Race 2017 F1 United States Grand Prix Full Race Replay

Race 2017 F1 United States Grand Prix Full Race Replay

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Race Info
Date    October 22, 2017
Official name    2017 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix[2][3]
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)

United States Grand Prix What to Watch

Sebastian Vettel has to win the title hard before he travels to the United States.

However, Lewis Hamilton, his title challenger, has consistently found the Circuit of the Americas to be one of the best venues.

Hamilton has won four of the five races that Formula One has hosted on the Texan track thus far, including all three since the start of the V6 hybrid turbo era. He can win the title again on Sunday, just like he did two years ago at this track.

Beyond his achievements at COTA, Hamilton has a strong connection to America, where he owns a home and spends a large portion of his free time. 

At Indianoplis, he recorded his second career victory, making five of his six starts in the United States. He will have more victories than any other racer in this race if he gets one more.

Hamilton did, however, take the lead for the first time at COTA in the race last year. Vettel is the only driver other than Hamilton to have won here in 2013, and he has two poles at this track. The previous year, Vettel and Narain Karthikeyan engaged in a race-long battle for victory, which was decided when Vettel was delayed while he was lapping Narain.

Though not as good as Hamilton, Vettel has typically performed well at this track. Hamilton has never set the quickest lap at COTA, but he has four times.

Red Bull has improved during the season and might pose a threat to Ferrari once more this weekend. Last year, Daniel Ricciardo finished on the podium and could have even split the Mercedes if it weren't for a poorly timed Virtual Safety Car that also happened to be his teammate's retirement, dealing the team a double blow.

Due to his poor performance in recent races, Vettel now leads Valtteri Bottas by just 13 points in the drivers' title. Ferrari is now closer to third-place Red Bull and no longer poses a danger to Mercedes, the constructors' championship leaders, who can also win this weekend.

But for Kimi Raikkonen, a Ferrari driver who has never earned a point at COTA, this hasn't been a good hunting ground. Due to a long-standing unpaid salary debt, he did not drive the following year after finishing sixth for Lotus in the inaugural race in 2012. A pit stop error halted him a year ago, after he was out of points in 2014 and wrecked on the wet circuit the following year.

This is Max Verstappen's final opportunity to take the podium at a competition where he isn't old enough to consume champagne. He has never stood on the podium at COTA before. Although Texas has a 21-year-old legal drinking age, he turned 20 last month.

This weekend, Brendon Hartley will make his grid debut. He will make his grand prix debut on the 50th anniversary of Denny Hulme, the lone champion in New Zealand, winning the drivers' title. He is the first New Zealand driver to compete in the championship since Mike Thackwell 33 years ago.
Hamilton, who might become the fifth driver to win the championship on October 22, might also benefit from that. The others were Fernando Alonso in 2006, Michael Schumacher in 1995, Alain Prost in 1989, and Hulme in 1967.

Toro Rosso swapped both of their drivers for this weekend's race, which coincided with Hartley's unexpected debut. Gasly is on Japanese Super Formula duty at Suzuka, while Carlos Sainz Jr. is heading to Renault. Thus, Hartley and Daniil Kvyat will get back together.

When Lotus ran Johnny Herbert and Philippe Adams at Estoril and then turned up at Jerez with Eric Bernard and Alessandro Zanardi, it was the last occasion a team switched both of its drivers between successive rounds of the same season.

Hamilton is now the lone British driver competing in Formula One as a result of Jolyon Palmer's departure from Renault. When Jenson Button's BAR team was disqualified from the 2005 Monaco Grand Prix, David Coulthard was the only representative from the United Kingdom. This was the last time the British contingent shrank to just one competitor.