Max Verstappen put in an assured drive to take a dominant victory in the 2023 Formula 1 Brazilian Grand Prix, making it a record-breaking 17th win for the world champion in 2023. Almost everyone used the Medium in the middle stint, with lap numbers similar to those on the Softs. For the start, 19 drivers had chosen the Soft, with seven of them going for a new set of C4. For the restart, after the first lap accident, which involved Albon, Magnussen, Piastri, Ricciardo and Hulkenberg, two drivers decided to change their approach to the race: Piastri went from Soft to Medium while Sargeant went in the opposite direction. Everyone else went for the two-stop, with 15 drivers following the sequence C4-C3-C4, while Piastri used two sets of Soft after his first stint on the Medium. Norris did the longest stint on the Medium (32 laps), and Piastri extended a Soft term the most, going for 28 laps.

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