2010 F1 Brazilian Grand Prix Review

Sebastian Vettel celebrates win at 2010 Brazilian GP.
Photo Copyright © Paulo Whitaker / Reuters.

On November 7, 2010, the 2010 Brazilian Grand Prix was held at Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo, Brazil. It was round 18 of the 2010 Formula One Season. Sebastian Vettel won the race and Mark Webber came in second. Their one-two finish gave Red Bull Renault the Constructors' Championship for the first time. Still hanging on to a narrow margin of eight points with only one more race to go, the Drivers' Championship leader, Spanish Scuderia Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso followed with a third place finish.

Links to the most important Formula1.com posts on this race, from final practice to qualifying and on through to post race reactions, are in this review list. I've also included a highlights video.

Preview links for this race can be found within the last couple regular 'Reading And Viewing List' blog entries here at Junior's Eyes. For more articles, visit the Formula1.com archives.


Final practice - Kubica surprises at wet Interlagos
Posted at Formula1.com on November 6, 2010

As the forecast rain came to Sao Paulo on Saturday morning, Robert Kubica threw a spanner into the works for title contenders Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari by scooping the fastest time in the final practice session for Renault...

Qualifying analysis - Hulkenberg ahead, but for how long?
Posted at Formula1.com on November 6, 2010

Everyone expected the fight for pole position at Interlagos to be dominated by this season's five title contenders. Instead it was the strategic nous of Williams and the cool head of the team's rookie driver Nico Hulkenberg that eventually triumphed, with the young German taking his maiden pole position. However, with a championship at stake and a dry race expected, Hulkenberg will have his work cut out to stay in front on Sunday. We take a team-by-team look at qualifying...

Button unharmed in armed mugging attempt
Posted at Formula1.com on November 7, 2010

World champion Jenson Button escaped an attempted armed mugging as he and a party of friends left the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo on Saturday night. Button, his father John, manager Richard Goddard and physio Mile Collier were approached while travelling by car from the track, where Button had earlier qualified 11th for the Brazilian Grand Prix. None of the party was hurt...

Red Bull crowned 2010 constructors' champions
Posted at Formula1.com on November 7, 2010

We will have to keep guessing until next weekend about who will emerge as the 2010 drivers' champion, but in Brazil on Sunday Red Bull answered one of this season's burning questions, clinching their maiden constructors' crown in brilliant style - and with one race in hand - with a dominant one-two result...

Brazilian Grand Prix - selected team & driver quotes
Posted at Formula1.com on November 7, 2010

Mercedes GP's Nico Rosberg on the mix up during his second pit stop; Force India's Vitantonio Liuzzi on his dramatic exit from the race; McLaren's Lewis Hamilton on just managing to keep his title hopes alive with fourth place; and Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber on clinching Red Bull's maiden constructors' crown with their dominant one-two. All 24 drivers, and senior team personnel, report back on Sunday's race...

Race - Vettel win sets up four-way title showdown
Posted at Formula1.com on November 7, 2010

Four men will fight it out for the drivers' championship in Abu Dhabi next weekend after Sebastian Vettel led Mark Webber in a Red Bull one-two in Brazil on Sunday to secure the team their first constructors' title. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was third, McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fourth, and team mate Jenson Button - now out of the title hunt - fifth...

FIA post-race press conference - Brazil
Posted at Formula1.com on November 7, 2010

1st Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull), 1h33m11.803s; 2nd Mark Webber (Red Bull), 1h33m16.046s; 3rd Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), 1h33m18.610s.

Q: Sebastian, you have won the constructors' championship and now you have a chance in the drivers' in Abu Dhabi as well.
Sebastian Vettel: Yeah, I think incredible day. Not an easy race to start with. We knew we were on the dirty side but I think we had a good start...

Brazil analysis - Vettel in control of title destiny?
Posted at Formula1.com on November 8, 2010

The Brazilian Grand Prix set up the first four-way championship fight climax in the sport's history, as the Formula One paddock heads to Abu Dhabi this week. Sebastian Vettel took the Interlagos win he needed, but an equally dominant performance from the German at Yas Marina could in theory prevent Red Bull adding the drivers' championship to their 2010 constructors' crown...

2010 F1 Brazilian Grand Prix Highlights (São Paulo)
Posted at YouTube by bhask008 on November 14, 2010