Brazil GP race start analysis: Carlos Sainz slowest up to 200km/h due to clutch issue. Carlos Sainz was the slowest up to 200km/h at Interlagos due to clutch issue.

Let’s take a look at the reaction times and the time to each 200km/h in the start of the 2023 Formula 1 Brazilian Grand Prix, which was held last weekend at the 4.309-kilometre Autódromo José Carlos Pace, better known as Autódromo de Interlagos:

Source: FDataAnalysis

This data is relative to the very first start of the Brazilian Grand Prix (not the post-red flag restart)

Scuderia Ferrari Spanish driver Carlos Sainz was the slowest driver up to 200km/h: he needed 0.7s more than the quickest ones! (Esteban Ocon and Zhou Guanyu). After the start he said over the team radio: “I just hope we bin this clutch, as soon as we’re back in Maranello”

Alfa Romeo was the best (5.55s average), while Aston Martin the worst (6.05s average)