Event: USA Grand Prix
Track: Circuit of the Americas
Warm-up lap starts at: 14:00 Local | 21:00 CET | 20:00 UK | 12:00 LA | 04:00 Tokio
Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc scored his second pole position of the year in Austin. Red Bull looked to be off their normal pace with Max Verstappen on P6 and Sergio Pérez on P9. The RB19 normally has a very strong race pace. Both drivers will go to the front during the Grand Prix this Sunday.
Lando Norris showed the McLaren also is fast on at COTA and put the MCL60 on P6, which wasn't suspected by the McLaren team.
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton showed the new floor is working great. The British driver was only 0.134 sec. behind on Leclerc and only 0.009 sec behind his fellow countryman Norris, starting from P3.
It will be interesting to see if Verstappen will make it to the top step of the podium again.
Pole position is on the right side of the track at Austin.
F1 Starting Grid 2023 USA GP
| Pos | No | Driver | Team | Lap Time | Pole gap |
| 1 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 1:34,723 | |
| 2 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 1:34,853 | +0,130s |
| 3 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:34,862 | +0,139s |
| 4 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 1:34,945 | +0,222s |
| 5 | 63 | George Russell | Mercedes | 1:35,079 | +0,356s |
| 6 | 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 1:35,081 | +0,358s |
| 7 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 1:35,089 | +0,366s |
| 8 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 1:35,154 | +0,431s |
| 9 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Red Bull | 1:35,173 | +0,450s |
| 10 | 81 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 1:35,467 | +0,744s |
| 11 | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | AlphaTauri | 1:35,697 | +0,974s |
| 12 | 24 | Zhou Guanyu | Alfa Romeo | 1:35,698 | +0,975s |
| 13 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Alfa Romeo | 1:35,858 | +1,135s |
| 14 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas | 1:35,880 | +1,157s |
| 15 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | AlphaTauri | 1:35,974 | +1,251s |
| 16 | 27 | Nico Hülkenberg | Haas | 1:36,235 | +1,512s |
| 17 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 1:36,268 | +1,545s |
| 18 | 23 | Alex Albon | Williams | 1:36,315 | +1,592s |
| 19 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 1:36,589 | +1,866s |
| 20 | 2 | Logan Sargeant | Williams | 1:36,827 | +2,104s |
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At least Max will have a little tougher challenge to win rather than leading fromn start to finish.
I would like to see a new winner today. Norris would be my choice.