2013 United States Grand Prix

2013 United States Grand Prix
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Layout of the Circuit of the Americas
Race details [1]
Date	17 November 2013 (2013-11-17)
Official name	2013 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix
Location	Circuit of the Americas Travis County, Austin, Texas
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	5.513 km (3.426 miles)
Distance	56 laps, 308.405 km (191.634 miles)
Weather	Partly cloudy, warm Temperatures reaching up to 89.1 °F (31.7 °C); wind speeds approaching speeds of 11.1 miles per hour (17.9 km/h) [2]
Attendance	250,324 (Weekend) [3] 113,162 (Race Day) [4]
Pole position
Driver	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault
Time	1:36.338
Fastest lap
Driver	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault
Time	1:39.856 on lap 54
Podium
First	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault
Second	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault
Third	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault
Lap leaders

The 2013 United States Grand Prix is a Formula One motor race that was held at the Circuit of the Americas on 17 November 2013. The race was the eighteenth and penultimate round of the 2013 season, and marks the second running of the United States Grand Prix in Austin. The race was won by Red Bull-Renault's Sebastian Vettel, for his eighth consecutive win, a new F1 record for consecutive wins within a single season. ^{[5] [6]}

This would be Red Bull's last win at the Circuit of the Americas until the 2021 United States Grand Prix.

Report

Background

Driver changes

Kimi Räikkönen announced a week before the Grand Prix that he would be missing the final two races of 2013, in order to have back surgery. ^[7] He had wanted to delay the operation until the off-season, but suffered increasing discomfort over the previous races. Räikkönen's decision meant that the previous race was his last race competing for Lotus, having agreed to join Ferrari for the 2014 season. His place was taken by Heikki Kovalainen, who signed a two-race deal with the team. ^[8]

Tyres

Like the previous United States Grand Prix, tyre supplier Pirelli will bring its orange-banded hard compound tyre as the harder "prime" tyre and the white-banded medium compound tyre as the softer "option" tyre.

Free practice

Jenson Button was given a three-place grid penalty for the race, after overtaking under red flags during the opening practice session. ^[9] Charles Pic was given a five-place penalty for the race after Caterham changed the gearbox in his car. ^[10]

Qualifying

Kovalainen, who replaced Räikkönen at Lotus, took eighth in qualifying

Esteban Gutiérrez and Max Chilton were given penalties for impeding other drivers in the first qualifying session. Gutiérrez, who blocked Pastor Maldonado was handed a ten-place grid penalty; Chilton had served a drive-through penalty within the first five laps of the race after he impeded both Maldonado and Adrian Sutil. ^[11]

Race

At the start, Sebastian Vettel led away but soon after the safety car was deployed after Pastor Maldonado and Adrian Sutil collided, sending the latter into the barriers. At the restart on lap 5, Vettel quickly built up his lead and was never challenged en route to his 8th consecutive victory, taking the fastest lap with two laps remaining. Behind him Lotus driver Romain Grosjean held off Vettel's teammate, Mark Webber, for 2nd. ^[12]

Post-race

Jean-Éric Vergne was given a 20-second penalty for a collision with Esteban Gutiérrez on the final lap of the race. He moved down from 12th to 16th as a result. ^[13]

Classification

Qualifying

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Q1	Q2	Q3	Grid
1	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1:38.516	1:37.065	1:36.338	1
2	2	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1:38.161	1:37.312	1:36.441	2
3	8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1:38.676	1:37.523	1:37.155	3
4	11	Nico Hülkenberg	Sauber-Ferrari	1:38.339	1:37.828	1:37.296	4
5	10	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:37.959	1:37.854	1:37.345	5
6	3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:38.929	1:37.368	1:37.376	6
7	6	Sergio Pérez	McLaren-Mercedes	1:38.367	1:38.040	1:37.452	7
8	7	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	1:38.375	1:38.078	1:37.715	8
9	17	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Renault	1:37.821	1:37.439	1:37.836	9
10	12	Esteban Gutiérrez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:38.082	1:38.031	1:38.034	20 1
11	19	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:38.882	1:38.131		10
12	14	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1:38.894	1:38.139		11
13	5	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:38.588	1:38.217		15 2
14	9	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:38.743	1:38.364		12
15	4	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:39.094	1:38.592		13
16	18	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:38.880	1:38.696		14
17	15	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:39.250			16
18	16	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1:39.351			17
19	21	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham-Renault	1:40.491			18
20	22	Jules Bianchi	Marussia-Cosworth	1:40.528			19
21	20	Charles Pic	Caterham-Renault	1:40.596			22 3
22	23	Max Chilton	Marussia-Cosworth	1:41.401			21
107% time: 1:44.668
Source: [14]

