It was a cracking Sao Paulo Grand Prix all round, with a frenzy of action, overtaking and controversy, and it didn't even need rain to spice things up.

Other than a better and wider track surface, improved kerbs and general drainage, that circuit layout hasn't changed, thankfully, since I first raced an F1 car there in 1991, and the old school nature of this anticlockwise short track has always worked well even if we've seen some serious incidents there over the decades.

It's still a misery to get in and out of the place, but the natural bowl of the venue along with the contour changes, and a layout which demands high top speeds in sectors one and three, but lots of downforce and grip for the technical and highly-cambered middle sector, provide plenty of challenges in its 2.7 miles conta

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