Austin has seen an interesting and eventful race with the wet track. Hamilton wins the world championship again this year, mathematically, is already a champion. The track has dried very slowly and although the rain has not appeared during the race, these conditions have influenced the race, even some teams such as Williams have erred greatly in their strategy and have chosen to retire at the beginning of the race by the time they have lost with the dry tyres with the track as wet.
The GP of America has been full of overtaking interesting, runway excursions and abandonment of many riders, both due to problems such as by touches on the track. Without a doubt, one of the races more interesting, where Rosberg (with lights and shadows) is returned to the overtaking of the past year on this circuit, his team-mate. The Red Bull also have difficult to the Mercedes when the track was more wet, getting to be leader Ricciardo.
The viewers of Texas deserved this exciting race after all the delays, suspensions, and problems with the rain brought by hurricane Patricia. Sainz has made a carrerón out last and reaching the Top 10 with teammate Verstappen, who has also starred in some of the best overtaking. Big Sainz that has tarnished his career with a penalty of 5 seconds for speeding in the pit lane, a pity…
Fernando Alonso has also made a great career, that after the touch with the Williams of Massa who trompeaba in the output and lastraba good position to Alonso, making him fall to the 19th position and with a prick that has cost him to lose a lot of time. The Safety Car has managed to regroup the cars and the hands of Fernando have done the rest to climb to the 5th position until the gums soft, with more than 20 times and lack of engine power have clouded the result. McLaren has not wanted Alonso retires by if they could catch that point…
race Results
Position | Pilot | Time | Turns | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:42″939 | 56 |
2 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | +2″800 | 56 |
3 | Sebastian Vettel | McLaren | +3″300 | 56 |
4 | Max Verstappen | Toro Rosso | +22″300 | 56 |
5 | Sergio Perez | Force India | +24″400 | 56 |
6 | Jenson Button | McLaren | +25″600 | 56 |
7 | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Toro Rosso | +28″000 | 56* |
8 | Pastor Maldonado | Lotus | +32″200 | 56 |
9 | Felipe Nasr | Sauber | +40″200 | 56 |
10 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull | +53″300 | 56 |
11 | Fernando Alonso | McLaren | +54″800 | 56 |
12 | Alexander Rossi | Manor | +75″200 | 56 |
13 | Daniil Kvyat | Red Bull | +15 laps | 41 |
14 | Nico Hülkenberg | Force India | +21 laps | 35 |
15 | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber | +31 laps | 25 |
16 | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | +31 laps | 25 |
17 | Felipe Massa | Williams | +33 laps | 23 |
18 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus | +46 laps | 10 |
19 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams | +51 laps | 5 |
20 | Will Stevens | Manor | +55 laps | 1 |
Among the accidents that we have seen, one of the most striking has been that of Kvyat, who has impressed against the barriers. This has forced to leave again the Safety Car, which has come out on two occasions, I have accompanied several Virtual Safety Car for the chunks of carbon on the track, cars standing still as the Sauber of Marcus, and even the bollard in the pit lane which is also what we have seen in the middle of the track… we definitely want more races, the next in Mexico in a few days, a new clue in which we hope that you have action.