Nico Rosberg achieved this Sunday to his second consecutive victory after beating his team mate and double world champion, Lewis Hamilton, at the Brzilian Grand Prix, held at Interlagos. After holding the lead at the start, the German was able to manage the race setting the pace and managing his advantage.

 

Despite being behind his teammate, Lewis Hamilton called for a change of strategy to try to overtake Rosberg. However, the British would eventually finish the race with a 7.7 seconds gap. The two MercedesMercedes-BenzGermany, 1924 > present197 models
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driver came very close at some point, but the second set of tires turned out to penalize the Hamilton's pace.

 

With the victory at Interlagos, the fifth of the season, Nico Rosberg secured second place in the Drivers' Championship Standings, as Vettel just managed to take his FerrariFerrariItaly, 1947 > present233 models
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to third place. Despite trying a different strategy, Ferrari couldn't challenge the Mercedes. Kimi Raikkonen finished fourth ahead of Valtteri Boots and Nico Hulkenberg.

 

Daniil Kvyat took to sixth place, ahead of Felipe Massa. Romain Grosjean of secured eighth place ahead of Max Verstappen, who with six consecutive races in the points hit a record of Team .

 

Pastor Maldonado completed the scoring places in his Lotus.

 

 

 

Pos	Driver	Team	Time
1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1h31m09.090s
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	7.756s
3	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	14.244s
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	47.543s
5	Valtteri Bottas	Williams/Mercedes	1 Lap
6	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes	1 Lap
7	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull/Renault	1 Lap
8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus/Mercedes	1 Lap
9	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault	1 Lap
10	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes	1 Lap
11	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1 Lap
12	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	1 Lap
13	Felipe Nasr	Sauber/Ferrari	1 Lap
14	Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda	1 Lap
15	Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda	1 Lap
16	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari	2 Laps
17	Will Stevens	Marussia/Ferrari	4 Laps
18	Alexander Rossi	Marussia/Ferrari	4 Laps
-	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	DNF
-	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso/Renault	DNF