Race Results 2019 US F1 Grand Prix

2019 US F1 GP podium: 1. Bottas, 2. Hamilton, 3. Verstappen (Photo by Mark Thompson/Getty Images)

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

Weather: Dry 21.3°C
Tarmac: Dry  28.4°C
Humidity: 24.1%
Wind: 1.8 m/s S
Pressure: 1002.2 bar

Valtteri Bottas won the 2019 US F1 GP. He started from P1 and won for the 1st time in Austin. It was his 7th win and the 101st win for Mercedes. His team mate Lewis Hamilton won his 6th drivers title.

The start was clean again. Sebastian Vettel had a bad start in the Ferrari and lost 5 places in lap 1, while Alexander Albon lost 14 places because of a very early pitstop. He was sandwiched in turn 1 by Leclerc and Sainz.

Vettel was the first to retire with a right-rear suspension failure in lap 8.

Max pitted driving on P2.to the switch to hard tyres lap 14 he came back on P4 In lap 18 Lewis Hamilton got the message that he can stay out to go for 1 stop, while Bottas and Verstappen were claimed to do a 2 stop race.

Hamilton was called in lap 23 for his pitstop, but the English driver refused to come in and was passed by his team mate Valtteri Bottas on track.

With 10 laps to go Hamilton was still leading the race while Bottas had closed his gap to Hamilton to less than a second. In lap 52 Bottas passed Hamilton for the lead, while Verstappen was still 4 sec. away.

In the penultimate lap Kevin Magnussen retired with a brake failure and caused a yellow flag in sector 2.

Classification 2019 US GP

P	No	Driver	Team	Time	Laps	Grid	Pts
1	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	01:33:55.653	56	1	25
2	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	01:33:59.801	56	5	18
3	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	01:34:00.655	56	3	15
4	16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	01:34:47.892	56	4	13
5	23	Alex Albon	Red Bull	01:35:13.691	56	6	10
6	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	01:35:26.019	56	9	8
7	4	Lando Norris	McLaren	01:35:26.417	56	8	6
8	55	Carlos Sainz	McLaren	01:34:04.201	55	7	4
9	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Renault	01:34:08.115	55	11	2
10	11	Sergio Pérez	Racing Point	01:34:14.355	55	20	1
11	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo	01:34:15.280	55	17	0
12	26	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso	01:34:17.420	55	13	0
13	18	Lance Stroll	Racing Point	01:34:37.575	55	14	0
14	99	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo	01:34:49.443	55	16	0
15	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas	01:35:06.885	55	15	0
16	10	Pierre Gasly	Toro Rosso	01:33:11.079	54	10	0
17	63	George Russell	Williams	01:34:18.137	54	18	0
18	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	Brakes	52	12	0
DNF	88	Robert Kubica	Williams	Hydraulics	31	19	0
DNF	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	Suspension	7	2	0

Notes:

• Daniil Kvyat, Toro Rosso STR14 nol. 27 received a post-race, 5-second time penalty for causing a collision.
• Leclerc scored an additional point for setting the fastest lap of the race.

Fastest lap : 1:36.169 min by Charles Leclerc, Ferrari no.16 in lap 44
Highest speed : 328.7 km/h by Alexander Albon, Red Bull RB15

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