F1 2025 Brazilian Grand Prix Sprint Race starting grid with penalties applied

The first race of this weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix gets underway TODAY (Saturday, November 8), before attention switches to the full-length F1 race on Sunday in Sao Paulo.

The grid has now been officially confirmed by the FIA following Friday's sprint qualifying session at Interlagos which saw reigning champion Max Verstappen grapple with his RB21 as championship leader Lando Norris took his first sprint pole position of the season.

After a disappointing hour of practice on Friday morning, Mercedes showed more pace in sprint qualifying and as a result, Kimi Antonelli will join Norris on the front row for Saturday's race.

The Brit's McLaren team-mate will line up on the second row for the 100km event alongside the other Mercedes piloted by George Russell, with Verstappen forced to settle with a starting position of P6 ahead of the sprint which could make or break his championship chances this year.

The official starting grid from F1's governing body has confirmed that Williams star Carlos Sainz and Red Bull driver Yuki Tsunoda will both have to start the Brazilian GP sprint from the pit lane having broken parc ferme by making changes to their vehicles.

Here is the starting grid for the Brazilian GP sprint race on Saturday.

F1 2025 Brazilian Grand Prix Sprint Race starting grid

*Red Bull have changed the suspension and tweaked the rear wing specification on Tsunoda's RB21, with the Japanese driver now sent to the pits having initially been set to start the sprint from P18.

**Williams opted to tweak Sainz's suspension set-up in order to trial different options for across the weekend in the 100km race, so he will start from the pits instead of P20.

What time is the F1 sprint race on today?

Lights out for the first race of the weekend is today (Saturday, November 8, 2025) at 11am local time (BRT).

Find the session start times converted to your local time zone below:

Brazilian Grand Prix 2025 Session Times

Sprint Race - Saturday, November 8, 2025

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