Round 18 · 2023Sprint

United States Grand Prix

Austin, United States20–22 Oct

Practice 1
Fri 17:30
Data published
track 39° ·air 33° ·15% hum ·5.6 km/h windwet
Qualifying
Fri 21:00
Data published
track 41° ·air 36° ·13% hum ·4.7 km/h wind
Sprint Shootout
Sat 17:30
Data published
track 39° ·air 33° ·23% hum ·5.6 km/h wind
Sprint
Sat 22:00
Data published
track 37° ·air 33° ·22% hum ·9.4 km/h wind
Fantasy lock
Grand Prix
Sun 19:00
Data published
track 41° ·air 30° ·41% hum ·12.2 km/h wind

Times in UTC

Grand Prix result

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Moved	Time / gap	Pts
1	VER	Red Bull Racing	6	5	1:35:21.362	25
2	NOR	McLaren	2	—	+10.730	18
3	SAI	Ferrari	4	1	+15.134	15
4	PER	Red Bull Racing	9	5	+18.460	12
5	RUS	Mercedes	5	—	+24.999	10
6	GAS	Alpine	7	1	+47.996	8
7	STR	Aston Martin	20	13	+48.696	6
8	TSU	AlphaTauri	11	3	+74.385	5
9	ALB	Williams	15	6	+86.714	2
10	SAR	Williams	16	6	+87.998	1
11	HUL	Haas F1 Team	18	7	+89.904
12	BOT	Alfa Romeo	13	1	+98.601
13	ZHO	Alfa Romeo	12	1	+3.576
14	MAG	Haas F1 Team	17	3	+8.071
15	RIC	AlphaTauri	14	1	+8.852
16	ALO	Aston Martin	19	3	Retired
17	PIA	McLaren	10	7	Retired
18	OCO	Alpine	8	10	Retired
19	HAM	Mercedes	3	16	+2.225
20	LEC	Ferrari	1	19	+24.662

Sprint result

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Moved	Time / gap	Pts
1	VER	Red Bull Racing	1	—	31:30.849	8
2	HAM	Mercedes	3	1	+9.465	7
3	LEC	Ferrari	2	1	+17.987	6
4	NOR	McLaren	4	—	+18.863	5
5	PER	Red Bull Racing	7	2	+22.928	4
6	SAI	Ferrari	6	—	+28.307	3
7	GAS	Alpine	9	2	+32.403	2
8	RUS	Mercedes	11	3	+34.250	1
9	ALB	Williams	8	1	+34.567
10	PIA	McLaren	5	5	+42.403
11	OCO	Alpine	13	2	+44.986
12	RIC	AlphaTauri	10	2	+45.509
13	ALO	Aston Martin	12	1	+49.086
14	TSU	AlphaTauri	19	5	+49.733
15	HUL	Haas F1 Team	16	1	+56.650
16	BOT	Alfa Romeo	18	2	+64.400
17	ZHO	Alfa Romeo	15	2	+67.972
18	MAG	Haas F1 Team	17	1	+71.122
19	SAR	Williams	20	1	+71.449
20	STR	Aston Martin	14	6	Brakes

Qualifying

Pos	Driver	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap to pole
1	LEC	1:36.061	1:35.004	1:34.723
2	NOR	1:35.110	1:35.441	1:34.853	+0.130
3	HAM	1:35.091	1:35.240	1:34.862	+0.139
4	SAI	1:35.824	1:35.302	1:34.945	+0.222
5	RUS	1:36.165	1:35.606	1:35.079	+0.356
6	VER	1:35.346	1:35.008	1:35.081	+0.358
7	GAS	1:36.158	1:35.496	1:35.089	+0.366
8	OCO	1:36.131	1:35.413	1:35.154	+0.431
9	PER	1:35.989	1:35.679	1:35.173	+0.450
10	PIA	1:36.064	1:35.576	1:35.467	+0.744
11	TSU	1:35.913	1:35.697	—	+0.974
12	ZHO	1:36.052	1:35.698	—	+0.975
13	BOT	1:36.082	1:35.858	—	+1.135
14	MAG	1:36.009	1:35.880	—	+1.157
15	RIC	1:36.213	1:35.974	—	+1.251
16	HUL	1:36.235	—	—	+1.512
17	ALO	1:36.268	—	—	+1.545
18	ALB	1:36.315	—	—	+1.592
19	STR	1:36.589	—	—	+1.866
20	SAR	1:36.827	—	—	+2.104

