Interlagos delivered one of the wildest qualifying sessions of the year. A storm red flagged Q1 after just 2 minutes and 23 seconds, with standing water, thunder and lightning over the circuit. The restart came after a wait of about 90 minutes.
As the track dried, Lando Norris took pole position with a lap of 1:27.470 as the rain closed back in. World champion Kimi Antonelli joins him on the front row, and Liam Lawson starts third, equalling the best grid slot of his career.
Then the penalties rewrote the grid. George Russell drops five places to seventh and Charles Leclerc drops ten places to fourteenth. Lewis Hamilton starts twentieth, Max Verstappen twenty first and Sergio Perez twenty second, so the back of the grid is pure royalty.
The championship fight for second place now runs through all of that traffic. Norris starts at the front, but the biggest names in the sport are charging from the back. Lights out is at 17:00 UTC, over 71 laps.
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