Race Start
Sunday, November 8 at 12:00 PM EST
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Round 19 of 22 · Autódromo José Carlos Pace (Interlagos) · November 6–8, 2026
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| Session | Eastern | Central | Mountain | Pacific |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Practice 1 | Fri, Nov 6, 10:30 AM EST | Fri, Nov 6, 9:30 AM CST | Fri, Nov 6, 8:30 AM MST | Fri, Nov 6, 7:30 AM PST |
| Practice 2 | Fri, Nov 6, 2:00 PM EST | Fri, Nov 6, 1:00 PM CST | Fri, Nov 6, 12:00 PM MST | Fri, Nov 6, 11:00 AM PST |
| Practice 3 | Sat, Nov 7, 9:30 AM EST | Sat, Nov 7, 8:30 AM CST | Sat, Nov 7, 7:30 AM MST | Sat, Nov 7, 6:30 AM PST |
| Qualifying | Sat, Nov 7, 1:00 PM EST | Sat, Nov 7, 12:00 PM CST | Sat, Nov 7, 11:00 AM MST | Sat, Nov 7, 10:00 AM PST |
| Race | Sun, Nov 8, 12:00 PM EST | Sun, Nov 8, 11:00 AM CST | Sun, Nov 8, 10:00 AM MST | Sun, Nov 8, 9:00 AM PST |
Interlagos is the title-decider track: more championships have swung on this old-school, anti-clockwise rollercoaster outside São Paulo than anywhere else in the modern era. The Senna S at Turn 1 drops downhill into one of F1's great overtaking zones, and the weather off the surrounding hills is famously unstable. Short lap, passionate crowd, unpredictable rain — Interlagos rarely produces a boring race.
Interlagos packs remarkable variety into 4.3 anti-clockwise kilometers: the plunging Senna S at Turn 1 — downhill, off-camber, and the best overtaking zone in South America — a long, flat-out drink of a back section, and a climbing final sector that slingshots cars onto a pit straight where the tow decides everything. Anti-clockwise running loads drivers' neck muscles the 'wrong' way, an old-school test few modern circuits pose.
The weather rolling off the surrounding hills is a genuine competitor: storms build over the circuit with minutes of warning, and Interlagos in mixed conditions is arguably the best racing spectacle in the sport. The compact lap keeps the field bunched, the crowd noise carries onto the broadcast, and slower cars can genuinely defend here — which is why so many of the sport's great comeback drives happened on this patch of São Paulo.
Interlagos is where championships come to be decided: Emerson Fittipaldi and José Carlos Pace (for whom the circuit is officially named) won its first F1 races in the 1970s, Ayrton Senna scored his cathartic home win in 1991 while stuck in sixth gear, and the 2008 finale — Lewis Hamilton snatching the title from Felipe Massa at the final corner of the final lap — remains the most dramatic conclusion in the sport's history. Max Verstappen's 2024 charge from 17th in the rain joined the legend instantly.
Very US-friendly: São Paulo is only 1-2 hours ahead of Eastern time in November, so the race starts late Sunday morning/midday for American viewers. If championship math is still alive by November, this is historically where it gets settled — clear your Sunday.
São Paulo is only two hours ahead of US Eastern time in November, so the race starts at a luxurious 11 AM Eastern / 8 AM Pacific on Sunday — the friendliest 'overseas' race of the year for American viewers. If the 2026 title fight is still mathematically alive, history says this is where it detonates: clear your Sunday morning and watch live, because Interlagos with championship stakes is the sport at its best.
The race starts Sunday, November 8 at 12:00 PM EST. That's 11:00 AM CST Central, 10:00 AM MST Mountain, and 9:00 AM PST Pacific.
No, it uses the standard format: three practice sessions, qualifying (Saturday, November 7 at 1:00 PM EST), and the Grand Prix.
71 laps of the 4.309 km Autódromo José Carlos Pace (Interlagos), a race distance of about 306 km.
The Brazilian round traditionally sits near the end of the season, and the circuit's unpredictable weather, close racing, and frequent safety cars make it hard for points leaders to play it safe — producing legendary deciders like the 2008 Hamilton-Massa finale.
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