Lewis Hamilton won his first Brazilian Grand Prix in spectacular fashion, totally outdriving (demolishing?) Mercedes teammate and title rival Nico Rosberg in a wet and treacherous, marathon of a race in which Red Bull’s Max Verstappen starred with one of the gutsiest drives in memory.
Hamilton won a race that was interrupted several times with yellow flag periods and red flag stoppages, but he was never challenged in conditions that separate the ‘men from the boys’ and the biggest of them was the reigning Formula 1 world champion.
Although Rosberg was no match for Hamilton, but to his credit he did what he had to do in the situation and heads to Abu Dhabi for the season finale needing to follow his teammate across the finish line to win his first F1 world title.
Third place went to Verstappen, who delivered one of the most stunning performances witnessed in Formula 1 in decades and will go down as one of those drives that we will always remember – as awe inspiring as that great Gilles Villeneuve vs Rene Arnoux tussle all those years ago at Dijon.
Third was his reward for his greatest drive (so far) but could have been so much more had Red Bull not erred in their strategy calculations.
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