• Esteban Ocon took P2 for Alpine. It’s the primary time he is completed on the identical step of the rostrum greater than as soon as (he beforehand completed first, second and third as soon as every).
• Alpine had not accomplished a lap within the high 5 of a Grand Prix this season earlier than immediately.
• Ocon had solely scored 5 factors this season earlier than immediately, his lowest complete after 20 races in his F1 profession.
• Group mate Pierre Gasly took P3 on his one hundred and fiftieth Grand Prix begin.
• Gasly had by no means completed on the rostrum twice on the similar venue earlier than (he was p2 at Interlagos in 2019).
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• The final time two French drivers completed on the rostrum was Spain 1997, with Olivier Panis P2 and Jean Alesi P3.
• As we speak was the primary time that the Alpine marque has had two automobiles on the rostrum in Method 1.
• The final time the staff from Enstone put two drivers on the rostrum was Korea 2013, once they have been generally known as Lotus, with Kimi Raikkonen P2 and Romain Grosjean P3.
• Alpine jumped from ninth to sixth within the constructors’ championship immediately, having by no means been greater than seventh all through the 2024 season.
• George Russell took P4 for Mercedes, having led the race previous to the purple flag.
• Russell completed within the top-six in each the Dash and the Grand Prix this weekend.
• It was Russell’s 18th Grand Prix factors end of the yr, although solely his third podium.
• Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was P5 – he has by no means completed on the rostrum at Interlagos.
• Neither Ferrari made the rostrum right here after each of them have been on the rostrum on the earlier two rounds in the US and Mexico.
