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

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  • LCP@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Leclerc win!!! Ferrari 1-2!

    Lawson going from 19th to 9th has been fantastic. Weird how VCARB gets one driver strategy right and one driver strategy horribly wrong each race.

    Colapinto getting a point and salvaging Williams’ weekend.

    Russell snatches P6 from Perez at the last moment.

    Disasterclass for Gasly and Alpine.

    • Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 days ago

      Lawson going from 19th to 9th has been fantastic. Weird how VCARB gets one driver strategy right and one driver strategy horribly wrong each race.

      Standard Vcarb fare at this point. Actually I am surprised that they got the strategy right even for 1 car

  • Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    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

    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
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      3 days ago

      Max should have had 2 of those penalties in that race. Just encourages him to keep running people off the track

      • Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 days ago

        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.

        • tankplanker@lemmy.world
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          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.

  • Microw@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    So… if Norris gets a penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage, then Max should get the same penalty?

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        3 days ago

        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.

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          3 days ago

          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

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    3 days ago

    Well, sucks for Lando, but I think he would’ve gotten a penalty for that overtake if he didn’t get one for track limits. He might’ve had a chance if they just gave back track position right away and keep fighting.

  • Microw@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Lawson and Colapinto proving themselves again.

    (I really like Valtteri, but come on Sauber, give that 2025 seat to Colapinto please)

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      3 days ago

      What a drive by Franco! He almost got fastest lap as well. Amazing battle with Magnussen

  • Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    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

  • Microw@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    You can’t discuss “overtaking outside of the track” when the car on the inside line was also off track

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        2 days ago

        Regardless of the apex argument, I just want consistency from the stewards. How is this any different from Sainz v Verstappen on lap 1?

        And don’t bring up the lap 1 argument, it wasn’t even turn 1.

  • PrincessKadath@ani.social
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    3 days ago

    5 seconds penalty for Russell for doing the same thing Verstappen did at the start of the race (obviously without consequences).