that looks good The door on the left closes and the front wing flies there, a V flies onward, what time but the race is almost over, there are only three laps left but the front wing part has flown away nicely now that will of course affect us here with the steering too the speed if we have a bit of a disadvantage but oh again the grass here is appealing. I don't know why the left-hand bend works well, the problem will now be more in the right-hand bends but thank God we don't have that many right-hand bends like this and now Verstappen and Alonso are still the same, I think Alonso could also be in one or two seasons if he continues to drive like this here for the world champion. I don't know, but he will definitely be at the top now, oh Verstappen Alonso Norris is coming now They all now they all want my behind oh no and then I'll do shit like that here h that wasn't ideal it could be that you 're understeering a bit since you're in the moving car it could be that I just drove onto the grass again and that I lost a few places again as a result, so now pay attention here Norris Alonso on the 2nd, that must also be a mistake in the matrix, so at least now here with Esten Martin, right-hand bend, right-hand bend, we particularly [music], it's a shame it could have been so nice This sprint race started so well in pole position, maybe we can somehow manage it a little better in the race Yes, the fact that I let the grass heal the way it is [music] is of course also important, as I said, for the constructors' championship Russel is now behind me, everything is pretty good, but I could have been first, apart from that, I don't think I'll get DS, no But now Russell, of course, I now have disadvantages because of this damage to the front, what are you going to do about that? I have very big disadvantages, but I could possibly start another overtaking maneuver and then I just have to somehow make up for it in the race. First of all, I have to do well in qualifying Well, I actually like the rain compared to the others or the AI, but then in the race why do so many parts fly away? [Music] I don't think we can do anything great on the last lap. It's a shame too many mistakes too much too leaving the track then the collision with Verstappen where I then lost an important part of my wing on the front right you can see that there is of course firstly speed that's very clear and now comes beeps there was the hand gesture le comes past on the right that's one last one On the last lap of the race there was also another pS. But that's going to happen here on the last lap. Now I have to be careful that I don't get passed to the back from 1st place to 6th place. That's shit to say in German anyway, but it's just hinted at or or said too many mistakes then unfortunately you will be punished and that mercilessly here in the game anyway the AI is lying in wait for mistakes like that, they are already sitting with foam from and in their cars and are basically waiting for me to make mistakes like that, but that's okay the most normal thing in the [music] world, let's see if I can somehow manage the long section without an accident or if I can get to 6th place undamaged. That's a lot of damage, but I feel like leccire can't get past me, but I think leccire and maybe Gas will do it Now I'll get past me, but I'll try to defend myself until the end to the finish line. Leccire won't be able to get there anymore or oh he'll come again, I'll turn the door to the left and I'll lose 6th place and end up on the last pass on your car, well, as the saying goes, a sentence with an I said in the rain, yes, I don't want to say that there is a risk of a richer driver than the AI, but the feeling is that I like the rain a little more because I drive there as if it weren't raining and that perhaps restricts the AI a little bit Maybe be extra careful in the rain, as you should probably do, but I honestly don't give a damn, I'm squealing again now, but it doesn't matter here, it's just for qualifying, the sun is coming out again, so we're about to have the most beautiful Brazilian weather and we're here again in the pole position so the pole position actually doesn't mean anything good here for a long time, that's what we had in the sprint qualifying, I was also on the one now I'm here again on the one I hope that I'll do that a little bit this time Better solve it like this and come to the last few meters 58 seconds here we are moving relatively fast, we also have a bigger lead over Lando Norris who is obviously second but now the last few meters count Norris comes up again, I don't know, let's keep the pole or not no Norris is just overtaking us. It's a shame here again in the last few meters but 2nd place is also okay from the front row. Hopefully we'll do better than in the race Noris let's see if we can do it better somehow better start in sprinting I did n't like it that much either, it works better now, it worked really well, it does n't come off well at all and who's behind again Alonso, it's crazy, he's at the front everywhere, it's like a burr that's always hanging on your backside somewhere is now second third again with a little bit from Verstappen well, he will be on his way again But now it's important to drive the first few laps with real concentration, not to carelessly lose first place again because that would have been a real shame in the sprint race, what I did there in seventh place, so losing six places is bitter except for that It would have been another mistake in the pit lane like in Mexico, which really annoyed me afterwards, but well, what are you going to do, that's the great thing, a lot of unforeseen things happen and now I would like to maybe get a podium place here So it's definitely in there, but you know what I mean, Alonso, always watch Norris Leclire piest the first five then behind it everything still looks very close together, nice pearl necklace now that's lined up in a row, nice and colorful and I'll leave it out again now if I don't really need it, then I wouldn't want to use it either, I would save it, oh there was just a bit of a bump, it