F1 US Grand Prix Live Commentary and Updates - FP1 & FP2
Live commentary and updates from Formula 1's US Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas.
By: Megan White, Stefan Mackley
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Leaderboard 1. Perez, Red Bull 2. Norris, McLaren 3. Hamilton, Mercedes 4. Bottas, Mercedes 5. Ricciardo, McLaren 6. Stroll, Aston Martin 7. Leclerc, Ferrari 8. Verstappen, Red Bull 9. Sainz, Ferrari 10. Giovinazzi, Alfa Romeo |
Status: Stopped
Here's the report from FP2 at the Circuit of the Americas: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/f1-united-states-gp-perez-tops-fp2-traffic-leaves-verstappen-eighth/6701305/
A bit of a faux-pas for Giovinazzi, who missed the pit entry - but he's managed to thread it back in to bring his session to a slightly inauspicious end.
Perez leads that session from Norris, Hamilton, Bottas and Ricciardo. Verstappen, unable to get a full flying run in, is eighth.
Alonso's managed to go backwards into the wall at Turn 19, but has managed to get the car out of the gravel and retreats to the pits. Player 14 eliminated.
"There's something at the end of the cockpit touching my leg in the corner", Ocon reports. That's debris in the corner, that's debris in the spotlight...
Perez and Hamilton now crack the 1m40s, so they're looking comfortable if early indications are anything to go by.
Leclerc and Sainz are on-par with the McLarens too, so they look evenly matched in the Ferrari/McLaren battle for third in the championship.
So yes, we're into the race run fun. The front-running medium runners - Perez, Hamilton, Bottas and Verstappen - are in the high 1m41s, with 1m42.0s for both Norris and Ricciardo at this stage.
Presumably a bit of pitstop practice punctuating the final half of the session too, as a number of cars have been in and out of the pits relatively swiftly.
Perez, Bottas and Hamilton return to the track on mediums, as does Verstappen, as we look to get the long runs in over the last 20 minutes.
"I just avoided a crash," says Mazepin, who finds an Aston Martin down his flank. That's something, I guess.
The top five are all in the pits, as are Verstappen and Sainz, having brought their quali sims to an end.
"Recharge off, go now", Verstappen is told - but the Dutchman gets a face-full of traffic as he was about to start his run.
It's Turn 19 where Hamilton went a little wide - the penultimate corner. If you've ever seen an IndyCar race here, you'll have seen a more...lax approach to that corner.
Scratch that, Hamilton's lap fell foul of track limits and has been claimed by the scythe's remorseless swing.
After a short spell in the pits, Bottas returns to the circuit bearing soft tyres. Hamilton does the same.
"When I'm back in the box I need to change my helmet, my eyes are watering like crazy," Mazepin says. Not a dry eye in the house.
Ocon has a bit of an excursion, exploring the vast expanse of run-off available at the Circuit of the Americas.
Hamilton and Verstappen have a bit of a race into Turn 1. "Stupid idiot," Verstappen responds, offering his middle finger as a riposte as Hamilton passes.
Leclerc displaces team-mate Sainz from fifth, half-a-second off the pace. Ricciardo now goes sixth on the soft tyre.
All of those top four laps were done on mediums. Sainz, in fifth and also on the middle tyre, is 0.9s off the pace.
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