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
Max should have had 2 of those penalties in that race. Just encourages him to keep running people off the track
Turn 1 was not a pen man. See the race starts in COTA for every year and there will be atleast one car being pushed wide in turn 1. Hell in 2015 and 2021, the driver in P2 pushed out the pole sitter at T1. In 2017 and 2018, Hamilton conceded the corner and didn’t try to go side by side which is why he was not forced wide. The nature of the track coupled with cars being on cold tyres always leads to that.