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00:00Lando's got to get off the line and get to the inside and defend it.
00:13Max is already pointing slightly right.
00:16His intentions are clear.
00:1819 cars then on the grid and we wait for that green flag.
00:22There it is.
00:2356 laps to come here at the Circuit of the Americas.
00:28It's the US Grand Prix.
00:30It's lights out and away we go.
00:32Norris gets away slightly better.
00:34Max Verstappen's coming at him.
00:36And Carlos Sainz is ahead of Charles Leclerc.
00:38Down the inside though goes Max Verstappen.
00:40Lando Norris gets full spine.
00:42Through goes the Ferrari.
00:43It's Charles Leclerc from 4th to 1st at the first corner.
00:47Leclerc leads the US Grand Prix.
00:50From Verstappen, from Sainz, from Lando Norris,
00:53who's now battling just ahead of his teammate Oskar Piastri,
00:57who's going wheel-to-wheel with Pierre Gasly.
00:59Lando, you had all the right ideas,
01:01you just didn't fulfill it completely.
01:03You left at least a red bull size gap in there.
01:06Then the squabble at the top of the hill
01:09and Ferrari was, thank you, I'll have some of that.
01:12And there was a squabble in the midfield
01:13and it's Esteban Ocon who got turned around at Turn 1
01:17and he is now plum last in this race.
01:20We see there Yuki Tsunoda just ahead of Fernando Alonso
01:23and behind them Liam Lawson in the other RV,
01:26already getting past Branko Colopinso in the Williams.
01:30Hamilton 12th, Hamilton P12.
01:32He's had an excellent start,
01:34there was a right old kerfuffle at Turn 1
01:37and Alex Albon hit the Alpine,
01:39that's what sent Esteban Ocon around.
01:41It's Leclerc from Verstappen,
01:43here comes Carlos Sainz though,
01:45on Max Verstappen in these opening stages.
01:47Now Verstappen's got the inside line,
01:49switch back here from Sainz, can't quite get past.
01:53Verstappen surely has to give that place back,
01:55he was way, way, way off the track.
01:57He'll say, well so was Sainz and he pushed me out there.
02:00I thought Max might just ease the Ferrari through there
02:03so as not to risk Lando Norris getting in on the action.
02:07We'll see what race control say about that.
02:10What a first lap that has been
02:12and what a first lap from Charles Leclerc,
02:15whose most recent win was at Monza
02:17where he started fourth on the grid
02:19and where he leads after lap one from fourth on the grid.
02:22Over a second and a half to Max Verstappen.
02:25Sainz third, Norris fourth,
02:26Piastri, Gasly, Magnussen, Sonoda, Perez and Alonso
02:29the top ten.
02:30Hamilton, as you said Martin, up now into 12th,
02:32George Russell past Esteban Ocon who's running last
02:36and we're on board with Carlos Sainz
02:38who has started third, currently in third
02:40has Max Verstappen ahead of him.
02:43Good, Hamilton then say up to P12
02:46from that back of the grid slot.
02:48So that's worked beautifully,
02:49DRS, drag reduction system enabled.
02:52There are two of them around here,
02:54he can get the rear wing open,
02:55but at the moment Leclerc is more than well
02:58over a second ahead of Verstappen.
03:00Verstappen will have Sainz with his wing open.
03:03Now up to 20 kilometers an hour of extra pace
03:07down this back straight when you've got DRS
03:10and you can see the advantage that Carlos Sainz has
03:13as he's almost neck and neck with Max Verstappen
03:16going in to turn 12.
03:19This fight's coming back at you once again
03:21behind these two.
03:22Lando Norris is clear of his teammate, Oscar Piastri.
03:25Pierre Gasly is on Piastri's tail though.
03:28Sainz, what can he do with Max Verstappen this time?
03:30Takes a wider line to get a slick shot out of that corner
03:33and try and find and force away past the red bull
03:37Verstappen placing it perfectly.
03:39Yeah, Sainz needs to just keep it neat, tidy,
03:41don't take anything out of your tires
03:43because he'll get his chance.
03:45He gets one down the pit straight,
03:47might give him a run into turn one
03:49and failing that he's got a great chance again
03:51after turn 11 on this lap that they're just starting.
03:54He must keep his tires cool.
03:56Someone's had a bit of a moment in the final sector
04:00and it's Lewis Hamilton and he's off into the gravel
04:03and that is Lewis Hamilton out of the US Grand Prix.
04:06He has beached that Mercedes.
04:09That'll be a safety car.
04:10Same corner that his teammate crashed at yesterday, Martin.
04:14It'll either be a virtual or an actual,
04:16I think it'll have to be an actual safety car eventually
04:19to get that out of the gravel.
