2026 Formula 1 United States GP
F1 United States GP: Follow qualifying at Austin with live timing
Follow along for updates from F1's qualifyinh session at the United States Grand Prix weekend
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Gasly's lost his time, first track limits ping of the session as he went off at Turn 9.
Bearman does a second run on the softs, and moves up to 11th. Stroll moves up to 14th, as Sainz breaks into 15th.
Alonso saves a slide in T20, and gets up to 12th to dump Colapinto into the bottom six.
Hulkenberg gets into sixth, ahead of the Mercedes pair, as Colapinto hurls his Alpine through the final corners and moves up to 10th.
Gasly goes faster than his team-mate by a tenth, as Lawson then cannons up to sixth. Grid-penalty encumbered Lindblad moves to 11th, before Bortoleto goes up to seventh.
Medium tyres for the Merc pair and Piastri, evidently confident of getting a decent benchmark in on the C3.
Hamilton gets a lap in, 0.155s off Leclerc, while Piastri is 1.3s off. Norris goes third, 0.357s off Leclerc.
Russell then posts a 1m36.241s, a second down on those mediums, and Antonelli is a tenth quicker than his team-mate.
Verstappen is 0.015s shy of Leclerc, and goes second; Hadjar drops into third, also within a tenth.
Bottas kicks off with a 1m38.853s, which is beaten by Perez. Bearman then sets a 1m37.254s.
Stroll, Sainz, and Albon drop in between the Haas and the Cadillacs.
Alonso then beats Bearman by a smidgen, before Ocon sets a 1m36.944s - but that's beaten by Leclerc's 1m35.200s.
Q1 is go!
The two Cadillacs are first on the road, followed by Bearman, Stroll, and the Williams pair.
Williams is struggling this weekend, so getting out of Q1 will be a stretch.
Five minutes until Q1 gets rolling - where we'll lose our slowest six runners.
Who's looking shaky? Cadillac and Williams will struggle, and anyone who can't get track limits right...
Track limits warnings
We had 207 (!) time deletions yesterday for track limits, but "only" 41 in FP3 - some of the white lines were widened overnight to reduce the quantity of offences.
Still, one imagines this should affect qualifying - especially when we start to get into the business end of the qualifying hour.
Alexander Albon, Williams
Photo by: Clive Mason / Getty Images
Grid penalties for Sunday
Colapinto - 10 places - new electronics
Bortoleto - 20 places - new battery and electronics
Lindblad - five places - new internal combustion engine (sixth of 2026)
Franco Colapinto, Alpine
Photo by: Clive Mason / Getty Images
The Porsche Carrera Cup North America is one of this weekend's support events, and there's been a crash between three cars along the start-finish straight - lots of debris, and a bit of liquid.
So, if you see any concrete dust on the track, that's why.
US Grand Prix qualifying - follow along right here!
And we're back! Thanks for joining us again, as we get dialled in for qualifying - which starts in about 45 minutes' time.
Alexander Albon, Williams, Isack Hadjar, Red Bull Racing
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