Sprint Qualifying

Pos	Driver	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap to pole
1	VER	1:35.997	1:35.181	1:34.538
2	LEC	1:35.999	1:35.386	1:34.593	+0.055
3	HAM	1:36.393	1:35.887	1:34.607	+0.069
4	NOR	1:36.499	1:35.594	1:34.639	+0.101
5	PIA	1:36.703	1:35.753	1:34.894	+0.356
6	SAI	1:36.268	1:35.542	1:34.939	+0.401
7	PER	1:36.347	1:35.718	1:35.041	+0.503
8	RUS	1:36.281	1:35.847	1:35.199	+0.661
9	ALB	1:36.230	1:35.947	1:35.366	+0.828
10	GAS	1:36.595	1:35.785	1:35.897	+1.359
11	RIC	1:36.737	1:35.978	—	+1.440
12	ALO	1:36.365	1:36.087	—	+1.549
13	OCO	1:36.372	1:36.137	—	+1.599
14	STR	1:36.575	1:36.181	—	+1.643
15	ZHO	1:36.554	1:36.182	—	+1.644
16	HUL	1:36.749	—	—	+2.211
17	MAG	1:36.922	—	—	+2.384
18	BOT	1:36.922	—	—	+2.384
19	TSU	1:36.945	—	—	+2.407
20	SAR	1:37.186	—	—	+2.648

How the weekend has moved

Practice 11:35.912run 1:42.205

Qualifying1:34.723−1.189

Sprint Shootout1:34.538−0.185

Sprint1:39.060+4.522run 1:41.948

Grand Prix1:38.139−0.921run 1:42.508

Fastest lap of each session, the change from the session before, and the midfield's median fuel-corrected long run. Times normally tumble as the track rubbers in.

Austin in earlier seasons

20231:35.912run 1:42.205

20221:35.825−0.087run 1:43.718

20211:34.701−1.211run 1:42.755

20191:33.232−2.680run 1:40.877

20181:33.797−2.115run 1:41.051

Fastest practice lap per season at this circuit. Layout changes, resurfacing and weather all move these numbers, so read them as context rather than a like-for-like comparison.

Practice 1

Fri 20 Oct, 17:30 UTCFastestVER1:35.912

Single-lap pace

VER1:35.912—23 laps

LEC1:36.068+0.15625 laps

HAM1:36.193+0.28123 laps

PER1:36.212+0.30023 laps

MAG1:36.472+0.56021 laps

RUS1:36.474+0.56225 laps

ALB1:36.492+0.58021 laps

SAI1:36.533+0.62124 laps

HUL1:36.702+0.79021 laps

GAS1:36.705+0.79322 laps

SAR1:36.987+1.07526 laps

OCO1:37.066+1.15422 laps

TSU1:37.104+1.19225 laps

RIC1:37.152+1.24024 laps

NOR1:37.256+1.34421 laps

ZHO1:37.418+1.50625 laps

BOT1:37.517+1.60524 laps

ALO1:37.840+1.92819 laps

PIA1:38.420+2.50822 laps

STR1:39.940+4.0285 laps

Best lap regardless of fuel load or compound — a sighting shot, not a form guide.

Long runs, fuel-corrected

Driver	Tyre	Laps	Fuel-corrected	Gap	Spread	Deg / lap
OCO	H	6*	1:40.774	—	±1.177	—
GAS	H	6*	1:40.840	+0.066	±1.396	—
RUS	H	7*	1:41.106	+0.332	±0.680	—
HAM	H	6*	1:41.655	+0.881	±0.645	—
TSU	M	7*	1:42.010	+1.236	±0.268	—
SAR	M	6*	1:42.164	+1.390	±0.661	—
NOR	M	6*	1:42.205	+1.431	±1.573	—
BOT	M	6*	1:42.540	+1.766	±1.021	—
RIC	M	6*	1:42.552	+1.778	±0.388	—
PER	H	6*	1:43.112	+2.338	±0.320	—
ZHO	M	7*	1:43.153	+2.379	±0.721	—
VER	H	8	1:43.383	+2.609	±0.476	+0.067s
HUL	M	5*	1:43.625	+2.851	±0.632	—

