Overview
- Isack Hadjar and Liam Lawson made wheel-to-wheel contact at Turn 1 on the final lap at Interlagos, yet both cars stayed intact as Lawson finished seventh and Hadjar eighth.
- Diverging strategies set up the showdown, with Lawson executing a one-stop that included a 52-lap medium stint while Hadjar’s two-stop charge on fresher tyres closed the gap late.
- Hadjar admitted he "pushed it a little too much" with the outside move into Turn 1, and Lawson called it a misjudgement he respected given the last-lap context.
- Racing Bulls acknowledged a strategy error earlier in the race after Hadjar was undercut by Haas’s Oliver Bearman, with his race engineer apologising for a mistake in the team’s strategy tools.
- Team principal Alan Permane said the drivers were trusted to race each other, and the double score moved the team to 82 points, 10 ahead of Aston Martin and 12 clear of Haas in the fight for sixth.