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VIdeo: Podium interviews at Interlagos

After closing their almost five-month streak without a success on final competition in Mexico, Rosberg rubber stamped 2nd invest the tournament with his 5th triumph associated with promotion.

Sebastian Vettel, now consigned to completing third in the standings, finished the podium places.

Hamilton protected his 3rd subject in Austin final thirty days, nevertheless the Briton's watch for his inaugural victory during the residence their boyhood hero Ayrton Senna will now be extended into a tenth period.

While pole-sitter Rosberg turned in a flawless screen only at that famous Interlagos track, Hamilton was on group radio hopeless to extend the tactical imagination of their Mercedes staff.

"Could you get myself on a new method in some way?'' he requested. ''I'm quicker but it's impossible to overtake.''

Their group, however, refused to break from their mantra of working identical strategies for each of their motorists. As a result, Rosberg and Hamilton pitted on three occasions - a lap aside - and a fairly tepid battle ensued.

"I experienced great rate, you cannot overtake here, " said Hamilton. "It is these types of outstanding track, however cannot get close adequate to race.

"i'm here to battle as soon as you're both in equivalent purchase it is similar to it really is already set right from the start. If you will find any other methods, let's get it done, why don't we take a risk, let's do any, and I am informed to look after the tyres.

''i'm want, 'No, i'm rushing', and I genuinely believe that is exactly what people want to see, regrettably today i really could maybe not get near enough to manage to put on a great battle so it was relatively boring."

Hamilton had a sniff at moving Rosberg when the German missed the apex at Turn One midway through this penultimate race of the season - but that has been largely as effective as it got for the globe champion, whose build-up to Sunday's battle was disrupted after his early-morning car crash in Monaco on Tuesday.

Rosberg stated Hamilton ended up being never ever near enough to pass him, which provoked his team-mate to say: "unlike exactly what Nico was saying, at one point I was all-over him, but inside one second, I just could not make do. I had the pace these days.

"it will likely be great to do something differently in the place of 'you're in on lap 15 and also you're in on lap 16', but in the end, there are so many strategic simulations, they selected the most effective two and that is everything we've done."

Rosberg will undoubtedly be wondering why he would not begin the summer season similar to this. He's got been on pole in the final five races, and since Hamilton stated the subject, he has claimed both grands prix with relative ease.

"i am pressing now as I was pressing at the start of the growing season, " said Rosberg which lapped the complete industry to 4th and crossed the line nearly eight seconds clear of Hamilton.

"I do not have an exact explanation for why it is going therefore highly today, but I'll only ensure that it it is going.

''Lewis post a challenge, but I became capable get a grip on it and I also never gave him the possibility therefore I in the morning pleased about that."

The FIA controversially decided to not ever honour the at the least 132 people who passed away because of Friday night's terror assaults in Paris with a one-minute silence ahead of the competition.

Rather the drivers gathered at the front end of grid to pay for their areas to road traffic victims, but Frenchman Romain Grosjean used the chance to unfurl their country's flag in tribute.

At the same time, another painful weekend for McLaren culminated in Jenson switch and Fernando Alonso finishing 15th and sixteenth correspondingly.

Residence favourite Felipe Massa, just who completed eighth, ended up being later on excluded from the battle after a tyre breach.

Your decision through the stewards lead to Grosjean taking his place, with Max Verstappen ninth and Pastor Maldonado rounding out the most notable 10.