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Last season info Sao Paolo Brazil
Renault and McLaren dominated the race.
Alonso put one hand on the championship
trophy by stealing first position from Montoya,
as Raikkonen slipped up, running wide at
the very start of his lap in the Senna S,
pushing him down to fifth on the grid, with
the Renault of Fisichella and Button’s
BAR ahead of him on row two. It was not
a good start for Raikkonen, who knew he
must win to retain any realistic hope of
the title, while all Alonso needed was a
third place to wrap things up - regardless
of Raikkonen’s result.
Winner + pole + fastest lap Sao Paolo Brazil
Montoya won the GP
Brazil 2005 race followed by Raikkonen
and Alonso in second and third place. Alonso
had started from pole position. The fastest
lap was run by Raikkonen with a 1:12.268.
Historic info Sao Paolo Brazil
Sao
Paulo hosts the Formula 1 Grand Prix,
the only circuit venue in the whole Latin
America. In 1938 a huge plot of land was
bought in Sao Paulo by two local property
developers who intended to build a large
housing development. It soon became clear,
however, that one part of the land was not
suitable for housing and so they decided
to build a racing circuit instead. Sao Paulo
grew at an incredible speed though and soon
the circuit was surrounded by houses. When,
in the 1970s, Emerson Fittipaldi began to
have international success, the Brazilians
started to want a Grand Prix. In 1973 the
track hosted its first championship Grand
Prix. The track became a lucky charm for
local racers, Fittipaldi, Carlos Pace and
Carlos Reutemann all taking the spoils of
victory in the 1970s. Interlagos was the
scene of Pace's first and only Formula One
victory, and following his death in a plane
crash the circuit was renamed in his honour.
In 1978 the grand prix moved to Rio, but
in 1979 Interlagos got its race back. By
1981 however Rio had retaken the Grand Prix,
Sao Paulo's slums being at odds with the
glamorous image Formula One wanted to portray.
When a $15m redevelopment programme was
agreed in the heyday of Ayrton Senna, a
Sao Paulo local, the race finally moved
back to Interlagos.
Listings of past winners / teams
(last 10 years)
"2005 Juan Pablo Montoya (McLaren-Mercedes)
2004 Juan Pablo Montoya (Williams-BMW)
2003 Giancarlo Fisichella (Jordan-Ford)
2002 Michael Schumacher (Ferrari)
2001 David Coulthard (McLaren-Mercedes)
2000 Michael Schumacher (Ferrari)
1999 Mika Hakkinen (McLaren-Mercedes)
1998 Mika Hakkinen (McLaren-Mercedes)
1997 Jacques Villeneuve (Williams-Renault)
1996 Damon Hill (Williams-Renault)"
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