04:20They'll have to put people in a vehicle on there
04:23because he's beached and going absolutely...
04:25That's so unusual for Lewis Hamilton, isn't it?
04:27To make a mistake like that.
04:29But we saw Charles Leclerc having a massive lock-up
04:32up into turn one,
04:33just as we cut to Lewis Hamilton in the gravel track
04:38and that's concertina at the front up,
04:39but I'm pretty sure it'll concertina a lot more any time now
04:44unless by some miracle Hamilton's getting that out of the gravel track.
04:47It isn't.
04:48Now there's a safety car,
04:50just as Carlos Sainz was getting to the DRS activation zone.
04:54The safety car is called by race control
04:57and Lewis Hamilton getting out of the car
04:59and that's why the crowd are applauding
05:01because they want to see that he's okay.
05:03And now you gain 10 seconds by pitting under the safety car
05:07as we watch Kimi Antonelli,
05:08who'll be out there driving that car next year
05:12or the 2025 version of it in place of Lewis Hamilton.
05:16You gain 11 seconds by pitting under a safety car.
05:20But...
05:20So early in the race, isn't it?
05:22So early in the race.
05:23Would you want to give up track position?
05:25They'll be fiendishly trying to work that out on the pit wall.
05:28Yeah, I mean if you come in now,
05:30you're losing so many places as you rightly state.
05:33I'd be surprised if they did.
05:35I'd be surprised if they did come in, but...
05:38Here's the race start though
05:40and we'll look at it from lights out.
05:41Lando Norris did get away well,
05:44but Verstappen in the second phase came at him and...
05:47Lando had it covered, but he just didn't cover it enough.
05:50Too tentative?
05:53Just not aggressive enough.
05:54He really needed to close Max off
05:59and that then left them sort of scuffling amongst themselves
06:03and Leclerc, in particular, filled his boots.
06:06I'll tell you what, Piastri and Gasly came very, very close to contact,
06:10but there was contact with an Alpine.
06:12Alex Albon hitting Esteban Ocon and sending him spinning.
06:16Red Bull are getting ready for Max Verstappen to come in
06:20and he's being told to make his move and there it is.
06:24Into the pits then comes Max Verstappen.
06:26He lost six tenths to Lando Norris on the previous lap
06:29and Lando Norris carried on in the mid-1.39s on lap 25.
06:35Tyres change then for Max Verstappen.
06:37On go the hard compound tyres
06:39as he makes his way at 80 kilometers an hour
06:41towards the pit lane exit.
06:42Carlos Sainz is accelerating up to about 200 miles an hour
06:47down the main straight.
06:48Here comes Carlos Sainz.
06:49He pitted earlier than Max Verstappen
06:52and to the cheers of the fans up at turn 1
06:55goes into the first corner ahead of Max Verstappen
06:59in what is a net second place in this race.
07:02It is. His tyres are four laps older.
07:05Does that matter on the hard compound?
07:07We're about to find out.
07:09So the undercut from Ferrari, who are the ones with pace here,
07:13has left Carlos Sainz ahead of Max Verstappen.
07:17Here's Ferrari power.
07:18Kevin Magnussen on the alpine of Esteban Ocon
07:22and then a more regulation overtake down at turn 12.
07:27Magnussen up to 12th.
07:30Free air for Lando Norris here.
07:31How much longer can he carry on at this pace?
07:33His pace is good.
07:36A 1.39.3 on the last lap for Carlos Sainz.
07:39He's just switched on to the hard tyres.
07:41Some new hard tyres.
07:42Norris to the 1.39.6.
07:44These have been very good laps.
07:45Yeah, so McLaren might be able to recover this day
07:48with some longevity
07:50and as Leclerc pits from the lead.
07:53So I think McLaren, aided by a few laps under the safety car,
07:57are going to be doing a one-stop strategy here,
08:00which is going to be really interesting.
08:02They haven't got the pace to do a two-stopper
08:04like some of the others and get past them
08:06so they're going to try and do it with a strategy.
08:08Charles Leclerc, hard tyres go on for our race leader.
08:11He is going to come out behind both of the McLarens
08:15and ahead of his teammate Carlos Sainz.
08:17But pitting on lap 27,
08:19that's a one-stopper anyway onto hard tyres, is it not?
08:21Well, it can be.
08:23If you go to lap 26 and then pit beyond that,
08:26you are looking at a one-stop strategy,
08:29was the information that we were given before this race.
08:32Lando Norris now leads it.
08:34His teammate, Oscar Piastri, is second
08:36because neither of the McLarens have pitted yet.
08:39Charles Leclerc is third in his three cars,
08:41all in a bit of a huddle together.
