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21 Oct 2022
20min remaining: Lewis Hamilton drags his Mercedes-AMG up into second, with Alonso third quickest ahead of Vettel. Sainz has dropped down the order and is now eighth quickest.
Lance Stroll, surprisingly, went quickest for the moment, just 0.002 seconds quicker than Verstappen.
21 Oct 2022
21 Oct 2022
21 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022
After 20/60min: Verstappen is now the quickest driver on track with a 1:36.706. He is marginally quicker than the Ferraris of Leclerc and Sainz. Fernando Alonso is looking particularly strong in the Alpine, with the team fitting a new engine to his car.
Mercedes-AMG's Lewis Hamilton and George Russell are yet to show their true hand.
22 Oct 2022
30min remaining: Hamilton went quickest as we neared the halfway mark, but was displaced by Perez almost immediately. The Red Bull driver set a 1:36.578. Verstappen and Leclerc are third and fourth quickest, but they are yet to set times on fresher rubber.
Mick Schumacher is still in the pits after a reporting an issue early in the session. He is the only driver yet to set a time.
22 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022
10min remaining: Schumacher is out on track and set a 1:38.642. He is more than two seconds off Perez's pace. The top runners are all on a fresh set of the Soft tyre and they will be going all out in the final minutes.
Perez is still quickest with a 1:36.578.
22 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022
That's the end of the session. Verstappen is quickest with a 1:35.825, more than 0.3sec quicker than Leclerc.
Thank you for joining us. Up next, qualifying!
23 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022
Good evening and welcome to our LIVE coverage of tonight's USA Grand Prix.
Lights out at 21:00.
23 Oct 2022
The championship might be over as a contest, but there is still plenty to look forward to in this one and we have a tasty looking grid.
Carlos Sainz, of course, is on pole with Max Verstappen 2nd.
Then, there is an all Mercedes second row.
Here is a reminder of how they'll line up ...
23 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022
Lap 1/56: Verstappen gets the jump on Sainz when the lights go out, leading into Turn 1 and out of it. Sainz then spun and dropped to the back of the field. He reported a puncture.
The big movers are the two Aston Martins. Stroll is 3rd with Vettel in 5th.
Verstappen now leads from Hamilton.
23 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022
Lap 5/56: Verstappen still leads from Hamilton, but the gap has increased to 2.3 seconds. Stroll is in third, but he is under increasing pressure from Russell who passed him for the position.
Perez has since passed Vettel for fifth, and is now hounding Stroll for fourth. Aston Martin will now just hope to have both cars inside the top 10 by the end of the race.
23 Oct 2022
Lap 10/56: Perez is on Russell's case for third, but the Mercedes driver is keeping a cool head with the fast-charging Red Bull on his gearbox. Verstappen and Hamilton are still in front.
The circuit is quite demanding on the front-left tyre and already it is showing intense graining across the field. Could the race go from a two- to a three-stopper? And as we speak, Bottas heads into the pits to replace his Mediums for a set of Hards.
23 Oct 2022
Lap 15/56: The frontrunners have all paid the pits a visit for a set of Hard tyres. And though Verstappen is still out in front, he now has Leclerc behind him. The Ferrari driver is yet to pit and is still on the Medium tyre. Expect him to drop down the field when he makes his stop.
Stroll and Vettel are also yet to stop. It's fair to assume that Aston Martin's hopes of a top 10 finish is at risk.
23 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022
Lap 30/56: Verstappen leads from Hamilton by almost two seconds, while Perez is fending off Leclerc in third. Russell served his five-second penalty for crashing into Sainz at the race's start and is now running in 5th - 1.5sec behind Leclerc.
Leclerc manages to pass Perez for 3rd, launching a daring move into one of the braking zones.
23 Oct 2022
Lap 40/56: Hamilton is now in second behind Vettel, with Verstappen in third. The Red Bull team fumbled when their driver came into the pits, gifting Hamilton the race's lead (Vettel will pit again).
Verstappen is little more than four seconds behind Hamilton and is closing the gap at a quick rate.
23 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022
Max Verstappen wins the US Grand Prix! Overcoming a pit stop fumble and a duel with old rival Lewis Hamilton, the Dutchman clawed his Red Bull back to the top.
The 2022 F1 Drivers’ champion leaped into the race’s lead and looked unstoppable until he visited the pits for a second time. A rare mistake from the team saw him lose positions, rejoining the race behind Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) and Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes-AMG).
But with a never-say-die attitude, he picked off his rivals to win the race, and equalling Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher’s record of 13 wins in a single season.
The top 10:
1. Max Verstappen
2. Lewis Hamilton
3. Charles Leclerc
4. Sergio Perez
5. George Russell
6. Fernando Alonso
7. Lando Norris
8. Sebastian Vettel
9. Kevin Magnussen
10. Yuki Tsunoda
