ROUND 18: 🇺🇸 United States
FORMULA 1 PIRELLI UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX 2024
Circuit stats
- Circuit name: Circuit of The Americas
- First Grand Prix: 2012
- Number of laps: 56
- Circuit Length: 5.513 km
- Race Distance: 308.405 km
- Lap record: 1:36.169 Charles Leclerc (2019)
- 2023 winner: Max Verstappen
Track Map
Disaster for Norris oof. What a fantastic start for Leclerc.
The red bull looks lazy at the front end. Max seems to have so much understeer
Norris shouldn’t get a pen for leaving the track. Was forced to go off track.
What he should get a pen for is moving in the braking zone in turn 1
Lawson and Colapinto proving themselves again.
(I really like Valtteri, but come on Sauber, give that 2025 seat to Colapinto please)
What a drive by Franco! He almost got fastest lap as well. Amazing battle with Magnussen
So… if Norris gets a penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage, then Max should get the same penalty?
Well Verstappen lost a position. How are you justifying the gaining an advantage for max¿?
He went offtrack to prevent an overtake that would have happened otherwise?
I know, this is not an established way of using that penalty, but it would be consequential.
This argument would have only worked if Lando had rejoined behind and then complained that Max pushed him off. Frankly that’s what he should have done - he would have another chance to have a go at max while also potentially have max get a penalty. McLaren really fucked that up
Max has never ever gotten a penalty for pushing people off. Look up how he pushed Hamilton in Brazil in 2021 and that was no investigation necessary: https://youtu.be/uhrAgoHCoyo
Got to say that penalty for leaving a track and gaining an advantage is very sus. If anything it should be for the turn 1 chop in the braking zone
Max should have had 2 of those penalties in that race. Just encourages him to keep running people off the track
Turn 1 was not a pen man. See the race starts in COTA for every year and there will be atleast one car being pushed wide in turn 1. Hell in 2015 and 2021, the driver in P2 pushed out the pole sitter at T1. In 2017 and 2018, Hamilton conceded the corner and didn’t try to go side by side which is why he was not forced wide. The nature of the track coupled with cars being on cold tyres always leads to that.
I’m wondering what Toto was talking about in the interview.
Yeah what happened to leaving a car’s width?
This car ahead at the apex can do anything it wants is bullshit
The biggest issue is that as long as you are not dangerously out of control, in other words avoid a slide or lock up, you can brake as late as you absolutely want to regardless if you are going to make the corner and just go wide. The rule needs changing that you have to be able to make the corner inside the lines otherwise this legal pushing off the track will just continue and make overtaking on a corner between two similar performing cars almost impossible.
And the Verstappen Move strikes again 🕺
Kimi Antonelli actually aged over the break, he doesn’t look like a little kid anymore lol
Welcome back safety car 🚗
Hamilton:(
Surprised that alpine did not get penalized for gasly’s unsafe release in the quali
5 seconds penalty for Russell for doing the same thing Verstappen did at the start of the race (obviously without consequences).
Can’t really compare both, different circumstances.
Lap 1 incidents are never treated the same as during later laps
Ridiculous starts from Leclerc, Hamilton and lawson
Damn I jinxed lewis
Hoping for an exciting race after the unimpressive Singapore GP.
Already more entertaining
That Ferrari looks quick. Can see them finishing 1-2 today