| Type: | F1 |
| Country: | USA |
| Grand Prix: | United States |
| Details Ref: | [1] |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Race No: | 18 |
| Season No: | 21 |
| Previous Round: | 2018 Japanese Grand Prix |
| Next Round: | 2018 Mexican Grand Prix |
| Image-Size: | 250px |
| Official Name: | Formula 1 Pirelli 2018 United States Grand Prix |
| Location: | Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas, United States |
| Weather: | Partly cloudy |
| Course: | Permanent racing facility |
| Course Km: | 5.513 |
| Course Mi: | 3.426 |
| Distance Laps: | 56 |
| Distance Km: | 308.405 |
| Distance Mi: | 191.634 |
| Pole Driver: | Lewis Hamilton |
| Pole Country: | GBR |
| Pole Team: | Mercedes |
| Pole Time: | 1:32.237 |
| Fast Driver: | Lewis Hamilton |
| Fast Team: | Mercedes |
| Fast Time: | 1:37.392 |
| Fast Lap: | 40 |
| Fast Country: | GBR |
| First Team: | Ferrari |
| Third Driver: | Lewis Hamilton |
| Third Country: | GBR |
| Third Team: | Mercedes |
The 2018 United States Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Pirelli 2018 United States Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on October 21, 2018, at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, United States. The race was the 18th round of the 2018 Formula One World Championship and marked the 48th running of the United States Grand Prix, the 40th time that the race run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in, and the 7th time that a World Championship round was held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.
The race was won by Kimi Räikkönen, who made a one-stop strategy work, achieving his first Grand Prix win since the 2013 Australian Grand Prix, breaking a record-setting 113-race winless streak. It was also his first for Ferrari since the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix and the first time that Ferrari had won at the Circuit of the Americas as well as the team's first win in America since 2006. This would also turn out to be the final victory of Räikkönen's F1 career.
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a 67-point lead over Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in the World Drivers' Championship. Hamilton's team-mate, Valtteri Bottas, sat third, a further 57 points behind. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes held a lead of 78 points over Ferrari, with Red Bull Racing a further 141 points behind in third place.
Lando Norris and Sean Gelael drove in the first practice session instead of Stoffel Vandoorne and Brendon Hartley for McLaren and Toro Rosso respectively. Nicholas Latifi was supposed to drive in the same session in place of Esteban Ocon at Force India, but this was reversed ahead of the session.[2] [3]
Tyre supplier Pirelli selected the soft, supersoft and ultrasoft tyres for the Grand Prix weekend.[4]
| Driver | Constructor | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | ||||||
| 1 | 44 | data-sort-value="HAM" | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:34.130 | 1:33.480 | 1:32.237 | 1 |
| 2 | 5 | data-sort-value="VET" | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 1:34.569 | 1:33.079 | 1:32.298 | 5 |
| 3 | 7 | data-sort-value="RAI" | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 1:34.703 | 1:32.884 | 1:32.307 | 2 |
| 4 | 77 | data-sort-value="BOT" | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 1:34.518 | 1:33.702 | 1:32.616 | 3 |
| 5 | 3 | data-sort-value="RIC" | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 1:34.755 | 1:34.185 | 1:33.494 | 4 |
| 6 | 31 | data-sort-value="OCO" | Esteban Ocon | Force India-Mercedes | 1:34.876 | 1:34.522 | 1:34.145 | 6 |
| 7 | 27 | data-sort-value="HUL" | Nico Hülkenberg | Renault | 1:34.932 | 1:34.564 | 1:34.215 | 7 |
| 8 | 8 | data-sort-value="GRO" | Romain Grosjean | Haas-Ferrari | 1:34.892 | 1:34.419 | 1:34.250 | 8 |
| 9 | 16 | data-sort-value="LEC" | Charles Leclerc | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:35.069 | 1:34.255 | 1:34.420 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | data-sort-value="PER" | Sergio Pérez | Force India-Mercedes | 1:35.193 | 1:34.525 | 1:34.594 | 10 |
| 11 | 55 | data-sort-value="SAI" | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Renault | 1:34.891 | 1:34.566 | 11 | |
