United States GP: Max Verstappen equals win record with late Lewis Hamilton overtake

Red Bull won the constructors' rubric successful beforehand of a grounds assemblage astatine the Circuit of the Americas

Max Verstappen fought backmost to walk Lewis Hamilton to triumph a melodramatic United States Grand Prix and adjacent the grounds for victories successful a season.

The pit occupation gave Hamilton a accidental to extremity his and Mercedes' triumph drought successful a hard play for the team.

But the gait of the caller satellite champion was conscionable excessively much, and Verstappen caught and passed Hamilton with six laps to go, the seven-time champion defenceless against the formidable straight-line velocity of the Red Bull.

Verstappen's 13th triumph this twelvemonth equals the grounds for wins successful a season, held by Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel, and was capable for Red Bull to clinch the constructors' rubric for the archetypal clip since 2013, securing a treble aft Verstappen clinched the drivers' rubric past clip retired successful Japan.

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc finished 3rd from 12th connected the grid, helped by the 2 information car periods that punctuated the mediate of the race, up of Red Bull's Sergio Perez and Mercedes' George Russell.

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Verstappen dedicated the triumph to the precocious Dietrich Mateschitz, the team's co-owner, who died connected Saturday, and which paused the Red Bull's discussions with governing assemblage the FIA aft being recovered blameworthy of breaching F1's fund headdress past year.

The 2nd information car was caused consecutive aft the restart from the archetypal erstwhile Fernando Alonso's Alpine crashed into the backmost of Lance Stroll's Aston Martin, which had moved precocious successful defence against the Spaniard.

Somehow, contempt his car rearing up into the aerial astatine 180mph, crashing down to the track, and past hitting the obstruction and breaking its beforehand wing, Alonso fought backmost from past spot to decorativeness seventh.

It was a thrust that volition surely spell down successful the annals of large Alonso performances, careless of the result of a stewards' enquiry into the incident.

Hollywood ending

In beforehand of a grounds assemblage astatine the Circuit of the Americas successful Austin, Texas, and a phalanx of celebrities led by Hollywood prima Brad Pitt, the contention served up 1 of the astir breathtaking spectacles of the year.

Verstappen took the pb from pole-winner Carlos Sainz arsenic soon arsenic the lights went out, and the Spaniard was taken retired of contention successful a collision with Russell astatine the archetypal corner, for which the Briton was fixed a five-second penalty.

Verstappen was successful control, measuring his gait astatine the beforehand arsenic the remainder of the tract fought a bid of adjacent battles behind.

But his contention looked similar it mightiness person fallen isolated erstwhile determination was a hold fitting his near beforehand instrumentality astatine his last pit stop.

Verstappen sent a passive-aggressive vigor connection to his team, and was reminded they were "all successful it together", earlier mounting astir recovering his position.

And contempt the determined efforts of Leclerc and past Hamilton, determination was thing that could clasp him back.

Verstappen admitted helium had "got a spot emotional" but told his squad they "deserved" the rubric treble arsenic helium spoke implicit the vigor connected the slowing-down lap.

Lando Norris passed Alonso connected the penultimate thigh to instrumentality sixth spot and champion of the midfield for McLaren, portion Sebastian Vettel pulled a superb walk connected Kevin Magnussen's Haas connected the last thigh to instrumentality seventh place.

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