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Formula 1’s Managing Director of Motorsport Ross Brawn discusses the decision to cancel the 2020 Australian Grand Prix, after a member of the McLaren team tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus. —video—

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Max Verstappen that started on Pole won the FORMULA 1 BRAZILIAN GRAND PRIX 2019 with Pierre Gasly of Toro Rosso Honda coming in 2nd for his first Formula 1 Podium.  Lewis Hamilton for Mercedes-AMG took the Podium at the end of the race for 3rd place.  Hamilton later got hit with a 5 second penalty that knocked him down to 7th place with Carlos Sainz Jr. for McLaren then moving up to 3rd.  The two Ferraris kissed each other late in the race that knocked both cars out.

Late in the race as Hamilton was coming up on Red Bulls Alexander Albon and darted forward behind Albon benefit fitting from an open DRS as the were headed to a turn Hamilton took the inside position and the Mercedes and the Red Bull touched with Albon getting the worse of the incident.  On reply some people thought it was just a racing incident (no penalty), some thought Hamilton should have backed off and some thought that Hamilton was far enough along that Albon should have been able to see that Hamilton had inside position for the turn and that Albon should have taking a different line for the turn.  After review by the racing officials they determined that Hamilton was at fault and hitting him with a 5 second penalty.  That incident was strange but not as strange as the 2 Ferraris touching each other late in the race causing enough damage to both cars that neither could continue the race.  They replay of the incident clearly shows that Charles Leclerc had given Sebastian Vettel enough room and as Vettel was overtaking Leclerc that Vettel angled his car into Leclerc.  Of course all teams want their drivers to drive aggressively but not so aggressively that when they are taking the fight to their teammate that either driver creates and incident that can knock both cars out of the race.  Obviously, this incident has created more drama in the Ferrari camp.

The Brazilian Grand Prix 2019 was a very exciting race.

Valtteri Bottas for Mercedes-AMG wins the FORMULA 1 UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX 2019 by overtaking his teammate Lewis Hamilton late in the race.  Hamilton was on the Pirelli Hard Compound tires and Bottas was on the Medium Compounds.  As what’s become a Hamilton norm, he was able, for a long time, to nurse his tires and stay out in front of the pack, but even so he experienced enough degradation in the tires allowing Bottas on fresher Medium tires to overtake him.  Even though Bottas won, and going into the race Bottas was the only driver left that could challenge Hamilton for the 2019 drivers Championship, by coming in second Hamilton was able to win his 6th Drivers Championship coming in second after starting the race in P5 (Position 5).  Red Bull’s Max Verstappen also ran an excellent race and finished 3rd.  The Ferrari’s were really not a factor in the race.  Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc finished 4th and also earned the Fastest Lap point and his teammate Sebastian Vettel left the race after his right-rear suspension broke.  It was an excellent very exciting race with all of the end of the race Mercedes-AMG pit stop, tires drama we’ve become accustom to seeing this season.