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Max Verstappen will start from pole position as he looks to complete a weekend double after winning Saturday's sprint race, with Charles Leclerc alongside him on the front row.
Aston Martin pairing Lance Stroll and Fernando Alonso locked out the second row but in the battle for second in the drivers' standings, Lewis Hamilton enters the grand prix in a preferable position over rival Sergio Perez - starting fifth to the Mexican's ninth.
The Brazilian GP gets under way at 5pm GMT.
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Sargeant has stopped for his latest pitstop.
Alonso is slowly pulling away from Perez now. The undercut is calculated as 2.1s with the Red Bull driver sitting 2.3s back.
Signalling an imminent stop, Alonso has been instructed to use the life remaining in his tyres.
Signalling an imminent stop, Alonso has been instructed to use the life remaining in his tyres.
Gasly now makes it past Russell into eighth.
Russell has been told to lift and coast for engine temperatures, dropping him back towards Gasly.
That's five cars now out of the race - Leclerc on the formation lap, Albon and Magnussen at Turn 1, and then both Alfas
Bottas marks Alfa Romeo's second retirement of the day as he joins his team-mate back in the garage.
In the battle for P3, Perez has dropped back slightly from Alonso. It's likely the Red Bull driver is charging his battery to launch a full attack on the final podium place.
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Mid-way through his medium tyre stint, Verstappen sets a new fastest lap of the race with a 1m14.682s.
Sainz sweeps past Hamilton for sixth.
Out at the front, everything is remaining stable, with Verstappen leading Norris by 5.1s. But behind the pair, Perez is now little over one-second behind Norris.
Tsunoda makes it past Bottas into the points.
Sainz passes Russell for seventh! Next up the road is Hamilton.
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Hamilton says he is starting to struggle with his tyres as he fights to hold off team-mate Russell.
Sainz has now caught up to Russell and Hamilton in the fight for sixth.
Gasly makes it up into ninth as Ocon pits.
Gasly has just passed Sargeant for 11th on the main straight.
Russell is just 0.3s behind Hamilton now...
With the first round of stops completed, Verstappen leads from Norris, Alonso, Perez and Stroll. Then come the duelling Mercedes drivers.
This could be a tasty battle between the Mercedes team-mates, running sixth and seventh with Hamilton ahead.
Pit stop
Verstappen and Norris both stop from P1 and 2. As some of the last to stop, they return to the track in the same positions with a gap of 4.7s separating the pair.
On pit exit, Sainz is held up by Tsunoda after being waved out of his pit box into the path of the AlphaTauri driver.
Pit stop
In comes Alonso. Fresh mediums go on. He was six seconds behind Norris before the stop, as Sainz now stops. The Ferrari driver was one place behind Alonso before these stops.
Piastri, who is running last, has stopped for a set of soft tyres.
Stroll makes it past Russell into ninth with his fresher tyres.
Pit stop
In comes Stroll from P4. With mediums now fitted, he drops behind the Mercedes drivers and Perez, returning to the track in 10th.
Further back, Zhou has had to retire his Alfa Romeo.
Perez makes it past Hamilton at Turn 4.
Perez is once again chasing Hamilton, this time for eighth.
Verstappen, Norris and Alonso remain unfussed by the early stops of those behind with a more considerable margin enjoyed in the early phase.
Pit stop
Russell stops and now, one lap later, so does Perez. Like the others, its mediums now fitted to his car.
Pit stop
After dropping behind Perez, Hamilton pits to swap out his softs for a new set of medium tyres. Watch the rest of the lead group pit in the coming laps.
Bottas has also stopped, and comes out in 13th.
And there is the move for P4. Perez lunges down the inside into T1 after activating DRS. As was the case against Russell, Perez is comfortably able to hold the position into T4.
Sargeant has now pitted from 13th.
Perez is now within DRS range of Hamilton with a half-second margin. This now looks like a matter of if and not when the Mexican will make his move.
Tsunoda has slid off somewhere - his rear-left tyre has collected some grass.
Ocon and Zhou have pitted already and were out 14th and 15th.
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"We need more management at T11," Mercedes instructs Hamilton.
"Do you want me to race or concede positions? We will concede more positions if I lift," he responds.
The Mercedes driver is far from happy.
"Do you want me to race or concede positions? We will concede more positions if I lift," he responds.
The Mercedes driver is far from happy.
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Following the pass, a radio message from Russell is shared, questioning: "Are we working together or doing our own race."
The response comes: "We are still discussing."
The response comes: "We are still discussing."
Sainz is closing on Stroll, with Gasly right behind them.
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