The 11th Win From P10 And More Stats From The Brazil GP

After a tense weekend both on and off track, Lewis Hamilton secured victory in Sao Paulo from tenth on the grid. It’s the furthest when that a race has overly been won from at the Interlagos circxpuit ?

Here are some of the top statistics from the 2021 Brazilian Grand Prix!

HOW MANY RACES HAVE BEEN WON FROM P10?

What a rollercoaster weekend for Lewis Hamilton. He qualified fastest on Friday surpassing stuff ruled for a DRS infringement. Starting last in Sprint Qualifying, he made up 15 places to finish fifth. With flipside five-place penalty, he sooner started the Grand Prix from tenth – and went on to win. 

– Ruled from qualifying
– Starts #F1Sprint last
– P20 > P5
– 5 place grid waif for the race
– P10 > P1

What a momentum from Lewis Hamilton ?

— WTF1 (@wtf1official) November 14, 2021

This was the eleventh time that a Grand Prix has been won from tenth on the grid. The last suburbanite to win from that grid slot was Pierre Gasly at last year’s Italian Grand Prix. 

Hamilton’s victory is the third from tenth on the grid in the past five seasons. It’s moreover the position from which Daniel Ricciardo won the 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. 

Other memorable wins from this grid slot include Kimi Raikkonen’s victory at the 2004 Belgian Grand Prix and Niki Lauda’s final career victory at the 1985 Dutch Grand Prix.

The full list of wins from 10th on the grid is as follows:

• Bruce McLaren, 1959 United States Grand Prix
• Denny Hulme, 1974 Argentine Grand Prix
• Carlos Reutemann, 1975 German Grand Prix
• Jacques Laffite, 1981 Canadian Grand Prix
• John Watson, 1982 Belgian Grand Prix
• Rene Arnoux, 1983 Dutch Grand Prix
• Niki Lauda, 1985 Dutch Grand Prix
• Kimi Raikkonen, 2004 Belgian Grand Prix
• Daniel Ricciardo, 2017 Belgian Grand Prix
• Pierre Gasly, 2020 Italian Grand Prix
• Lewis Hamilton, 2021 Brazilian Grand Prix

THE FURTHEST BACK GRID SLOT TO WIN AT INTERLAGOS

Hamilton’s win is the first time a suburbanite has won at Interlagos having started outside the top eight on the grid. The previous furthest when win here was for Giancarlo Fisichella in the 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix. The Jordan suburbanite took his maiden victory, having started eighth on that day. 

Furthermore, this is the first time that the Brazilian Grand Prix was not won from the front row of the grid since 2007. In fact, since Fisichella’s 2003 win, this is only the second time that victory was not recorded from one of the top two grid slots. 

From the past eight races at Interlagos, the polesitter has failed to win only twice. Both times, the polesitter has been Valtteri Bottas. Bottas finished as runner-up to Sebastian Vettel having started from pole in 2017, and finished fourth today. 

A NEW RECORD FOR MERCEDES POWER 

Lewis Hamilton secured the tenth victory for a Mercedes-powered car at Interlagos. It’s a new outright record of most wins for an engine manufacturer at the circuit. Prior to this year, Mercedes were tied with Ferrari and Renault engines on nine wins each at the track. Mercedes power has won six of the last nine races in Sao Paulo.

All the feels this morning! ? pic.twitter.com/ohjZclC0kd

— Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) November 15, 2021

Mercedes engines don’t quite have the record for most wins overall in Brazil, though. Ferrari power has secured eleven victories in the country. In wing to their nine wins at Interlagos, Ferrari took an spare two wins at Jacarepaguá when the Rio de Janeiro track was the host of the Brazilian Grand Prix between 1978 and 1989.

GOOD DAY BAD DAY FOR DANNY RIC

Daniel Ricciardo failed to finish the Brazilian Grand Prix without suffering a loss of power and was Ricciardo’s first retirement since the first race of the 2020 season. 

The Australian finished all 34 races from the 2020 Styrian Grand Prix to the 2021 Mexico City Grand Prix. It’s the second-longest streak of subsequent finishes in F1 history. His tally of 34 finishes in a row is bettered only by Lewis Hamilton, who finished all 48 races between the 2018 British Grand Prix and the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix.

Carlos Sainz now has the longest zippy finishing streak, having reached the chequered flag at all of the last 26 races.  

In largest news for Ricciardo, the McLaren suburbanite surpassed Nico Rosberg as the suburbanite to have started the second-most subsequent F1 races. The Honey Badger has not missed a race since his debut at the 2011 British Grand Prix. The 2021 Brazilian Grand Prix was his 207th subsequent appearance. Again, it’s only Hamilton who sits superiority of Ricciardo on this list. Ricciardo needs to start flipside 58 races to equal Hamilton’s record of 265 subsequent starts, between the 2007 Australian Grand Prix and the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix!

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