Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra

What a move by Max Verstappen. Vettel had no answer. Verstappen has gone past both Ferraris: one on the outside, one on the inside. This is much more like it from Red Bull. And now Raikkonen has gone past Vettel too. It's all gone wrong for Sebastian Vettel.

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Ricciardo has made up four places up to seventh, while his Red Bull counterpart is now in third. He fought with Vettel for some space which wasn't there, but Max made it work to stay on the track.

Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra

That was always going to be the problem for Ferrari starting on different tyres. They just didn't have the grip, and Vettel locked up at the first corner. Raikkonen did a nice move on Max Verstappen to regain position after a similar problem. The different strategy, and it's hurt them at the start.

1. Hamilton
2. Bottas
3. Vettel
4. Raikkonen
5. Verstappen

Well then... Hamilton leads from pole, Vettel loses his second place to Bottas.

Ericsson loses out to quite a few - he's down in tenth now, but his Sauber teammate is in sixth.

Off we go.

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Ok just one more before we start...

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BBC Weather's Ian Fergusson has been on again...

It's almost time.

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Emmerson Fittipaldi, the 1972 and 1974 F1 champion, has just given a few words of advice to the young Lando Norris on the dedication required to be a success in the sport: "Breakfast, lunch, dinner, nightmares and good dreams about motor racing."

And cake too. Always leave space for cake.

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This was spectacular. But we were also glad to see he walked away unscathed.

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Don't forget Daniel Ricciardo has a five-place grid penalty, so he starts in eleventh.

Andrew Benson
BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer at Interlagos

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This race is expected to be a tight fight between Mercedes and Ferrari, but could Red Bull have a say in it, too? Max Verstappen, who starts fifth, believes it’s possible.

He says the decision between soft and super-soft is “not a big issue - they both feel OK in the long run. They are similar on pace”.

But then Red Bull have consistently had very good tyre wear this year - and that could be an important benefit.

Verstappen said that, for Red Bull, the super-soft is the optimum starting tyre and that’s what they’re on.

“In the race we are always a bit better than in qualifying. We are half a second behind so I think we can be quite close.”

But he said that with a power deficit, overtaking on track will not be possible, even if they are quicker.

He added: “Following is quite hard on this track and if you don’t have the top speed then I don’t think you can get by. So it will have to happen through strategy.”

Max Verstappen, who starts in fifth for Red Bull, is asked if he's set up to win today.

"Not to win because we have to go past four cars with an undercut, so I don’t think it’s going to happen," he tells Sky Sports. "We had a good long run on Friday, but passing here is going to be difficult."

Andrew Benson
BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer at Interlagos

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Strategy. Would you fall off your chairs if I told you it was expected to be a one-stop? No, didn’t think so.

Pirelli predict that the quickest strategy is to start on the soft, do 32-36 laps, and then switch to the medium. That’s the Ferrari strategy.

“Very close” is starting on the super-soft, doing 25-30 laps, and then switching to the medium. That’s the Mercedes and Red Bull strategy.

As ever, track position is key, so running longer on a slower tyre, as per the soft-start strategy, is not necessarily a good thing. It’s wide open, in other words.

Lando Norris, who will be driving for McLaren next season, is on the grid speaking to Sky Sports: "It's exciting. It's the second time I've been on the grid, and the fourth time will be in the grid in Australia.

"It's nerve-wracking. So much goes through the drivers' minds at this moment. There's the expectation of what's going to happen in turn one. Thinking it will be me on the grid next year, I'm looking forward to it.

"It's a pretty different grid to most tracks, it's a pretty uphill start. Not too negative to have an uphill start, but it is a challenge."

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Since it's his penultimate race of his Formula 1 career (he is still a reserve driver for Sauber in 2019). He nailed it yesterday, he starts P6 today - which is his best ever qualifying position in his five year Formula 1 career.

Eighth is his best ever finishing position, so let's hope he puts his foot down today.

Andrew Benson
BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer at Interlagos

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Temperatures are up today and that means an afternoon of tyre management for the drivers.

Mercedes F1 team boss Toto Wolff admitted on Saturday that F1 shouldn’t be like this, but for now that’s what we’ve got. Mercedes are generally concerned about the way the starting-tyre situation has evolved.

Ferrari took what Wolff called “a big gamble” in delaying their first runs in second qualifying to ensure they got on to the soft tyre - this is what led to Sebastian Vettel’s little strop at the weigh bridge as he was delayed coming in - but, as Wolff said, “it paid off”. The soft is a much robust tyre for the race.

Wolff said: “They have a disadvantage at the start but a big advantage over the first 10 or 15 laps, which in our models show them as the favourite.”

Lewis Hamilton said: “We wanted to be on the soft and things kind of swung us the wrong way. Right or wrong we will see but hopefully still, with the choice we have, I’ll make the best of it.”

One of the Sauber engineers says: "We lost part of the extractor in the out-lap but I hope we will fix it for the start of the race. It could be better but I hope we will be able to fix it."

Let's all hope for Marcus' sake it can be fixed.