08:43On the inside, Lance Stroll.
08:44On the outside is Alex Albon.
08:46Behind these comes Pierre Gasly
08:48and Alex Albon gets ahead of Lance Stroll, I should say,
08:55in the Aston Martin.
08:56Gasly is just tucked up behind these lot
08:58and since his pit stop has just come out into a heap of trouble.
09:03This track really promotes great side-by-side Formula 1 racing,
09:07doesn't it?
09:09And he really needs a super exit here, does Lando Norris.
09:13And that looks as close as ever, doesn't it?
09:15So is that good exit coming this time around?
09:17And it was Max who got a little bit of wheel spin on the rear.
09:20Now, this is a much better chance.
09:22Right, here he comes then.
09:23He's been threatening this for a few laps now.
09:26Lando Norris trying to get past Max Verstappen.
09:28They're dicing which way and the other.
09:30Down the main straight and back straight.
09:32Down on the inside goes Verstappen.
09:34He forces Lando Norris wide off the track.
09:36Norris comes back onto the track ahead of the Red Bull.
09:40Norris really had to take avoiding action
09:42from what I can see long distance.
09:44We'll watch that.
09:45Of course, the stewards will be looking at that.
09:47Max will be on the telephone because that was a move.
09:51Oh, he took the outside of the track.
09:54He did, he had nowhere else to go.
09:56But is that clever play by Verstappen
09:58or is that Norris going extra wide to say,
10:01well, I had to do it?
10:03Yeah, well, who knows?
10:04Let's see what they do.
10:05It's like, did he force him off the track?
10:07There's about a five-second penalty for that.
10:09But let's see what the stewards say.
10:11They need to say it quickly.
10:13I think he was ahead of the defects.
10:15Let me know if you think otherwise.
10:17Oh, and while that's...
10:18We think he were ahead at apex.
10:20While that message is being relayed,
10:22really, really late reactions from Lando Norris
10:25to cut Max Verstappen off into turn one.
10:28I want to see them down the back straight
10:30before they got together with the overtakes
10:33because it looked to me as if
10:36there were a lot of movement going on
10:38down the back straight.
10:39But now he's got to get off down the road.
10:43It is a good move back.
10:45And that's the messages that you would expect
10:47at this particular moment in time.
10:50And the teams, I'm sure, are talking to race control
10:53and the race director
10:54as they head towards the back straight.
10:57At the end of it, this was the move.
11:00He went deep, Verstappen.
11:03Did Lando Norris deserve a little bit more room?
11:06Should he have more room?
11:07He's being told you were ahead at the apex.
11:08Now, exactly where you can decide the apex is,
11:11is a matter of interpretation
11:13on a longish corner like that.
11:15But...
11:17And also, it's a very late move from Lando
11:19defending up into turn one.
11:21It was.
11:21Very, very late move.
11:22That's been noted, Martin.
11:24Yeah.
11:24I want to see...
11:25So, what is...
11:26Best chance now is to get height.
11:28We are on it, Max.
11:29We know.
11:29And we've also seen the moving underbrake.
11:31Yeah.
11:33So, their best chance now is to hightail it down the road
11:36and get a five-second penalty at the end, isn't it?
11:39Or if it's less, it's a ten-second penalty.
11:42Race leader, Charles Leclerc, into turn one.
11:45He's got six seconds between himself
11:47and Carlos Sainz's teammate.
11:49That's not where the action has been.
11:50Ferrari have absolutely dominated here.
11:53The stewards are looking at Lando Norris
11:55for leaving the track and gaining an advantage.
11:57Going off the track, getting ahead.
11:59Of Max Verstappen.
12:00What he needs to do, Norris,
12:02is to try and pull out a five-second gap
12:04and make that penalty irrelevant.
12:05But if he gets a ten-second penalty...
12:08That's a good point.
12:09...then he will fall behind Piastri as well.
12:11So, McLaren might even have to think about
12:13dropping Piastri back.
12:15Meanwhile, George Russell and Sergio Perez
12:18really going for it.
12:19That battle's been brewing for a while too.
12:21George Russell, who started from the pit lane.
12:24Sergio Perez, who started ninth in this race.
12:28And they're scrapping now to finish sixth
12:31at the chequered flag.
12:33The stewards are looking at it, Max.
12:36So, obviously, Max has been continuing the discussion
12:39on the Red Bull Team Radio.
12:41And yes, the stewards are looking at it.
12:42And I hope we get a decision one way or the other
12:45between now and the end of the race.
12:46Right, let us see, once again,
12:48on board with Lando Norris here.
12:51Verstappen almost makes a second move
12:54towards the braking zone.
