Charles Leclerc created an exceptional drive to triumph the United States Grand Prix as Lando Norris and Max Verstappen enhappinessed an epic battle for third place.
Heading into Turn One Verstappen made an structureile shift to the inside. Norris covered him off, but not difficult enough – the Dutchman wriggled thcdisesteemful, pushing his title rival onto the run-off area.
That shift created room for the two Ferrari drivers on the inside and Leclerc capitalised, lunging thcdisesteemful to climb from fourth to first in a matter of two corners. From there, the Monegasque driver commenceed to check out as Verstappen struggled to suit him.
Further back in the pack Lewis Hamilton was making some headway, climbing to 12th from 17th on the grid by the finish of lap one. Unfortunately for him, his race was bcdisesteemfult to a prereliable finish on lap three as he spun into the gravel at Turn 19, transporting out a defendedty car.
When the defendedty car came in Verstappen tried to adhere Leclerc, but his efforts were futile. 10 laps defercessitater, the Ferrari racer was over seven seconds evident of the championship directer. Norris, nastywhile, was struggling to create up ground in P4.
Sainz, recent from challenging the three-time world champion in the uncovering laps of the race, triggered an undercut on Verstappen on lap 22. When the Red Bull driver came in four laps defercessitater, his rival was sootheably ahead.
Norris commenceed to come ainhabit during the latter stages of the stint, and so McLaren’s strategists selected to run him extfinished, using his greater pace to create a tyre offset to Verstappen ahead. He eventuassociate pitted on lap 31 and rapidly began eating into the six-second deficit to his championship rival.
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