| 12 | 20 | data-sort-value="MAG" | Kevin Magnussen | Haas-Ferrari | 1:34.972 | 1:34.732 | 12 | |
| 13 | 10 | data-sort-value="GAS" | Pierre Gasly | 1:34.850 | No time | 19 | ||
| 14 | 28 | data-sort-value="HAR" | Brendon Hartley | Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda | 1:35.206 | No time | 20 | |
| 15 | 33 | data-sort-value="VER" | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 1:34.766 | No time | 18 | |
| 16 | 14 | data-sort-value="ALO" | Fernando Alonso | McLaren-Renault | 1:35.294 | 13 | ||
| 17 | 35 | data-sort-value="SIR" | Sergey Sirotkin | Williams-Mercedes | 1:35.362 | 14 | ||
| 18 | 18 | data-sort-value="STR" | Lance Stroll | Williams-Mercedes | 1:35.480 | 15 | ||
| 19 | 9 | data-sort-value="ERI" | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:35.536 | 16 | ||
| 20 | 2 | data-sort-value="VAN" | McLaren-Renault | 1:35.735 | 17 | |||
| 107% time 1:40.719 | ||||||||
| Source:[5] | ||||||||
Kimi Räikkönen won the race from second as Mercedes struggled with pace, pulling off a one-stop strategy having beaten polesitter Lewis Hamilton off the line, with Hamilton finishing third, beaten to second by Max Verstappen. Sebastian Vettel made an error at the start, spinning while battling with Daniel Ricciardo, eventually fighting back to finish fourth. Hamilton lost time when the Mercedes pit crew waited too long before bringing him in for his second pit stop.[9]
| Driver | Constructor | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | data-sort-value="RAI" | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 56 | 1:34:18.643 | 2 | 25 | |
| 2 | 33 | data-sort-value="VER" | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 56 | +1.281 | 18 | 18 | |
| 3 | 44 | data-sort-value="HAM" | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 56 | +2.342 | 1 | 15 | |
| 4 | 5 | data-sort-value="VET" | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 56 | +18.222 | 5 | 12 | |
| 5 | 77 | data-sort-value="BOT" | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 56 | +24.744 | 3 | 10 | |
| 6 | 27 | data-sort-value="HUL" | Nico Hülkenberg | Renault | 56 | +1:27.210 | 7 | 8 | |
| 7 | 55 | data-sort-value="SAI" | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Renault | 56 | +1:34.994 | 11 | 6 | |
| 8 | 11 | data-sort-value="PER" | Sergio Pérez | Force India-Mercedes | 56 | +1:41.080 | 10 | 4 | |
| 9 | 28 | data-sort-value="HAR" | Brendon Hartley | 55 | +1 lap | 20 | 2 | ||
| 10 | 9 | data-sort-value="ERI" | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber-Ferrari | 55 | +1 lap | 16 | 1 | |
| 11 | 2 | data-sort-value="VAN" | McLaren-Renault | 55 | +1 lap | 17 | |||
| 12 | 10 | data-sort-value="GAS" | Pierre Gasly | Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda | 55 | +1 lap | 19 | ||
| 13 | 35 | data-sort-value="SIR" | Sergey Sirotkin | Williams-Mercedes | 55 | +1 lap | 14 | ||
| 14 | 18 | data-sort-value="STR" | Lance Stroll | Williams-Mercedes | 54 | +2 laps | 15 | ||
| data-sort-value="15" | Ret | 16 | data-sort-value="LEC" | Charles Leclerc | Sauber-Ferrari | 31 | 9 | ||
| data-sort-value="16" | Ret | 3 | data-sort-value="RIC" | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 8 | Battery | 4 | |
| data-sort-value="17" | Ret | 8 | data-sort-value="GRO" | Romain Grosjean | Haas-Ferrari | 2 | Collision | 8 | |
| data-sort-value="18" | Ret | 14 | data-sort-value="ALO" | Fernando Alonso | McLaren-Renault | 1 | Collision | 13 | |
| data-sort-value="19" | DSQ | 31 | data-sort-value="OCO" | Esteban Ocon | Force India-Mercedes | 56 | Fuel | 6 | |
| data-sort-value="20" | DSQ | 20 | data-sort-value="MAG" | Kevin Magnussen | Haas-Ferrari | 56 | Fuel | 12 | |
| Source:[10] | |||||||||
| Driver | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data-sort-value="HAM" | Lewis Hamilton* | 346 | |
| 2 | data-sort-value="VET" | Sebastian Vettel* | 276 | |
| 1 | 3 | data-sort-value="RAI" | Kimi Räikkönen | 221 |
| 1 | 4 | data-sort-value="BOT" | Valtteri Bottas | 217 |
| 5 | data-sort-value="VER" | Max Verstappen | 191 | |
| Source:[13] | ||||
| Constructor | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mercedes* | 563 | ||
| 2 |  Ferrari* | 497 | ||
| 3 |  Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 337 | ||
| 4 |  Renault | 106 | ||
| 5 |  Haas-Ferrari | 84 | ||
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