00:00Five lights are on, it's lights out, away we go, Hamilton gets away well, and he's getting towards Max Verstappen
00:06now,
00:07tries to cover him off and pushes him to the left-hand side, Perez is in acres of space as
00:11Hamilton on the inside pushes Max Verstappen wide,
00:14can Perez fight back? No, he can't, Hamilton is just ahead of Verstappen, Perez challenging his teammate around turn two,
00:20Hamilton leads from Verstappen, then comes Sergio Perez and then the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc, Lewis Hamilton got the dream
00:27start that he wanted,
00:28three times, he's won here from second in the past, he has made a lightning start and leads the race
00:33as Carlos Sainz and Daniel Ricciardo
00:35tangle the Ferrari and the McLaren, almost touching wheels, Orlando Norris just behind, yeah, Sainz on the soft times with
00:41a decent start,
00:42but the initial launch, the reaction time, Hamilton was faster away and Verstappen, try as he might, couldn't do anything
00:49about it,
00:50Hamilton then leads the US Grand Prix, he's stretching away from Max Verstappen, Perez third, then comes Leclerc and behind
00:57him,
00:57Carlos Sainz under pressure from Daniel Ricciardo, trying to get into the slipstream, but he touched the back of the
01:02Ferrari and had to just drop back a bit,
01:04there goes Ricciardo, here comes Lando Norris down the inside, it's Ferrari and McLaren, what a battle, Norris on the
01:10inside,
01:11don't he got the place, Carlos Sainz is pushed wide and still somehow stays ahead of his former teammate,
01:18Ricciardo nips on the inside now, Lando Norris to get that place back and it's all happening on lap one
01:22here.
01:23You'd think it was the last lap of the Grand Prix, the way they're going at it, but they do
01:26know these are the easiest opportunities to make up places
01:29and it's a bitter battle between McLaren and Ferrari and look at that, what a lovely overtake through 16, 17
01:37and 18 from Daniel Ricciardo.
01:39The two Canadians in what is arguably a home race for them.
01:43Sandwich by the f***ing past man, he just sent it in front with that bitch.
01:48Coming through turn two, on board with Esteban Ocon, he's got the Alfa Tauri of Gasly in front of him,
01:56oh and it just got clipped there by a very fast starting Alfa Romeo, not just Kimi Räikköner but Antonio
02:02Giovinazzi as well,
02:03they both started well, the two Alphas up to 11th and 12th and necessitating a front wing change for the
02:09Alpine team.
02:10Max Verstappen is coming in then for the undercut on Mercedes, tyres getting hot, he's decided he doesn't want those
02:18hot tyres for any longer
02:20so let's put a set of hards on the car and away we go and that was a very nice
02:24stop, no problems, very smooth for Verstappen.
02:27Hard tyres go on at 4, Hamilton is stationary time, 2.8 seconds.
02:33Max Verstappen now ahead of Hamilton.
02:37Fernando Alonso and Kimi Räikkönen as they go wheel to wheel and Räikkönen gets pushed wide
02:42and they almost touch and come a cropper at turn one.
02:46Räikkönen and Alonso separated by half a millimetre it seemed going through there before Alonso had to back out.
02:53We loved this, we loved watching it, they did touch.
02:56Yeah, they can't penalise him for that.
02:59Bottas trying to get past Yuki Tsunoda, Tsunoda goes deep, it's the old switcheroo then from Valencia.
03:05Valtteri Bottas, he allows Tsunoda to go deep and says thank you, I'll just nip it on the inside and
03:10I'll take that eighth place from you.
03:13Fernando Alonso on Antonio Giovinazzi, under braking, goes way too deep Fernando, it was a bit optimistic
03:19but you know what, he leaves the track, comes back on the track and still might find himself ahead of
03:24that Alfa Romeo and he does.
03:26Fernando Alonso up into 11th, did he leave the track and gain an advantage or was all fair in that
03:31particular battle?
03:32Come on guys, you're the queen!
03:34This is how Fernando Alonso gave that place back to Antonio Giovinazzi, I've never seen him go that slowly.
03:41Here we go again Karun, it's Alonso Giovinazzi but two and this time it's Antonio Giovinazzi that is forced wide
03:49and as he comes back on the track
03:51he gives a little shove towards the Alpine and Alonso biding his time, gets on the power early, goes a
03:57little shove towards Giovinazzi.
03:59Does he stay in that 11th place? Yes, the Alfa Romeo does, fighting for his Formula One future, the Italian
04:04driver up against Fernando Alonso who'll definitely be back next season
04:08and he'll definitely start the next lap behind Giovinazzi once again.
04:12Tony, you have to give the position to Alonso.
04:14He pushed me out!
04:16Give position back now, no discussion, give position back.
04:20Vettel on the medium tyre, George Russell on the hard compound tyre, Vettel absolutely chomping at the bit to get
04:27past George Russell here and round the outside.
04:29Has he made that move stick? He has, you know. Fantastic stuff by Sebastian Vettel as they head left-handed
04:35into turn 19, the Aston Martins ahead.
04:3926 laps to go in this race, Verstappen makes his second pit stop.
04:43It's kind of okay, wasn't it?
04:46Lewis Hamilton is coming into the pit, so it was target plus, what, another 8, 2.4 seconds.
04:53Four tenths quicker than Verstappen and Red Bull.
04:58Carlos Sainz trying to go the long way round on the outside.
05:02And that's where they touched.
05:05I got a bit dirty.
05:06I did that on purpose, guys.
05:09Understood? Ready for things?
05:10I don't know, it didn't look too blatant to me.
05:14Hamilton's going to be on getting DRS within three laps.
05:19He's going to be getting the rear wing open and cruising up to the back of this Red Bull,
05:24which I'd imagine he'll be treating again like the hind legs of a donkey.
05:30There goes Sebastian Vettel, finally clearing Antonio Giovinazzi.
05:35He's now chasing after Giovinazzi's teammate Kimi Raikkonen.
05:39Somebody is off in the first sector.
05:41It's Kimi Raikkonen and that has allowed Sebastian Vettel to now move up into the points.
05:46So Vettel's charge wasn't in vain, he's got into the points.
05:49Canis Haska please go out of the way, get on to Michael.
05:52Yeah, we are on it.
05:54Telling the moves.
05:55Costing him because he's now in dirtier as well effectively.
05:58And yeah, Mick's not getting out of the way.
06:00He should be getting out of the way, he does now.
06:02Here we go then, we're heading towards the last lap.
06:05Three and a half miles to go here at the Circuit of the Americas.
06:09Hamilton has now got DRS, but crucially, so was Verstappen, because he was lapping Mick Schumacher.
06:16And that gives him the chance to lap with the DRS.
06:20Verstappen is keeping his cool, he's keeping his calm and composure, and he is keeping the lead as well.
06:26His first sector, a tenth up on Lewis Hamilton, it's taken him beyond that DRS threat.
06:30While that's been happening, Valtteri Bottas has finally got past Carlos Sainz.
06:35Max Verstappen is going to lead and double his advantage in the World Championship for the first time on US
06:42soil.
06:43Max Verstappen wins the US Grand Prix.
06:46Lewis Hamilton has to settle for second.
06:49The charge got close, but not quite close enough.
06:53The fireworks on track are replaced by fireworks shooting into the air.
06:58Verstappen wins at Cota.
07:00What a Grand Prix that was.
07:02Here, we've locked horns once again.
07:05And in the land of the Longhorn, it's the bull that's come out on top this afternoon.
07:10See y'all, what a day.
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