just felt like that. Someone drove in, but no, it was kind of like a [music] bump in the road, yes, we can still get a head start 0.6 but Alonso will of course also use his chance with that means I have to defend myself right now, well charged, we should use the overtaking button more often on the long yard, so here in the curves I don't need it anyway because that's what matters for me personally There's no point at all unless I have to get out of a curve better, but I can actually do that quite well, so the start and finish after the senener are the two areas where I think the lawn could be used quite well Also in good health, very nice, the greenkeeper was allowed to go again without my tires and now I would say from here on from the sign you can switch it on to defend me, but of course Alonso comes now with the wind-shaded DS, which of course has greater advantages But first stay with me here and have a good exit and then Bisang will look brilliant. 1st place Alonso as I said, he will be pretty close to me now, I'm assuming but we'll be going well for a long time, very very stable, better than in the sprint race, I would have that now I've lost two or three places again because I would have taken a lot of grass with me [music] with curves like that I always think to myself why don't you drive from the outside, then you have more speed early on so you can get into the curve, I think So I guess sometimes when I see it in videos like they take the curves, they don't always drive the ideal line, they drive their own ideal line, so that's crazy, they then drive the curves from very far outside and then after Inside Distance to teammate is 4.4 Attention Alonso tries inside Now I'll get another warning Where is the message I don't think we have to let Alonso pass now Yes I don't like to say it but I'll open the door again here I have to close the door Leave the gap open just enough so that it doesn't go over to the left and even better that it doesn't pull through because if I leave too much space then of course it pulls through the AI, which doesn't pull back because it's stupid. I have to manage it somehow in a healthy way Mixture of opening the door a little bit but then not too far, so if you understand what I mean [music] and of course the others come closer and closer, look here I mean from the outside then you can accelerate in time, maybe that's how you win a few seconds but that's the kind of ideas and thoughts that just pop into my head spontaneously at some point and now I just have to parry a little earlier, so I'll probably let Alonso pass me by so that I can enjoy it too Come on, he 'll probably be the next one or when I check the brakes later, I'll have a look at Alonso's brakes. He had to really hit the iron now and I'm not sure if we can keep up with pure engine power with DRS. I'll leave it alone Now that I can save money, but we actually have to be faster than Martin again slight braking, there's smoke on the left at [music] Alonso now have to wait for the right time otherwise we'll be driving in the slipstream, watch out for the understeer in the slipstream of the car in front try to get past as quickly as possible go go try my best h just don't always brake too late before the corners otherwise I'm out then that's it again a very very narrow line between several placements so now I'll see how strong the engine power is I won't turn it on now I'd like to save a little more I'd like to put it over here now We actually have to get there with engine power and DS and we also try to slipstream this small gap. That's what I meant if we always leave it open a little bit then they'll pull through, but if I do that like I did two laps ago and I only do one Leave the gap open like Alonso is doing here right now, the AI won't pull through the gap here just like Alonso does, that's what I did too and then he couldn't find a way past [music] to the first pit stop that will be in Until then I would like to stay in the top three, but the others will of course also try to get past. Norris le P, I don't know what Fürppen does, but the important thing is to stay ahead of Norris and for Russell to somehow get a high ranking manages to get us second in the constructors' championship, I've lost a bit towards the front again, it doesn't matter, the H with everything back up, so here's what I mean: get out of the course quickly, get up to speed and then give it together with that windschaten DS oh here come yes yes yes here we come there we come we come we come flying in for God's sake now I have to be careful that was just a bit risky from Alonso but of course also from me maybe I should have stayed out but he did Done exactly right, it moves over to the left, so there was no space at all on the right. I wouldn't have been able to do that, okay, listen, we can, so we should charge it now and that's true to the motto at the wrong time in the wrong place have to do when I'm second when I was second but that could also be charged in the pit lane, I think that's exactly on the lap where we're coming in [music] so attention so good [music] taken so 0.37 here you could do a little bit But you don't win that much, Alonso will now pass again and Lando Norris behind him, it'll be a nice change back and forth like this here W the gap now I'll close it in the same way so that ano has to go over to the left and there now here the corner comes and hopefully he pulls back, yes, do it like that Hal, I'll still be in first place if that works for another nine laps or ten laps, so now I'm opening up the gap here again, he has to move over to the left, NIS then comes from the right, Alonso can do that but also not oh it's going to be very close now he stays on and is in the lead again he switches it on again here exactly two cars fit next to each other in the curve and that's enough there are nice duels here with Alonso a bit of tension a bit of action even though the World Cup is already here But as I said, it's decided it's about place z here in the drivers' and in the constructors' championship and I would like to be there with my team, my team and I