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Hawking, reviewing today the Brazilian Grand Prix sprint. Of course, we had the sprint

shootout this morning. Spring race happens just about 15 minutes ago as I've

started recording this. Max Verstappen taking victory despite the pole position of Lando Norris. Norris himself

holding on to second place, Sergio Perez rounding out the sprint podium in third place. And he

had to do a bit of work to get that third place back from George Russell. It feels a bit

scary to be left to my own devices reviewing a sprint Grand Prix. This could go off the rails

very, very quickly. It almost certainly will. And now I'm thinking about it, that shouldn't matter

at all because every episode we do, no matter how many of us are here,

goes off the rails. So I'll crack on. Plenty to discuss. I'm actually going to talk about the

Ocon Alonzo incident a little bit later on, even though they didn't happen in the sprint race

as it's just happened a few minutes ago. Aston Martin, their performance after a tough qualifying,

but again, one of them couldn't make it into SQ2 as a result of the crash.

A little bit on Alpha Tauri, Ferrari, Mercedes.

Going to cover most of the top teams.

I would like to start, though, by talking about the race out front or I guess the lack of race out front because it was settled very, very quickly.

I think there were a lot of questions as to where the Lando Norris could hold off

Max Verstappen. We've seen him have considerable pace throughout the weekend so far.

And the answer was no. And very quickly no. Max Verstappen managed to get the lead into the first corner which i don't

know if anyone's noticed but this red bull that seemed to have a little bit of a problem starting

gromprey earlier in the season has really turned that around because hey they were full of weaknesses

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