12:55He did, but I don't think Lando
12:57needed to move too much.
12:58But I think he'll take a penalty for that.
13:02I think he'll be told to give that place back.
13:04Yeah, he wasn't ahead, was he?
13:07Let's see.
13:08They'll look at it from all sorts of different angles
13:10and get the brake and the throttle traces,
13:13steering traces.
13:16But my gut feeling is he'll have to get that back.
13:19Yeah, my gut feeling is he won't give that back.
13:21And they'll argue about it in the stewards' room afterwards.
13:24But here comes George Russell again.
13:26My opinion is, you were ahead at apex,
13:28both cars went off track.
13:30Yeah, he also went off, so it was clear.
13:36Let's see what happens here.
13:37Red Bull up against Mercedes this time around.
13:39Perez and George Russell.
13:42So Norris has had two more track limits,
13:45so he'll be getting the black and white flag
13:46next time as well.
13:47He's got to keep it in play as Lando Norris.
13:51Verstappen still has the fastest lap of the Grand Prix.
13:54Just pitted again.
13:56He did, he put the soft tyre on to take that fastest lap.
14:02Towards the main straight once again.
14:06And Perez ahead of George Russell.
14:08Superb.
14:10Also Max Lando has exceeded his track limits,
14:13expecting a penalty for that alone.
14:16So flat out.
14:18Yeah, I haven't got the full track limit data here,
14:23but has Lando Norris gone four times?
14:25I think it's his fourth time, yeah.
14:27So he's done it on two consecutive laps.
14:29No time to give him the black and white flag.
14:31I think he might take a penalty for that.
14:33He's going to end up behind Piastri at this rate,
14:37and in P5.
14:40Let's have a little look on that one.
14:42So George Russell, who's already picked up
14:46a five-second penalty himself in this race
14:49for forcing Valtteri Bottas off the track.
14:52It might be a bit more cautious this time around,
14:55as they have one and a half laps to go,
14:57and Charles Leclerc is starting his final lap of this race.
15:01Here comes George Russell.
15:02Perez moves over to the left to cover him off.
15:04Russell looks to be ahead, going into the braking zone he is.
15:07Perez tries to switch it round and get a better exit out of Turn 12,
15:11but George Russell is away.
15:13He's up in a sixth place.
15:14Fabulous drive from George Russell here.
15:17And while we're talking fabulous drives,
15:19this man, we've barely seen him for the second half of the race.
15:22What a race this has been for Charles Leclerc.
15:25And I know, so we've had our third strike track limits,
15:27which I know you'll know,
15:28so no more track limits.
15:30No more.
15:31I know it looks on the screen, Martin, that he's had more,
15:33but if you go off the track at the final corner,
15:37you get a lap deleted for that lap,
15:40and then for the next lap as well.
15:41It's just the way the system's set up,
15:43and I think that might have confused Red Bull too.
15:45Yeah, it could be that,
15:45because he looked like he was showing four times.
15:47He might well be right there.
15:48The trouble is they disappear off our screen,
15:50so we've got to try and remember them all.
15:52And into our screen, the big screen,
15:55comes Charles Leclerc.
15:56Lando Norris has got a five-second penalty
15:59for leaving the track and gaining an advantage
16:01in his battle with Max Verstappen.
16:03Can he make up another second and a half
16:05to make that penalty irrelevant
16:07between now and the end of the race?
16:09What is irrelevant is that,
16:10in terms of the battle for the lead,
16:11is that they're scrapping for third and fourth.
16:13Charles Leclerc started fourth in this race.
16:16It's been his birthday week here in Texas.
16:20He's the lone star
16:21at the Circuit of the Americas this afternoon.
16:24Ferrari win!
16:25Charles Leclerc wins the US Grand Prix!
16:28What a performance from the Scuderia,
16:31who, for the first time since 2006,
16:34take a one-two finish at the US Grand Prix.
16:37Carlos Sainz comes home for second place,
16:40and all eyes now are Max Verstappen and Lando Norris.
16:44Norris crosses the line,
16:47and he was, I think, four seconds ahead
16:49of Max Verstappen when it happened.
16:51So the places are reversed.
16:53Verstappen increases his championship lead over Norris.
16:56I feel sorry for Leclerc and Ferrari
16:58because we barely noticed them or talked about them,
17:00but they're a brilliant result.
17:03And that's my boy, another win.
17:06Let's go!
17:07Once again, once again, once again.
17:13Max Verstappen finished 19 seconds behind the winner.
17:16That's actually the best he's done
17:17since before the summer break,
17:19so Rebel might be a bit happier with that.
17:22Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc
17:24giving Ferrari a one-two here in Texas.