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Autódromo José Carlos Pace
Storied motor-racing circuit where a lap-count dispute once rewrote a Formula One race result days after the checkered flag.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo returns to a chaotic, rain-soaked Formula One race here in April 2003, when six cars aquaplaned off track, Fernando Alonso was thrown into a tire wall, and marshals threw the red flag to stop the carnage. It follows the timing screens that flickered between two possible lap counts, the podium awarded on the spot, and the frantic search for a data card a mechanic had left behind in a rental car, the only evidence that could settle the dispute.
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