Race Results 2018 US F1 Grand Prix

2018 US F1 GP podium: 1. Raikkonen, 2. Verstappen, 3. Hamilton

Event: US F1 Grand Prix
Track: Circuit of The Americas

Weather:  Dry  20.9ºC
Tarmac: Dry 29.2ºC
Wind speed: 6.8 km/h
Humidity: 40.7%

Kimi Raikkonen won the 2018 US F1 GP today. He won the 2018 US Formula 1 Grand Prix for the first time in his career. It was his 21st formula 1 race win, his 1st win of the 2018 season and the 235th F1 victory for Ferrari.

The start of the US F1 Grand Prix was clean. Kimi Raikkonen who started on Ultrasoft tyres had more grip then Lewis Hamilton on the Supersoft tyres and passed the championship leader in turn 1 for the lead.

Sebastian Vettel started on P4 and also had a good start and attacked 3rd place driver Daniel Ricciardo in lap 1. He overtook the Australian driver on the straight, but Vettel out-braked himself In turn 12 and he Vettel touched Ricciardo's Red Bull with his Ferrari in turn 13 and spun his car. He came back on P13 and had to fight his was back to the front.

In lap 9 Ricciardo retired his Red Bull in turn 12 and caused a virtual safety car in which Hamilton did his pitstop for Soft tyres.

In lap 22 Raikkonen pitted for Soft tyres and gave Hamilton the lead of the race. Bottas and Verstappen also pitted a lap later and Verstappen overtook Bottas for P3 with an undercut.

In lap 38 Hamilton had to pit for new Soft tyres because his tyres had huge blisters. The end of the race was the most exciting since a long time. In the penultimate lap we saw a great fight between Hamilton and Verstappen.

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F1 Classification 2018 US GP

Pos	#	Driver	Constructor	Car & Engine	Grid	Laps	Led	Time	Pts
1	7	KimiRäikkönen	Ferrari	Ferrari SF71-HFerrari 062 EVO	2	56	39	1:34:18.643	25
2	33	MaxVerstappen	Red Bull	Red Bull RB14Renault R.E.18	18	56		1:34:19.924+1.281s	18
3	44	LewisHamilton	Mercedes	Mercedes W09Mercedes M09 EQ Power+	1	56	17	1:34:20.985+2.342s	15
4	5	SebastianVettel	Ferrari	Ferrari SF71-HFerrari 062 EVO	5	56		1:34:36.865+18.222s	12
5	77	ValtteriBottas	Mercedes	Mercedes W09Mercedes M09 EQ Power+	3	56		1:34:43.387+24.744s	10
6	27	NicoHülkenberg	Renault	Renault Sport R.S.18Renault R.E.18	7	56		1:35:45.853+1:27.210	8
7	55	CarlosSainz	Renault	Renault Sport R.S.18Renault R.E.18	11	56		1:35:53.637+1:34.994	6
8	11	SergioPérez	Racing Point	Force India VJM11Mercedes M09 EQ Power+	10	56		1:35:59.723+1:41.080	4
9	28	BrendonHartley	Toro Rosso	Toro Rosso STR13Honda RA618H	20	55		1:34:49.995+31.352s	2
10	9	MarcusEricsson	Sauber	Sauber C37Ferrari 062 EVO	16	55		1:34:51.284+32.641s	1
11	2	StoffelVandoorne	McLaren	McLaren MCL33Renault R.E.18	17	55		1:34:52.667+34.024s
12	10	PierreGasly	Toro Rosso	Toro Rosso STR13Honda RA618H	19	55		1:35:15.821+57.178s
13	35	SergeySirotkin	Williams	Williams FW41 Mercedes M09 EQ Power+	14	55		1:35:28.139+1:09.496
14	18	LanceStroll	Williams	Williams FW41 Mercedes M09 EQ Power+	15	54		1:34:40.494+21.851s
DNF	16	CharlesLeclerc	Sauber	Sauber C37Ferrari 062 EVO	9	31		Collision damage
DNF	3	DanielRicciardo	Red Bull	Red Bull RB14Renault R.E.18	4	8		Battery
DNF	8	RomainGrosjean	Haas	Haas VF-18Ferrari 062 EVO	8	2		Collision damage
DNF	14	FernandoAlonso	McLaren	McLaren MCL33Renault R.E.18	13	1		Collision damage
DSQ	31	EstebanOcon	Racing Point	Force India VJM11Mercedes M09 EQ Power+	6	56		Fuel flow
DSQ	20	KevinMagnussen	Haas	Haas VF-18Ferrari 062 EVO	12	56		Fuel consumption

Notes:

• Car 31 - Esteban Ocon (Force India) is disqualified for exceeding the fuel mass flow during lap 1.
• Car 20 - Kevin Magnussen (Haas) is disqualified for consuming more than 105kg of fuel during the race.

Fastest lap: 1:37.392 min by Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) on lap 40 @203.782 km/h
Highest speed: 340.1 km/h by Sergio Pérez (Force India)

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