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The Brazilian Grand Prix |
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Visit the official web site of the 2002
Brazilian Grand Prix: http://www.gpbrazil.com/
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The Brazilian Grand Prix Course Map |  |
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Statistics | |
| 2002 result - top six | 2002 Pole Position & Top Four | |||
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1. M Schumacher 2. R Schumacher 3. D Coulthard 4. J Button 5. J P Montoya 6. M Salo |
Ferrari Williams McLaren Renault Williams Toyota |
1. J P Montoya (Pole Position) 2. M Schumacher 3. R Schumacher 4. D Coulthard |
Williams Ferrari Williams McLaren |
1:13.114 |
| Pit stops schedule | Previous pole positions | |||
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1 Stop 2 Stops 3 Stops |
39-43 24-28, 44-47 14-19, 35-39, 52-58 |
2001 - M Schumacher 2000 - M Hakkinen 1999 - M Hakkinen |
Ferrari McLaren McLaren |
1:13.780 1:14.111 1:16.568 |
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Fastest Lap | |||
| J P Montoya | Williams | 1:16.079 | ||
| Lap Record | ||||
| M Schumacher | Ferrari | 1:14.755 | ||
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History of The Brazilian Grand Prix | |
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The first races in Sao Paulo took place in 1936 when Carlo Pintacuda and Attilio Marinoni came out from Europe with Alfa Romeos but faced little opposition from the local drivers. In 1938 two property developers bought a huge tract of land to the so
It was not until the international success of Emerson Fittipaldi that Brazilians began to clamor for a Grand Prix. The first races were non-championship events in 1971 and 1972. The race became a World Championship event in 1973. Emerson Fittipaldi
Fittipaldi did the same thing in 1974, setting himself for a second World title by the end of the year, but when he returned to Interlagos in 1975 he had to make way for another local, Carlos Pace, who wrote his name indelibly into the Brazilian his
Sadly, Pace would never win another Grand Prix for he would die in a plane crash in March 1977. By then Carlos Reutemann had won another Brazilian victory, repeating the Ferrari triumph of the previous year when Lauda had been at the wheel. For the 1978 GP Formula 1 moved off to the more glamorous Rio de Janeiro circuit of Jacarepagua but returned to Interlagos in 1979. Times had changed: ground-effect aerodynamics had arrived in F1 and the bumps of the Sao Paulo track were magnified b There would be another French success in 1980 as the Renault team tweaked the turbos and outblasted everybody, Jean-Pierre Jabouille taking pole and Rene Arnoux winning the race -- his first Grand Prix victory. By then, however, the slums of Sao Paulo were becoming too much for the beautiful people and in 1981 F1 took itself off to Nelson Piquet's adopted home town of Rio. It was only when Piquet's star was waning and Ayrton Senna - a Paulista - was dominant in F1 that a new attempt was made to take the Brazilian GP back to Sao Paulo. A new mayor, Luiza Erundina, began talking to F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone and the city The old pits were demolished and in their place rose a completely new garage complex. The work began late in 1989 and continued night and day through the winter in order for everything to be finished in time for the race. It looked like an impossibl |
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2002 Brazilian Grand Prix Qualifying Places | |