from one and a Mercedes so now we have 0.7 now we have a bit of a lead won for whatever reason and now we can accelerate a bit now Alonso has to get out of that window that would be very very advantageous we are now starting the pit stop lap and now Machu our distance to his teammate is 3.8 seconds and Alonso they are arguing now 2nd place let's see which of the two goes in someone will do we have a second lead Alonso now has more problems with Norris that means we have the necessary distance that we need the [music] and that too until we get into the boxass that what I w we race [music] so we look at the tires very quickly and solidly 37 34% front the front is particularly strong Wears out especially on the front left because I think we have a lot of left-hand bends, yes, that's clear to me, even if I'm saying this wrong, but I think through the four left-hand bends, don't forget to go to and F, don't rush like that and now we'll save our e until we go out of the pit lane and D we also have the 43% again so now drive in here quickly, nowhere against any gang, that's how it works and it's going Alonso down now we have to be quick now we have to hopefully have few drivers behind us K pleaseand the UN come come come [music] very happy Alonso right behind us so everything went well everything according to plan now I hope for the other drivers Alonso is on hard tires okay there is definitely a reason for that but I think we are now back on the faster tires and I hope so Alonso is just disturbed by the cars behind or by some cars that might help me but at the front, for example at S, if I get overtaken then he will stop and clear, but that's more wishful thinking so we now have eight laps left in the second one [Music] Part of this race that will hopefully be just as stable and action-packed and if I'm first on the W then I'll forget about the bad sprint race, but now Hal is going in for the other half, which means unfortunately I won't have the luxury that I just wanted but who knows maybe at the pit exit it will also be very very exciting very very tight Alonso still comes far or close with the hard tires is now at the pit exit PI drives out again he could possibly stop Alonso that would be a candidate like that who would help me but that won't happen no, so the old places have been taken back Alonso is close behind me 0.3 0.2 too bad too bad n good now it's really about driving skills who drives the most consistently well and safely [Music ] [Music] Here I might have a chance to make up a little time but only a little bit h 0.7 that or take the curve a little differently here and drive a little over the KB you can already see 0.20.3 seconds more very important out of the that window out of the DS window then Alonso unfortunately still gets to it but he doesn't have a slipstream that's good, hopefully he has more problems than we did so again the body was a bit worn out somehow the steering behavior as I said after the update that there was a time ago, I think it has somehow changed a bit in some curves it just seems a bit more stable, it 's a bit heavier, but it's also just my personal impression, my personal [music] opinion, the same here again and again Use CBS to shorten a bit so much that it's not enough for a penalty 1.2 seconds research 1.6 that's good the lead grows so the car stays stable [music] so here again be careful about curbing 1.6 yes that It's good, we've now got a really good lead in the last two laps but we've been blowing well, of course, as I said, we've also driven a bit over KB with the shortcut, but that's just another topic that sometimes I take a different line or drive differently As the AI, it strictly sticks to this ideal line here, it doesn't take this shortcut or it doesn't drive over hill and dale or you haven't seen it and that's the advantage you have no matter what ski level you are at A good lead has now been cleared, past Alonso as I said, the change to hard was perhaps not the best thing and F is already five okay, listen, we have a clear path in front of us so let's make the best of it and do a fast lap, you can do it yes 11 why not 19 we always have so far that was the one with the best lap time we should be able to do that or the fastest lap time of course I would like that too but just a bonus that would be the icing on the cake [music] now my primary concern is the race to win [music] so Alonso is already 2 seconds behind so the lead grows so I then have to defend it and our conditions can come 11 we have yeah [music] 1408 is going well, so as I said, Brazil will probably be the same for many people, with one of the easiest routes to drive on, I mean, it's not demanding, oh yellow sector, that's of course what I can't use, now it's broken Alonso drops out after rinten no Alonso drops out that is Fernando Alonso yes probably with engine damage or did he just brake yes is out of the race no he is withdrawing from the race he is withdrawing from the race Fernando Alonso fought so hard for second place 1st place and now four laps ahead, he gives up the ghost or what, yes please, but good, that's just random, just probably no engine damage again, no one knows why, well, but now to think about the team, one less competitor for Russell but me I don't see Russell at all in the first five 6 S, I think he's eighth or something like that, the tide has turned within a season we've been promoted to first driver or we'll then be promoted to first driver and we'll be where in this ranking too we still have 45% and Russel 55, as I said, I still don't know what that is, it's probably that we're simply preferred for certain upgrades, so we'll be driver number 1 and if we keep the lead then that was exactly the idea for the race which I would also have liked to have had in the sprint race, confidently driving away from the front a few overtaking maneuvers, now the competition is saying goodbye, even shooting itself out with Fernando Alonso, what do you want to do [music] it's exciting and interesting on the last laps, yes if we're like that In lap 17 the AI sometimes picks up again so they get a few percent out