Brazilian Grand Prix race day
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By: Matt Beer
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As Massa Jr throws one of Dad's boots into the crowd, and Massa steps onto the podium to wave farewell to cheers of "Fe-li-pe! Fe-li-pe!", here's our race report: 
Barrichello switches back to Portuguese now, as does Massa, and the crowd is absolutely loving this. A much better way for Massa to say farewell than when he trudged down the pitlane having retired from the race last year - in what he also thought was his final home F1 race.
Massa: "I'm really emotional today, because of all of you guys. Thank you very much for everything that we passed together, for all of the support ad energy I felt here. I'm so happy for me race, thank you all of you guys - I love you all."
And here comes Rubens Barrichello and Felipe Massa onto the podium, to huge cheers from the crowd. Hugs all round for Massa.
Raikkonen: "I had a little tricky balance first set, it improved at the end of the first run, the second set the car handled very well and I could catch up. But it's impossible to overtake here if you have close speed between two cars. Lewis got close to me, but I got close to Sebastian and Valtteri. I wasn't too worried."
Bottas: "The only goal was to win the race, so very disappointing. We lost it in the start. After that it was very very close. I was trying to put pressure on Sebastian but it didn't lead to anything more. Lewis did a great comeback as well."
Vettel: "Initially I had a good getaway then I had wheelspin, so I thought I missed my chance. Then Valtteri had the same so I think I surprised him. I wanted to pull a gap and control the race from there. It's been a tough couple of weeks for us but it's nice to get both cars on the podium here."
Ricciardo is told that the incident that spun him off at the start is under investigation, he says he'll have to let the team tell him what happened as he was on the outside and couldn't see much.
Best radio message of the day goes to Massa's son, who tells his Dad - in English - "I love you and I will always support you. Also I loved your start!"
"Nice work Lewis, that was close, P4, you've got to be happy with that. Only 5.4 seconds off the lead."
Triumphant shouting from Massa on the radio after fending off Alonso and Perez to the flag in his final home race. Talking of flags, he's picked up a green one, presumably from a marshal. Maybe he thinks it's a Brazilian flag and hasn't noticed.
Donuts from Vettel - a rare sight in F1 given how teams have to look after their engines and all the other internals. Good stuff.
Perez couldn't really get involved at the end and takes ninth, with Hulkenberg completing the points finishers.
Hamilton shows his nose into Turn 1, but it was a half-hearted attempt to try to destabilise Raikkonen. No joy, the Finn doesn't budge.
Hamilton can't stay close enough through the twisty middle sector to do anything about Raikkonen. We're about to start the final lap.
No change in the fight for seventh: still as you were with Massa Alonso and Perez covered by a second.
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