2024 United States Grand Prix - COTA, Oct 18-20 Sportsbook Motor Sport

[Tom]

Friday 18
Practice 18.30 - 19.30.
Sprint Qualification 21.30 - 22.30

Saturday 19
Sprint Race 18.00 - 19.00
Qualification 22.00 - 23.00

Sunday 20
Race 20:00

 

[Franco Pinion]

Max Verstappen will start on pole position for the 100km sprint race with the Mercedes of George Russell alongside him.

Charles Leclerc puts his Ferrari third and Lando Norris, Verstappen's title rival, will line up in fourth spot.

 

[Franco Pinion]

Max Verstappen wins his fourth sprint race of the 2024 season.

Carlos Sainz finishes second after starting in fifth thanks to some "awesome moves", said his engineer and Lando Norris finishes third, just ahead of Charles Leclerc.

It means Verstappen has increased his championship lead by 2 points and now has a 54-point lead over Norris.

Norris needs to get on top of pressure moments if he ever wants to be WDC…..and that will not be this year.

 

[Franco Pinion]

Full results from qualifying for the United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas.

Some fortune for Norris but was a phenomenal first lap though, 6 tenths over his teammate. He is an incredible qualifier.

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Lando Norris	McLaren	1:33.616s	1:32.851s	1:32.330s
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1:33.046s	1:32.584s	1:32.361s
3	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	1:33.556s	1:32.836s	1:32.652s
4	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1:33.241s	1:32.962s	1:32.740s
5	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	1:33.864s	1:33.057s	1:32.950s
6	George Russell	Mercedes	1:33.536s	1:33.142s	1:32.974s
7	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	1:33.550s	1:33.162s	1:33.018s
8	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	1:33.973s	1:33.429s	1:33.309s
9	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	1:33.564s	1:33.474s	1:33.481s
10	Sergio Pérez	Red Bull	1:33.611s	1:33.020s
11	Yuki Tsunoda	RB	1:33.795s	1:33.506s
12	Nico Hülkenberg	Haas	1:33.601s	1:33.544s
13	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	1:33.986s	1:33.597s
14	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	1:34.033s	1:33.759s
15	Liam Lawson	RB	1:33.339s
16	Alexander Albon	Williams	1:34.051s
17	Franco Colapinto	Williams	1:34.062s
18	Valtteri Bottas	Sauber	1:34.152s
19	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:34.154s
20	Zhou Guanyu	Sauber	1:34.228s

 

[Son Of Jack]

Only once in the last 6 years has the pole sitter here led the first corner.

 

[Son Of Jack]

Leclerc leads after the first corner!!!

Verstappen 2nd, Sainz 3rd.

Norris down to 4th.

Lewis Hamilton up to 12th.

 

[Son Of Jack]

And Lewis bins it, just about sums up his weekend!

 

[Franco Pinion]

Safety car to the Hamilton incident.

 

[Franco Pinion]

This is such a great racing track, one of the best in the calendar.

 

[Son Of Jack]

Norris getting left behind a bit. Over 2 seconds behind Sainz.

Leclerc out of DRS.

The Ferraris are flying.