2022 United States Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 19 of 22 in the 2022 Formula One World Championship
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Race details [1] | |||||
Date | October 23, 2022 | ||||
Official name | Formula 1 Aramco United States Grand Prix 2022 | ||||
Location | Circuit of the Americas Austin, Texas, United States | ||||
Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
Course length | 5.513 km (3.426 miles) | ||||
Distance | 56 laps, 308.405 km (191.634 miles) | ||||
Weather | Partly cloudy | ||||
Attendance | 440,000 [2] | ||||
Pole position | |||||
Driver | Ferrari | ||||
Time | 1:34.356 | ||||
Fastest lap | |||||
Driver | George Russell | Mercedes | |||
Time | 1:38.788 on lap 56 | ||||
Podium | |||||
First | Red Bull Racing-RBPT | ||||
Second | Mercedes | ||||
Third | Ferrari | ||||
Lap leaders |
The 2022 United States Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Aramco United States Grand Prix 2022) was a Formula One motor race, held on October 23, 2022, at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, United States. The race was the 19th round of the 2022 Formula One World Championship and the 51st running of the United States Grand Prix, the 43rd time the race was run as a World Championship event since the inaugural 1950 season, and the tenth time a World Championship round was held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.
It was won by defending champion Max Verstappen, who was followed by Lewis Hamilton in second and Charles Leclerc in third. With Verstappen taking victory and teammate Sergio Pérez finishing fourth, Red Bull secured its fifth Constructors' Championship title and the first since 2013. [3]
The event was held across the weekend of October 21–23. It was the nineteenth round of the 2022 Formula One World Championship. Max Verstappen entered the race as the defending winner.
Going into the weekend, Max Verstappen had secured his second consecutive Drivers' Championship at the previous round, the Japanese Grand Prix. He led by 113 points from teammate Sergio Pérez, second, and Charles Leclerc, third, by 114. Red Bull Racing team led the Constructors' Championship from Ferrari by 165 points and Mercedes by 232 points. [4] Red Bull Racing could have secured their fifth World Constructors' Championship, and first since 2013, if Ferrari would not outscore them by 19 points. [5]
The drivers and teams were the same as the season entry list with no additional stand-in drivers for the race. [6] Four drivers made their Formula One practice debuts in the first practice session: Logan Sargeant in place of Nicholas Latifi at Williams, Robert Shwartzman in place of Charles Leclerc at Ferrari, Théo Pourchaire in place of Valtteri Bottas at Alfa Romeo, and 2021 IndyCar Series driver's champion Álex Palou in place of Daniel Ricciardo at McLaren. [7] [8] [9] [10] Antonio Giovinazzi drove for Haas in the same session in place of Kevin Magnussen. [11]
Tyre supplier Pirelli brought the C2, C3, and C4 tyre compounds (designated hard, medium, and soft, respectively) for teams to use at the event. [12]
Pos. | No. | Driver | Constructor | Qualifying times | Final grid | ||
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Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | |||||
1 | 55 | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Ferrari | 1:35.297 | 1:35.590 | 1:34.356 | 1 |
2 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 1:35.795 | 1:35.246 | 1:34.421 | 12 1 |
3 | 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing-RBPT | 1:35.864 | 1:35.294 | 1:34.448 | 2 |
4 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Red Bull Racing-RBPT | 1:36.163 | 1:35.864 | 1:34.645 | 9 2 |
5 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:36.148 | 1:35.732 | 1:34.947 | 3 |
6 | 63 | George Russell | Mercedes | 1:36.195 | 1:35.692 | 1:34.988 | 4 |
7 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes | 1:36.860 | 1:36.032 | 1:35.598 | 5 |
8 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren-Mercedes | 1:36.465 | 1:36.341 | 1:35.690 | 6 |
9 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Alpine-Renault | 1:36.446 | 1:35.988 | 1:35.876 | 14 2 |
10 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Alfa Romeo-Ferrari | 1:36.746 | 1:36.321 | 1:36.319 | 7 |
11 | 23 | Alexander Albon | Williams-Mercedes | 1:36.932 | 1:36.368 | N/A | 8 |
12 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes | 1:36.695 | 1:36.398 | N/A | 10 |
13 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | AlphaTauri-RBPT | 1:36.577 | 1:36.740 | N/A | 11 |
14 | 24 | Zhou Guanyu | Alfa Romeo-Ferrari | 1:36.656 | 1:36.970 | N/A | 18 2 |
15 | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | AlphaTauri-RBPT | 1:36.808 | 1:37.147 | N/A | 19 3 |
16 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas-Ferrari | 1:36.949 | N/A | N/A | 13 |
17 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | McLaren-Mercedes | 1:37.046 | N/A | N/A | 15 |
18 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine-Renault | 1:37.068 | N/A | N/A | PL 4 |
19 | 47 | Mick Schumacher | Haas-Ferrari | 1:37.111 | N/A | N/A | 16 |
20 | 6 | Nicholas Latifi | Williams-Mercedes | 1:37.244 | N/A | N/A | 17 |
107% time: 1:41.968 | |||||||
Source: [13] [14] |
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