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• Esteban Ocon took P2 for Alpine. It’s the first time he’s finished on the same step of the podium more than once (he previously finished first, second and third once each).
• Alpine had not completed a lap in the top five of a Grand Prix this season before today.
• Ocon had only scored five points this season before today, his lowest total after 20 races in his F1 career.
• Team mate Pierre Gasly took P3 on his 150th Grand Prix start.
• Gasly had never finished on the podium twice at the same venue before (he was p2 at Interlagos in 2019).
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• The last time two French drivers finished on the podium was Spain 1997, with Olivier Panis P2 and Jean Alesi P3.
• Today was the first time that the Alpine marque has had two cars on the podium in Formula 1.
• The last time the team from Enstone put two drivers on the podium was Korea 2013, when they were known as Lotus, with Kimi Raikkonen P2 and Romain Grosjean P3.
• Alpine jumped from ninth to sixth in the constructors’ championship today, having never been higher than seventh throughout the 2024 season.
• George Russell took P4 for Mercedes, having led the race prior to the red flag.
• Russell finished in the top-six in both the Sprint and the Grand Prix this weekend.
• It was Russell’s 18th Grand Prix points finish of the year, though only his third podium.
• Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was P5 – he has never finished on the podium at Interlagos.
• Neither Ferrari made the podium here after both of them were on the podium at the previous two rounds in the United States and Mexico.
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