ROUND 18: 🇺🇸 United States
FORMULA 1 PIRELLI UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX 2024
Circuit stats
- Circuit name: Circuit of The Americas
- First Grand Prix: 2012
- Number of laps: 56
- Circuit Length: 5.513 km
- Race Distance: 308.405 km
- Lap record: 1:36.169 Charles Leclerc (2019)
- 2023 winner: Max Verstappen
Track Map
He went offtrack to prevent an overtake that would have happened otherwise?
I know, this is not an established way of using that penalty, but it would be consequential.
This argument would have only worked if Lando had rejoined behind and then complained that Max pushed him off. Frankly that’s what he should have done - he would have another chance to have a go at max while also potentially have max get a penalty. McLaren really fucked that up
Max has never ever gotten a penalty for pushing people off. Look up how he pushed Hamilton in Brazil in 2021 and that was no investigation necessary: https://youtu.be/uhrAgoHCoyo