The FIA has shared details of F1 Brazil GP with regards to track limits, DRS zones, circuit changes & more, as Esteban Ocon talks about ill health.
The track limits remain as white lines for this weekend’s F1 Brazil GP at Interlagos with no additional information from FIA Race Director. However, there are host of changes from last year, which includes resurfacing after complaints from drivers, they are:
- It was removed the hatched zone between pit exit road (RHS) and track edge.
- Resurface from Turn 12 to Turn 1.
- Resurface from Turn 3 to Turn 4.
- Realign the white line at the exit of Turn 4.
- Grooving at Turn 2.
- Grooving from pit exit road until Turn 4.
- Grooving between in the straight after Turn 5.
- Grooving in the straight between Turn 11 and Turn 12.
- Grooving from the Start Line until Grid Position 21.
In terms of the DRS zones, the detection of first is at apex of Turn 2, with activation is 30m after Turn 3. At the same time, the second detection is 30m after Turn 13, with activation is 160m before Turn 15. The FIA stewards panel for Brazil GP will be led by Dr. Gerd Ennser.
He will have the support of Mathieu Remmerie, Pedro Lamy and Luciano Burti. Also, ahead of the media day, Williams noted that Carlos Sainz would skip Thursday session due to illness, with the hope of returning to track action on Friday and qualify in sprint weekend.
Also, Haas’ Esteban Ocon revealed of illness in Mexico after catching temperature. He battled through that during the weekend and had to recover a week after to be 100% for this weekend’s race in Brazil. “Yeah, I was sick last week [in Mexico],” he said to media. “It was quite bad.
“Took me quite a while to recover, to be honest. Yeah, I’m not the one to shout that I’m sick all around. But yeah it was probably one of the toughest races I’ve ever done. The last 15 laps were torture, to say the least. But we still completed it, we still got points for the team, and that was the important one. Quite strange to be sick that early in the year, to be honest but there were a lot of people in the paddock that were sick, and in our team as well. I mean, long seasons are quite tough.
“Hopefully now I’m immune for the rest of the winter, and for next year! It was like a bit cold – between Austin and Mexico I stayed two or three days in the room, just sleeping as much as I could, I had a temperature and stuff like that, so it was quite bad. It’s one of those things that you can’t control, unfortunately. Yeah, yeah, it took me a while to recover but I still managed to put some decent training. It was one that hit me up quite hard which…it was a bad surprise, to be honest.”
Here’s full FIA Race Directors’ note: https://www.fia.com/system/files/decision-document/2025_sao_paulo_grand_prix_-_race_directors_event_notes_.pdf
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