Each driver's longest clean stint, using green-flag laps only. Cool-down laps go first (anything more than 7% slower than that stint's best), then laps sitting well above the stint's own trend — traffic and mistakes — and a stint is discarded entirely if what remains isn't one continuous run. Times are corrected for fuel burn at 60 ms per lap, measured from 2024 race stints rather than assumed. Runs under eight laps (marked *) get no degradation figure, because a trend through so few laps is noise. Teams don't publish fuel loads, and 15 kg is worth about 0.4s a lap, so read these as driver groupings rather than exact gaps, and compare runs on the same compound.

Sectors and the lap they could have done

Driver	S1	S2	S3	Ideal lap	Best lap	Left out
VER	25.860	38.675	31.377	1:35.912	1:35.912	0.000
LEC	25.822	38.722	31.454	1:35.998	1:36.068	0.070
HAM	25.830	38.652	31.711	1:36.193	1:36.193	0.000
PER	26.005	38.725	31.482	1:36.212	1:36.212	0.000
ALB	25.977	38.696	31.728	1:36.401	1:36.492	0.091
RUS	26.086	38.813	31.535	1:36.434	1:36.474	0.040
TSU	25.975	38.818	31.642	1:36.435	1:37.104	0.669
MAG	26.106	38.830	31.536	1:36.472	1:36.472	0.000
SAI	25.936	38.725	31.813	1:36.474	1:36.533	0.059
HUL	26.207	38.687	31.742	1:36.636	1:36.702	0.066
GAS	26.146	38.907	31.652	1:36.705	1:36.705	0.000
SAR	26.145	38.833	31.852	1:36.830	1:36.987	0.157
RIC	26.195	38.960	31.893	1:37.048	1:37.152	0.104
OCO	26.163	39.152	31.751	1:37.066	1:37.066	0.000
NOR	26.170	39.121	31.942	1:37.233	1:37.256	0.023
ZHO	26.168	39.298	31.844	1:37.310	1:37.418	0.108
BOT	26.182	39.090	32.053	1:37.325	1:37.517	0.192
ALO	26.351	39.343	32.146	1:37.840	1:37.840	0.000
PIA	26.264	39.534	32.396	1:38.194	1:38.420	0.226
STR	26.968	39.941	33.031	1:39.940	1:39.940	0.000

Best sector times are usually set on different laps, so their sum — the ideal lap — is quicker than anyone's actual best. The last column is the time left out there. Purple marks the session's fastest sector.

What the tyres are worth here

SSoft — referenceM+1.214(6 drivers ran both)H+1.586(5 drivers ran both)

Measured within each driver — only drivers who set a representative time on both compounds count — then averaged, so this isn't distorted by who happened to run which tyre. A lap counts only if it is within 2% of that driver's own best of the session, which keeps genuine runs on a slower tyre while dropping in-laps and aborted runs that would otherwise masquerade as a compound's best. A compound fewer than three drivers tried is listed but not priced. Even so, these laps aren't all qualifying simulations, so read this as the order of the compounds rather than an exact price.

Team-mates, head to head

Red Bull RacingVERahead of PER+0.300

FerrariLECahead of SAI+0.465

MercedesHAMahead of RUS+0.281

Haas F1 TeamMAGahead of HUL+0.230

WilliamsALBahead of SAR+0.495

AlpineGASahead of OCO+0.361

AlphaTauriTSUahead of RIC+0.048

McLarenNORahead of PIA+1.164

Alfa RomeoZHOahead of BOT+0.099

Aston MartinALOahead of STR+2.100

Same car, so the gap on their best lap is the clearest read on the driver available.

Stints and compounds

VER71033

LEC1087

HAM9833

PER71033

MAG7176

RUS9934

ALB5763

SAI987

HUL7734

GAS7933

SAR9863

OCO7933

TSU997

RIC987

NOR939

ZHO71035

BOT798

ALO577

PIA895

STR5

SSoftMMediumHHard