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It was a great day to be a Ferrari fan in Austin. Not only did the Scuderia ease to a dominant one-two finish with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, but the team’s engines also helped the grid’s sole American team secure their best-ever result on US soil. Here’s those and a heap load more fascinating insights from the Circuit of The Americas…
• It was Ferrari’s first one-two finish in the United States since Indianapolis 2006 with Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa.
• It was only Ferrari’s third one-two finish of the decade, and sixth in the last 14 years.
• Leclerc’s win comes after he celebrated his 27th birthday earlier this week.
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• Leclerc started P4 today. He also started P4 for his last race win at Monza.
• Leclerc had only led four laps in Austin before today.
• It was the second year in a row where the winner came from outside the top three on the grid here (Verstappen won from P6 in 2023).
• Leclerc was the first driver ever to lead Lap 1 from below the front row of the grid in Austin (he started fourth).
• Carlos Sainz’s P2 in the sister Ferrari was his best finish since winning the Australian Grand Prix earlier this year.
• It ends a seven-race run without a podium finish for Sainz.
• Red Bull’s Max Verstappen moved into a third-place finish after a time penalty for the driver ahead, having lost a third-place finish to a time penalty in 2017.
• It was the first time Verstappen has failed to win in Austin since 2019 (since when he’d taken consecutive wins in Grands Prix and Sprint races).
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• Verstappen finished 19.412 seconds behind the winner, the closest he has come to victory since the summer break.
• Verstappen remains winless in the last nine Grands Prix.
• Lando Norris took P4 for McLaren after a five-second time penalty cost him a podium finish.
• Norris now lies 57 points behind Verstappen in the drivers’ championship.
• McLaren team mate Oscar Piastri finished in P5 to remain the top scorer in the last nine Grands Prix, with 160 points.
• Mercedes’ George Russell started from the pit lane, but finished in P6 where he originally qualified.
• P7 for Sergio Perez was the Red Bull driver’s worst Austin finish since 2019.
• P8 for Nico Hulkenberg gave Haas their best-ever finish in a home Grand Prix.
• Haas have scored in four consecutive races for first time since midway through 2018.
• With P9 on his RB return, Liam Lawson tied his career best finish (Singapore 2023).
• At Williams, Franco Colapinto took P10 for his second points finish in four Grand Prix starts.
• Colapinto held the fastest lap of the race until there were three laps to go.
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• Kevin Magnussen was 11th in the second Haas, meaning the team finished 11th in a Grand Prix for the eighth time this year.
• Lewis Hamilton retired on Lap 3, having never previously failed to finish a race in the United States in his career (1 x Indianapolis, 11 x Austin, 3 x Miami, 1 x Las Vegas).
• It was Mercedes’ first-ever failure to finish an Austin F1 race.
• It was Hamilton’s shortest race (two laps completed) since going out at the first corner at Qatar 2023.
• His off triggered the first Safety Car deployment since the Canadian Grand Prix 10 races ago.
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