Norris brilliant in wet & Verstappen recovery extraordinary – driver ratings

BBC Radio 5 Live F1 commentator Harry Benjamin rates how the drivers performed during the Sao Paulo Grand Prix. Lando Norris is sixth in the drivers' championship while Max Verstappen is second McLaren's Lando Norris secured his third win of the season on Sunday by beating Max Verstappen to victory at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix. Norris started on pole position but lost the lead of the wet-dry-wet race to new world champion Kimi Antonelli on the opening lap. But after an early pit stop for dry tyres, he regained control when Mercedes' Antonelli spun at the first corner. Verstappen, meanwhile, claimed his eighth consecutive podium with another eye-catching drive in tricky conditions at Interlagos, while his Red Bull team-mate Isack Hadjar finished third.

Here are my ratings for how the drivers performed across the whole weekend in Brazil. Pretty difficult to ask for much more for the McLaren driver. Fastest in first practice on Friday, brilliant in the wet to take pole and then kept his head through constantly changing conditions to win comfortably. Losing the lead at the start was only a minor blemish. Another extraordinary recovery drive in the Red Bull. Fastest in final practice and then charged from 21st to second, making up 10 places almost immediately, and once again looking completely at home in difficult