Max Verstappen won the 2021 United States Grand Prix for Red Bull-Honda ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Sergio Perez.
Fastest lap: Lewis Hamilton
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2021 United States Grand Prix
- Mercedes encouraged despite ‘toughest race for a long time’ in Austin
- For the sake of the title fight, F1 must get a grip on its track limits problem
- Pit stop problems costing Ferrari “quite a lot of points” – Sainz
- Sold-out crowd of 380,000 at COTA shows F1 can add third US race – Brawn
- While the pressure’s off I can “push myself” more – Russell
Sviat
24th October 2021, 21:44
The championship has officially ended. Red Bull is just faster. Winning the start and having a better strategy doesn’t do anything, you lose anyway.
Alpine are even more than hopeless. Kimi was fantastic, until he botched up. What a shame. But they wouldn’t get their point, I think. Vettel on a fresher rubber was fast enough.
Ferrari could beat McLaren with both cars, so that’s good.
petebaldwin (@)
24th October 2021, 21:49
How many times has that been said this year – “Championship over!”
Nah. I think the bumps meant Mercedes had to increase their ride hight a bit and that affected them a lot. This season will go down to the wire.
Another variable : one DNF and the situation looks completely different.
Tim (@tungdil12)
24th October 2021, 21:53
Yeah!
erikje
24th October 2021, 22:04
Another variable one blue flag almost fu@#€& the race.
Captain Pie (@captainpie)
24th October 2021, 22:12
I think more than 1 blue flag – Giovinazzi, Raikonnen, Tsunoda and Schumacher did more damage to Max’s race than any attack by Lewis at the end
Jere (@jerejj)
24th October 2021, 21:45
Red Bull’s strategy proved better.
Good battles with Alonso & Alfa Romeos further down the field.
DonSmee (@david-beau)
25th October 2021, 0:53
It was actually the slower strategy. Was an unoptimal time to pit. The undercut was there yes but in theory Lewis should have overtaken Max with ease, but the car just wasn’t fast enough. Never made it to DRS even on 8 laps newer tyres.
Red Andy (@red-andy)
25th October 2021, 7:16
It might have been the slower strategy @david-beau, but Red Bull clearly recognised that it was worth compromising the strategy for superior track position. Fine margins, but it paid off in the end.
Red Andy (@red-andy)
24th October 2021, 21:48
Breaching the Hamilton stronghold is an important psychological victory for Red Bull, in a season where mental fortitude is proving just as important as all-out pace when it comes to deciding the championship.
Tim (@tungdil12)
24th October 2021, 21:54
Great Race. Cant believe checo was without “the drink” for 50some laps.
Alex
24th October 2021, 21:56
What a race by Verstappen. He impresses me more and more. I don’t think Mercedes could fully utilise their pace advantage on the straights this race because of the bumps so will be interested to see what happens in the next race. Although I did read somewhere that the Merc was still comfortably faster on the straights still
Michael
25th October 2021, 0:42
Very good race. Verstappen and Hamilton were excellent out front as was Leclerc who kept pace with Perez and built a big lead with the chasing pack. Tsunoda had his best race in F1 leading Gasly and Bottas comfortably early on and finishing best of the rest of the rest. Vettel was the best and cleanest overtaker which seems weird but it confirms what the stats say… The rest of the midfield were entertaining but messy. There’s always a lot of overtaking at this track due to tyre wear and pitstops but gaps always seem to close up to slightly less than the width of a car.