As after each Grand Prix, it is time to discover the most striking statistics, the records that have been broken, the remarkable series still in progress or which came to an abrupt end during the last weekend…
Qualifications
During the last six Grands Prix in Austin, there have been six different polemen: Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas, Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz, Charles Leclerc, and now Lando Norris.
Norris took his sixth pole position of the season, and his fourth in the last five Grands Prix. It gave McLaren its first pole in the United States since Hamilton’s at Indianapolis in 2007.
Norris’ lap, completed in 1m 32.330s, is the fastest of the decade on the Austin circuit.
Verstappen qualified in second position, missing out on his first pole in eight races by just 0.031s.
Sainz made his fifth top-three start this season, although he has only made it to the front row once. It is also the first time that he has beaten Leclerc in qualifying for six races.
Oscar Piastri took fifth place for the second consecutive race.
Pierre Gasly obtained seventh place (in Q3), matching his qualifying performance in Austin in 2023. It is also the best qualification of the year for him and Alpine.
Fernando Alonso reaches Q3 for the seventh time in the last eight Grands Prix.
Kevin Magnussen managed to get into Q3 for the first time this year, and for the first time in Austin in ten years.
Yuki Tsunoda qualified eleventh, having only reached Q3 once in the last six races.
Nico Hulkenberg was beaten by his teammate for the fourth time this season… only.
Lance Stroll has only made it to Q3 once in seven attempts in Austin, in 2022.
Liam Lawson did not complete a lap in Q2 due to a 60-place grid penalty.
Hamilton found himself 19th, qualifying behind Valtteri Bottas… although he had never qualified outside the top five in his 11 previous appearances in Austin.
Excluding accidents and grid penalties, Hamilton had only been in the bottom two once before, at Silverstone in 2009.
Zhou Guanyu was the slowest in qualifying for the sixth race in a row.
The race
It was Ferrari’s first one-two finish in the United States since Indianapolis in 2006 – with Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa.
It was only Ferrari’s third double of the decade and sixth in the last 14 years.
Charles Leclerc won the week of his 27th birthday. This is his 8th success in F1 and his 40th podium.
As in Monza, he won starting from 4th place!
For the second year in a row in Austin, the winner came from outside the top three on the grid (Verstappen had won from sixth position in 2023).
Leclerc became the first driver to lead the first lap in Austin, starting further than the front row.
Carlos Sainz reached his first podium in 7 Grands Prix.
It was the first time that Verstappen had not won in Austin since 2019 (he had a string of victories in Grand Prix and Sprint races since then).
Verstappen finished 19.412 seconds behind the winner, his narrowest gap to victory since the summer break.
But the Red Bull driver remains without a victory (excluding sprints) in the last nine Grands Prix.
8 points: this is what now separates Red Bull from Ferrari in the constructors’ standings…
Oscar Piastri, even having finished 5th, remains the best scorer over the last nine Grands Prix with 160 points.
George Russell, starting from the pit lane, finished sixth, his original starting position before penalty.
Sergio Perez’s seventh place is his worst result in Austin since 2019.
Nico Hulkenberg’s eighth place gave Haas their best Grand Prix result on home soil.
Haas scored points for the fourth consecutive race, a first since mid-2018 season.
With a ninth place on his return to Red Bull, Liam Lawson equaled his best career result (Singapore 2023).
At Williams, Franco Colapinto finished tenth, picking up his second points in four Grand Prix starts.
Kevin Magnussen finished eleventh in the second Haas, the eighth time this year that the team has finished in this position in a Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton retired in the third round, even though he had always finished a race in the United States (1 GP in Indianapolis, 11 in Austin, 3 in Miami, 1 in Las Vegas).
It was the first time Mercedes had failed to finish an F1 race in Austin.
It was Hamilton’s shortest Grand Prix (two completed laps) since his first-corner retirement at Qatar 2023.
His crash triggered the first safety car outing since the Canadian Grand Prix 10 races ago.
Alexander Albon competed in his 100th F1 Grand Prix.
Ocon, at the very end of the race, set the fastest lap to take a point away from Williams and Colapinto. This is the first best lap of the Norman’s career.
Speaking of fastest lap, Lance Stroll is now the driver who has taken the most starts in F1 history without recording a fastest lap. The Canadian took part in 162 GPs without ever setting the fastest lap – Herbert held this record, with 161 starts.
