Mercedes finally ended their long race win drought in style as George Russell won the Brazilian Grand Prix from pole while Lewis Hamilton came home second.
The two Brits made no mistake in an exciting race which saw plenty of crashes in the opening stages. Hamilton was involved in one of them, as he and Max Verstappen made contact – causing damage to the Red Bull driver's front wing, while the seven-time world champion came out of that incident unscathed.
That left Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez as the only people who had a real chance of stopping the Silver Arrows. But they were unable to do so, despite a late safety car allowing them to bunch up right behind the two Mercedes cars with 15 laps to go. Perez disappeared fast, being overtaken by both Ferraris as well as Fernando Alonso and his team-mate Verstappen, who had made his way back up the order.
