ROUND 19: 🇺🇸 United States
FORMULA 1 MSC CRUISES UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX 2025
Circuit stats
- Circuit name: Circuit of The Americas
- First Grand Prix: 2012
- Number of laps: 56
- Circuit Length: 5.513 km
- Race Distance: 308.728 km
- Lap record: 1:36.169 Charles Leclerc (2019)
- 2024 winner: Charles Leclerc
Usually it’s a bit of both, no? Team is responsible for when to release from pits, driver is responsible for out lap time and general lap preparation
Makes sense yeah, but there’s only so much a driver can do during the outlap. If they go too fast they risk not having the tires in their optimal setting, plus they need to yield to drivers on a push lap.
Not to mention battery and fuel levels as well, that’s usually why drivers never go for 2 laps in a row