Max Verstappen officially made up 12 positions during the United States Grand Prix, though the lap chart tells a slightly different story.
The split between one and two-stop strategies meant we saw more late-race exchanges of position than usual. Sebastian Vettel recovered second by passing Valtteri Bottas, after which team mate Kimi Raikkonen let him through.
Further back Lance Stroll took Stoffel Vandoorne on the last lap and even newcomer Brendon Hartley made up a place, overtaking Marcus Ericsson’s Sauber.
2017 United States Grand Prix lap chart
The positions of each driver on every lap. Click name to highlight, right-click to reset. Toggle drivers using controls below:
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Position change
| Driver | Start position | Lap one position change | Race position change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis Hamilton | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| Valtteri Bottas | 3 | 0 | -2 |
| Daniel Ricciardo | 4 | 0 | |
| Max Verstappen | 16 | 3 | 12 |
| Sebastian Vettel | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Kimi Raikkonen | 5 | -1 | 2 |
| Sergio Perez | 9 | -1 | 1 |
| Esteban Ocon | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Felipe Massa | 10 | 1 | 1 |
| Lance Stroll | 15 | 0 | 4 |
| Fernando Alonso | 8 | 1 | |
| Stoffel Vandoorne | 20 | 3 | 8 |
| Daniil Kvyat | 11 | 0 | 1 |
| Brendon Hartley | 19 | -1 | 6 |
| Romain Grosjean | 12 | 0 | -2 |
| Kevin Magnussen | 17 | -1 | 1 |
| Nico Hulkenberg | 18 | 2 | |
| Carlos Sainz Jnr | 7 | -1 | 0 |
| Marcus Ericsson | 13 | -1 | -2 |
| Pascal Wehrlein | 14 | -5 |
2017 United States Grand Prix race chart
The gaps between each driver on every lap compared to the leader’s average lap time. Very large gaps omitted. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan and right-click to reset. Toggle drivers using controls below:
2017 United States Grand Prix
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Egonovi
23rd October 2017, 14:49
Interestingly Raikkonen was already more than 4sec behind Verstappen at the finish line.
What would Connelly/Salo have done if it was over 5secs?
Sumedh
23rd October 2017, 16:23
Haha, we will never find out I guess :)
I don’t understand why Kimi and Bottas’ pace drops so much compared to Lewis after kimi’s overtake is complete. Any particular reason?
Markku Hänninen (@hmmh)
23rd October 2017, 17:07
In the Finnish interview Kimi said that he had to do lots of fuel saving during the last laps. His tires were ok.
Vincent (@vinnivinni)
23rd October 2017, 19:28
Too bad Max didn’t start in row 2 or 3, it seems like he had quite the pace to challenge Hamilton there.
Copersucar
23rd October 2017, 21:02
The chart makes it crystal -clear what everybody knows already. There is a huge gap between the three top teams and the rest