Notes:

^1  – Esteban Gutiérrez qualified 10th, but was given a ten-place grid penalty for the race after blocking Pastor Maldonado during qualifying. ^[11]

^2  – Jenson Button qualified 13th, but was given a three-place grid penalty for the race, after overtaking under red flags during the opening practice session. ^[9]

^3  – Charles Pic qualified 21st, but was given a five-place penalty for the race after a gearbox change. ^[10]

Race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	56	1:39:17.148	1	25
2	8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	56	+ 6.284	3	18
3	2	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	56	+ 8.396	2	15
4	10	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	56	+ 27.358	5	12
5	3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	56	+ 29.592	6	10
6	11	Nico Hülkenberg	Sauber-Ferrari	56	+ 30.400	4	8
7	6	Sergio Pérez	McLaren-Mercedes	56	+ 46.692	7	6
8	17	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Renault	56	+ 54.509	9	4
9	9	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	56	+ 59.141	12	2
10	5	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	56	+ 1:17.278	15	1
11	19	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	56	+ 1:21.004	10
12	4	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	56	+ 1:26.914	13
13	12	Esteban Gutiérrez	Sauber-Ferrari	56	+ 1:31.707	20
14	7	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	56	+ 1:35.063	8
15	14	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	56	+ 1:36.853	11
16	18	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	56	+ 1:44.574 1	14
17	16	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	55	+ 1 Lap	17
18	22	Jules Bianchi	Marussia-Cosworth	55	+ 1 Lap	19
19	21	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham-Renault	55	+ 1 Lap	18
20	20	Charles Pic	Caterham-Renault	55	+ 1 Lap	22
21	23	Max Chilton	Marussia-Cosworth	54	+ 2 Laps	21
Ret	15	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	0	Collision	16
Source: [15]

Notes:
^1  – Jean-Éric Vergne was penalised 20 seconds post-race for colliding with Esteban Gutiérrez. ^[13]

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Driver Points 1 Sebastian Vettel* 372 2 Fernando Alonso 227 1 3 Lewis Hamilton 187 1 4 Kimi Räikkönen 183 5 Mark Webber 181 Source: [16]

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Red Bull-Renault* 553 2 Mercedes 348 3 Ferrari 333 4 Lotus-Renault 315 5 McLaren-Mercedes 102 Source: [16]

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
• Those in bold and with an asterisk are 2013 World Champions.

References

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9. Wise, Mike (15 November 2013). "Jenson Button has been handed a three-place grid penalty for the United States GP". Sky Sports . BSkyB . Retrieved 15 November 2013.
10. Straw, Edd (16 November 2013). "Caterham's Charles Pic gets gearbox penalty". Autosport . Haymarket Publications . Retrieved 16 November 2013.
11. "Gutierrez and Chilton handed penalties for impeding". Formula1.com. Formula One Management. 16 November 2013. Archived from the original on 18 November 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
12. Benson, Andrew (17 November 2013). "Sebastian Vettel takes record eighth win in row at the US GP". BBC Sport . Retrieved 20 February 2021.
13. "Vergne penalised for Gutierrez clash". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. 17 November 2013. Archived from the original on 22 November 2013. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
14. "2013 United States Grand Prix Qualifying Results". Formula1.com. Formula One Management. 16 November 2013. Archived from the original on 19 November 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
15. "2013 United States Grand Prix Race Results". Formula1.com. Formula One Management. 17 November 2013. Archived from the original on 19 November 2013. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
16. "United States 2013 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 21 March 2019.

External links

• 2013 United States Grand Prix at formula1.com

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