Published October 19,2024
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen received the U.S. Grand Prix dash from pole place on Saturday to finish an eight-race shedding streak and prolong his Formula One championship lead over McLaren’s Lando Norris to 54 factors.
Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz completed second, 3.882 seconds behind Verstappen, after passing Norris firstly of the final lap at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas when the Briton went too deep into flip one.
“It feels a bit like old times. I’m very happy with today. If you look at the whole race, Ferrari was also very quick,” stated Verstappen.
“For us, finally we are racing again. Normally we are always looking back but now we can just do our own race, so we had good pace.”
The victory was Verstappen’s first of any kind since a dash in Austria in June and meant the triple champion has now received all 4 100km sprints to this point this season with two extra nonetheless to return.
Norris had made an awesome begin from fourth on the grid, seizing second place on the within into the primary nook and holding on till the nineteenth lap.
The Briton nearly misplaced third place in addition to he went large at flip 12 with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc proper behind and so they nearly tangled at flip 15.
Stewards famous potential erratic driving by the McLaren contender.
“It was a tough one. I thought I could hang onto second but Carlos did a good job. My front tyres were completely finished, so there wasn’t a lot I could do,” stated Norris.
“A disappointing end but I’m happy with the race result and a good amount of points.”
Leclerc was fourth with the Mercedes pair of George Russell and seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton ending fifth and sixth.
The Haas pair of Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hulkenberg took the ultimate factors in seventh and eighth, a giant enhance for the U.S.-owned group of their house race.
The primary U.S. Grand Prix is on Sunday, with qualifying on Saturday.
Source: www.anews.com.tr