How the Brazilian Grand Prix unfolded

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Red Bull's Max Verstappen passed Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes twice to take a brilliant victory in a gripping Brazilian Grand Prix.

Behind him, the race developed into a dramatic finale as the Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc collided while disputing fourth place. Then, Hamilton collided with Red Bull's Alexander Albon, and Toro Rosso's Pierre Gasly held off the Mercedes for second place on the line.

It was a remarkable end to one of the most incident-packed races in recent memory. "What a race!" Verstappen said, summing it up perfectly. "Loved it."

Hamilton took the blame for his crash with Albon and was penalised after the race by five seconds, demoting him to seventh - promoting Carlos Sainz to third for McLaren.

Verstappen was a deserved winner in a race that he controlled from the start, but Gasly was a star, Hamilton and Mercedes had an unusually difficult race, and yet again there will be a sharp focus on Vettel's driving and character, as the four-time champion continued his battle for supremacy at Ferrari with his young team-mate.

Charles Leclerc has also gone on to Twitter to talk about Pierre Gasly. The Ferrari man, rather wisely, has decided against leaving his thoughts on the collision with Ferrari team-mate Sebastian Vettel.

And here is Gasly, himself.

And a touching tribute as well to Anthoine Hubert, the Formula 2 driver who tragically died at Spa earlier this year.

Speaking of podium celebrations, this is from earlier on when Pierre Gasly came second, for the first podium finish of his career.

What do you do when you get your first podium finish but the podium celebrations have already taken place?

Have a podium celebration of your own.

Brilliant stuff from McLaren.

A truly classy tweet from Renault, offering their huge, huge congratulations to rivals McLaren.

Carlos Sainz gets his podium moment. Sort of...

And this from former McLaren star Fernando Alonso to his old team and fellow Spaniard Carlos Sainz...

And now this from Carlos Sainz. He started 20th, he ended third. Well played, sir. Well played.

McLaren have been sitting on this tweet for a while, now they can hit the publish button.

Some words from Honda on their one-two performance.

For the first time ever, Carlos Sainz is a top-three finisher.

He's been bumped up from fourth to third, then had to sweat a bit as there was an investigation, now he's cleared and third is his.

Next up, Nico Hulkenberg.

That's a five-second penalty for him. But that is the least exciting of any punishments as that has no say on the result. He was 15th and is still 15th.

His offence, overtaking before the restart.

Here's the decision from the stewards on the two Ferraris...

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Don't know if Charles Leclerc will agree with that. No-one at fault, say the stewards after that incident with the two Ferraris hitting each other.

Time for some penalty hearings. First up. Ferrari.

No late drama for Lance Stroll. He ran over some debris after the Ferraris went into each other, that ruined his own race and he was done.

A reminder, as of right now, this is how the top 10 looks.

1. Max Verstappen (Red Bull)
2. Pierre Gasly (Toro Rosso) +6.0 secs
3. Carlos Sainz (McLaren) +8.8
4. Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo) +9.4
5. Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo) +10.2
6. Daniel Ricciardo (Renault) +10.5
7. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) +11.1 (five-second penalty already added)
8. Lando Norris (McLaren) +11.2
9. Sergio Perez (Racing Point) +11.5
10. Daniil Kvyat (Toro Rosso) +11.9
11. Kevin Magnussen (Haas) +12.7
12. George Russell (Williams) +13.5
13. Romain Grosjean (Haas) +14.2
14. Alexander Albon (Red Bull) +14.9
15. Nico Hulkenberg (Renault) +18.0
16. Robert Kubica (Williams) one lap

DNF...Sebastian Vettel, Charles Leclerc, Lance Stroll, Valtteri Bottas