BRAZILIAN GRAND PRIX - IT'S POLE FOR MAX, BUT WHICH TEAMS WILL BE PODIUMISED!

Massive Congratulations to Team Red Bull and their intrepid and daring Max Verstappen, for having raced to Pole position for today's Brazilian Grand Prix. 

Max was persistent in attacking the circuit in his determination to achieve Pole position, which paid of handsomely, as it were.

Big Congratulation also, to Team Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel, for making it to P.2, and to Team Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton, for placing Car 44 at P.3.

The benefits and advantages of being on Pole for a Formula 1 Grand Prix are well known, but they are not necessarily pointers to predicting which teams and racers will finish on the Podium at the end of the race. 

At least, with all things being equal, except for a minority of circuits whose infrastructures lack the flexibility to dynamically interact with the innovations and brilliance of the racers.

Brazil's Interlagos Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace Circuit, with its history of  feared and/or actual inclement weather and atmospheric conditions.  

Is not one of those tracks which are more unresponsive to how they are driven and the kind of tactics and strategies the teams and racers use to negotiate them. 

This being the case, it seems reasonable for us to imagine that the current line up on the Starting Grid, is probably unlikely to be what it will be, at the end of the 71  undulating and eye-turning laps.

So, yes, for Lewis' fans, he is not starting on Pole in today's race, as he had done in 2018.  

But, with the right race strategies employed and team, racers and cars coordination, the outcome for Hamilton and Mercedes could still become as it was during the 2018 Grand Prix. 

With Leclerc having been demoted towards the back of the grid with his engine change, he might have less chance than Bottas of displacing any of the Qualifying Podiumites. 

But, as ~I am fond of saying; the race is now won or loss, and ones final position in its outcome, is not determined until the racers taking each of the designated positions have raced past the Checkered Flag.

Until then, it is all in the hands of the relevant gods, the quality of performance and chemistry of the teams and their drivers, and the track dynamics and atmosphere.

We can but hope that all things will come together to provide everybody with a great and exciting Brazilian Grand Prix.