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

P	No	Driver	Team	Time	Laps	Grid	Pts
1	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	01:34:18.643	56	2	25
2	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	01:34:19.924	56	18	18
3	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	01:34:20.985	56	1	15
4	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	01:34:36.865	56	5	12
5	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	01:34:43.387	56	3	10
6	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Renault	01:35:45.853	56	7	8
7	55	Carlos Sainz	Renault	01:35:53.637	56	11	6
8	11	Sergio Pérez	Racing Point	01:35:59.723	56	10	4
9	28	Brendon Hartley	Toro Rosso	01:34:49.995	55	20	2
10	9	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	01:34:51.284	55	16	1
11	2	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	01:34:52.667	55	17	0
12	10	Pierre Gasly	Toro Rosso	01:35:15.821	55	19	0
13	35	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	01:35:28.139	55	14	0
14	18	Lance Stroll	Williams	01:34:40.494	54	15	0
DNF	16	Charles Leclerc	Sauber	Collision damage	31	9	0
DNF	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	Battery	8	4	0
DNF	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas	Collision damage	2	8	0
DNF	14	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	Collision damage	1	13	0
DSQ	31	Esteban Ocon	Racing Point	Fuel flow	56	6	0
DSQ	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	Fuel consumption	56	12	0

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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