2015 Brazilian Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 18 of 19 in the 2015 Formula One season | |||
Layout of the Autódromo José Carlos Pace
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| Date | 15 November 2015 | ||
| Official name | Formula 1 Grande Prêmio Petrobras do Brasil 2015 |
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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 | Dry 22–28 °C (72–82 °F) air temperature 38–48 °C (100–118 °F) track temperature 2.5 m/s (8.2 ft/s) wind from the north |
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| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:11.282 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Lewis Hamilton
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Mercedes | |
| Time | 1:14.832 on lap 51 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Mercedes | ||
| Second | Mercedes | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
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The 2015 Brazilian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Grande Prêmio Petrobras do Brasil 2015) was a Formula One motor race held at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace, in São Paulo, Brazil on 15 November 2015. The race was the eighteenth round of the 2015 season, and marked the forty-fourth running of the Brazilian Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship since its inception in 1950.
Nico Rosberg, driving for Mercedes, was the defending race winner. His teammate Lewis Hamilton entered the race as World Drivers' Champion, having secured the title two races earlier in the United States. Mercedes had also already clinched the Constructors' Title, having done so at the 2015 Russian Grand Prix.
Rosberg took pole position in Saturday's qualifying session, the twenty-first of his career. He would go on to win the race from his teammate, in what many commentators perceived as a "boring" race. Sebastian Vettel completed the podium for Scuderia Ferrari.
After the 2014 race had been held at a resurfaced circuit, causing the teams to fight with the soft tyre choice by Pirelli, speculations arose if drivers would be able to challenge the eleven-year old track record set by Rubens Barrichello in 2004. However, practice showed that lap times actually slowed due to changes to the kerbs, forcing the drivers to stay away from the insides of the corners.Pirelli chose the soft and medium compounds for the event.
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