Brazilian F1 Grand Prix 2014 Results: Winner, Standings, Highlights and Reaction

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Published: November 9, 2014

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Nico Rosberg won a thrilling Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos, cutting Lewis Hamilton’s lead in the Formula 1 Drivers’ World Championship standings to 17 points. Felipe Massa finished in third, delighting the Brazilian crowd with a fine display in his Williams.   


The result was confirmed by Sky Sports F1:



Victory for the German gives his world title tilt a timely boost, but a repeat of this result in the 2014 finale would be good enough for the Brit to take the title. There’s just one race to go in the campaign, the double-point showdown in Abu Dhabi.





With a healthy lead in the world championship standings, there were plenty who expected Hamilton to play things conservatively around the Interlagos circuit. But the Mercedes man insisted that despite starting in second place, he’d be doing his utmost to win the race, per Andrew Benson of BBC Sport:

It was great fun, Nico did a great lap. I lost bit of time in Turn 10 and perhaps a tiny bit in Turn One. But that's what qualifying should be about—just having to keep going out and finding more time.

It is a long race and it should be quite exciting. I'm here and I want to win. I hope we get to have a race.



Hamilton’s best hope of edging in front of Rosberg was at the start, but the German got away superbly off the line, with the Brit clinging on in second place.

With the sun beating down in Brazil, there were concerns about tyre degradation of the soft compound on what was a searing track. So it was no surprise to see the drivers come in for a round of pit stops just a few laps into the race. Sky Sports F1’s thermal imaging camera shows just how hot the tyres were on Rosberg’s car:



Hamilton pitted the lap after his team-mate, and after a big push on his in-lap, the undercut very nearly ...
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