Lap times 1st practice 2018 US F1 Grand Prix

A part of Circuit of the Americas track that wet during FP1

Event: US F1 Grand Prix
Track: Circuit of The Americas

Weather:  Clouded Rain,  16ºC
Tarmac: Wet, 17.4ºC
Wind speed: 2.9 km/h
Humidity: 95%

The first practice of the 2018 US F1 GP started off very wet. In this session we saw to replacement drivers again. Lando Norris again was driving the McLaren of Stoffel Vandoorne. Sean Galeal drove the Toro Rosso of Brandon Hartley.

Marcus Ericsson was the first to go out in his Sauber C37. He used the full wets but didn't set a lap time.

The first drivers who put a lap time on the sheet were the drivers of Red Bull.Daniel Ricciardo drove a 1:55.226 on intermediate tyres and Max Verstappen did a lap in 1:53.664 min on the same tyres.

Half way the session FP1 got red flagged because Charles Leclerc spun his Sauber and did some off-road. He lost a lot of gravel coming back on the Austin track that had to be removed.

With 20 minutes to go rain master Lewis Hamilton showed he is the one to beat again and drove 1.3 seconds faster than Bottas on a hot lap with the Mercedes W09 with intermediate tyres.

Here you can find an overview of the used power unit elements in 2018.

FP1 Lap Times 2018 US GP

PosNoDriverTeamLap Time1st GapLapsTyres
144Lewis HamiltonMercedes1:47.5026Inters
277Valtteri BottasMercedes1:48.806+1.304s7Inters
333Max VerstappenRed Bull1:48.847+1.345s9Inters
43Daniel RicciardoRed Bull1:49.326+1.824s9Inters
55Sebastian VettelFerrari1:49.489+1.987s18Inters
67Kimi RäikkönenFerrari1:49.928+2.426s20Inters
755Carlos SainzRenault1:50.665+3.163s8Inters
88Romain GrosjeanHaas1:50.821+3.319s10Inters
916Charles LeclercSauber1:50.961+3.459s14Inters
109Marcus EricssonSauber1:51.016+3.514s14Inters
1114Fernando AlonsoMcLaren1:51.036+3.534s9Inters
1247Lando NorrisMcLaren1:51.232+3.730s9Inters
1310Pierre GaslyToro Rosso1:51.234+3.732s19Inters
1411Sergio PérezForce India1:51.459+3.957s18Inters
1535Sergey SirotkinWilliams1:51.589+4.087s14Inters
1620Kevin MagnussenHaas1:51.614+4.112s15Inters
1731Esteban OconForce India1:51.655+4.153s17Inters
1827Nico HülkenbergRenault1:51.717+4.215s7Inters
1918Lance StrollWilliams1:51.896+4.394s14Inters
2038Sean GelaelToro Rosso1:52.625+5.123s21Inters


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