2014 Brazilian Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 18 of 19 in the 2014 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | 9 November 2014 | ||
| Official name | Formula 1 Grande Prêmio Petrobras do Brasil |
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| Location |
Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo, Brazil |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.309 km (2.677 mi) | ||
| Distance | 71 laps, 305.909 km (190.067 mi) | ||
| Weather | Mostly cloudy with maximum temperatures reaching 25 degrees during the day. | ||
| Attendance | 70,681 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:10.023 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Lewis Hamilton
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Mercedes | |
| Time | 1:13.555 on lap 62 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Mercedes | ||
| Second | Mercedes | ||
| Third | Williams-Mercedes | ||
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The 2014 Brazilian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Grande Prêmio Petrobras do Brasil 2014) was a Formula One motor race held at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace, in São Paulo, Brazil on 9 November 2014. The race was the eighteenth round of the 2014 season, and marked the forty-third running of the Brazilian Grand Prix.
As in the previous race, Marussia and Caterham missed the Grand Prix, leaving the field at eighteen cars.
Mercedes's Nico Rosberg won the race from pole position. Rosberg's tenth pole of the season secured him the inaugural FIA Pole Trophy.
Before the event, the circuit was completely resurfaced, with a much smoother surface. Following a series of heavy accidents in national races, the pit lane was reprofiled with the entry brought forward from the Arquibancadas corner to move it off the racing line and a chicane added to the pit lane to further slow cars entering the pits. The pit exit was moved further away from the circuit to allow for a run-off area on the outside of turn 2. In addition, in response to the incident suffered by Jules Bianchi during the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix, procedures relating to the location of a tractor crane serving the Senna "S" chicane were also altered.
Pirelli originally nominated the orange-banded Hard and white-banded Medium tyres, as it has for the event since 2012. However, following the Russian Grand Prix one month prior, many drivers criticized the low level of grip and wear shown on the new tarmac of the Sochi Autodrom. Since Autódromo José Carlos Pace was completely repaved following the 2013 race, there was concern that the hard compound would be "very dangerous". Along with unanimous agreement from all eleven teams, Pirelli ultimately decided to bring the Medium and yellow-banded Soft tyres to the event.
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