of their goids but at the moment the 1.5 second lead is actually quite good if I keep driving like that, it really looks well from veren is now third so he also wants to attack [music] at the front even though as I said he's no longer interested in that because of his sporting ambition and his contract probably where there are some clauses in it, the SP has to do it again [music] so now There are already 1.7 here, so here in sector 2 I'm doing better than I would have thought, especially here at the curve. I'm worried because I 've hit the grass here a few too many times in the sprint race I shot twice for no reason but I mastered it really well. Here I also look at the K. 1.7 the lead is growing 1.8 1.9 for God's sake how much time you can gain if you just drive over the basket I just noticed now and the victory it looks like the next victory the distance to the teammate is 7.9 seconds yes my teammate should see that he can be behind Williams or behind alpine I think it is alpine so that is definitely the one Case I think in eighth place is of course not so good for the team but good you can't change it, the main thing is that we are at the front in the end then confidently and we just made our way through the sections that we took the way we took them The lead here [music] Fernando Alonso was eliminated and of course that helped us again. Who knows, maybe he could have done a little bit more, but I was of the opinion that with these hard tires he had basically given up on himself that he raised the white flag there so last lap here in Interlagos Sao Paulo very very nice race the weather is changing now last lap the sun is gone but now we don't have to do another good and fast lap over here turn it on now anyway because I think now the AI is picking up again leclre fen stays third Norris sence what about Russell, he's coming along again but he's just not going to make it [music] wherever they are If we can get the last few percentage points, I think that would at least get us back to second place in the drivers' standings because the distance between me and Norris in terms of points or we are the same, I don't know, we really have to look at it because I don't have the calculation memorized in my head so 1.8 leclire comes up a bit but thank God not decisive last left turn and then there's the long straight again here at the start and finish the next victory for us here in Brazil after the sprint race went completely wrong the real race is so much more beautiful all the more successful very nice yes yes yes what do you hear people well done P1 for us keep it up [music] another great Brazilian Grand Prix is over and the victory today was clearly deserved now in the end everything turned out for the better but as we know it was n't an easy day but I think it shows great strength when you get through a day like this and still get a win [applause] After an excellent performance at this Grand Prix, there will certainly be plenty to celebrate at Mercedes this evening and they deserve it [music] Collected the rivalry against, well, the one I don't get anymore Lando Norris but there are n't that many points 10 20 are only 28 points That can look different in one race or two races, but I probably won't be able to do that anymore That's wishful thinking, the more important thing here is, look, we already have an overall rating of 77, so we've caught up really well. Here we're now still at 45 55. The ratio of this recognition as it stands there would be in the next one, too, I think Look a little different manufacturing experts we have rank 3 rank 1 but for the engine in terms of strategy and quality we haven't reached rank 2 yet for the others who probably weren't there at the weekend now we have a few weeks Break, we just have another aerodynamics part, we have to start processing it again because that failed and save a few parts for next year. Now we get weekly resources here on a weekly basis as front for end plates downforce. These are probably the last ones now Upgrades for this season where we can also put in a little bit more resource points and developments we expected but unfortunately some of them are not, we are putting them in here and that's it with resource points we had to save quite a bit because we have to budget quite a bit like that You can see the layout of the track doesn't look that complicated, it also has a really long straight, but there are also very tight corners, so I still don't like driving in Las Vegas, I'll tell you what it's like, I'm driving during the 121st race weekend km let's do it I don't know the exact number of each route so F1 Bridge I'm no better now since there was some talk of sprint qualifying again we also have a sprint here we'll find out right away it will be a later entry so it's completely normal Training Blitz Qualifying then 13 laps I'm excited I'm very very excited Developments have all worked out so far and then yes God I could definitely have set the goal a little higher, well, afterward is always smarter afterward you always know better we're second In terms of the overall rating here, so performance comparison, we are second Chaz, that of course sucks a bit, we didn't do so well, I'm thinking about changing the gearbox again for the last races, I'm just doing it, why not, we still have three races left We still have Vegas now, we have Qatar and the United Arab Emirates and I think our season performance can improve if we take Spain out. 19th place was a very, very dark place, from imula onwards we were always in the top six, definitely at the beginning of the three races That was just to get in. It took me a while because we had a Z place in Bachhein then Saudi Arabia 13 out of 93 but I was also eliminated, I think that's exactly where I had a crash with S or Leclair, I think Leclair was, well, definitely won a few races, it was a really nice season, I had a lot of fun as always, we still have three more races, let's see if we can manage to come second or if we stay in third place, that's good Until the next chr Prix here in Vegas I'm very excited and I hope it goes well ciao ciao [Music]