“We had a lot increased ambitions than ending outdoors the factors,” admitted Pierre Gasly after taking the chequered flag twelfth in yesterday’s race.
Due to an upgraded automobile, an excellent qualifying lap and George Russell’s crash, Gasly secured Alpine’s greatest beginning place of the yr thus far with sixth within the grid. The group’s possibilities of a minimum of ending within the factors obtained an additional increase when Lewis Hamilton spun out within the different Mercedes on the second lap.
However Gasly’s race went awry as soon as he exchanged the medium rubber he began on for a set of hards. He did so on lap 18, one lap after his nearer pursuer, Kevin Magnussen, did the identical. Each have been doomed to complete outdoors the factors as their groups misinterpret the the race.
Given how rapidly the medium rubber dropped off throughout the dash race, and the warmer situations on race day, groups went into the race anticipating to pit twice. Nonetheless the tyres stood up higher than anticipated and the Security Automobile interval attributable to Hamilton’s spin helped groups prolong their opening stints.
So after Haas and Alpine introduced their best-placed drivers in on consecutive laps there was a pause in pit lane exercise. It turned clear a one-stopper was the best way to go. Haas finally introduced Magnussen in for a second cease, although this seems to have influenced by a pit wall miscommunication.
Alpine left Gasly out. He had already been badly delayed by a gradual pit cease, which price him round 4 seconds, dropped him behind Magnussen, and value him the possibility to emerge from the pits forward of Lance Stroll and Alexander Albon. He turned caught behind them, shedding much more time, and as soon as he cleared them Magnussen was now 10 seconds up the highway.
After the race Gasly mentioned he was “missing tempo on the onerous tyre.” Even so, regardless of his early first pit cease and the recent set of medium rubber ready for him within the pits, Alpine determined towards bringing him in. A late Security Automobile would have been a godsend, however none got here, and as an alternative Gasly was handed by the one-stopping Franco Colapinto and Magnussen after the Haas driver’s second cease. That left him a upset twelfth.
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“We had too many sub-optimal conditions all through the race,” Gasly admitted afterwards. “It seems like our rivals are simply that bit faster for the time being.”
Alpine failed to attain some extent for the fourth race in a row, however they did stop Williams from extending their lead as a lot as they could have performed. Colapinto held the quick lap because the race entered its closing phases, however Alpine introduced Esteban Ocon in for a recent set of softs to take the day without work him, although he completed 18th and couldn’t rating it himself.
2024 United States Grand Prix lap chart
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2024 United States Grand Prix race chart
The gaps between every driver on each lap in comparison with the chief’s common lap time. Very massive gaps omitted. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan and right-click to reset. Toggle drivers utilizing controls beneath:
2024 United States Grand Prix lap occasions
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2024 United States Grand Prix quickest laps
Every driver’s quickest lap:
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2024 United States Grand Prix tyre methods
The tyre methods for every driver:
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2024 United States Grand Prix pit cease occasions
How lengthy every driver’s pit stops took:
| Rank | # | Driver | Group | Full cease time (s) | Hole to greatest (s) | Cease no. | Lap no. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 | Sergio Perez | Pink Bull | 23.58 | 1 | 26 | |
| 2 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 23.731 | 0.151 | 1 | 31 |
| 3 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 23.817 | 0.237 | 1 | 26 |
| 4 | 30 | Liam Lawson | RB | 23.839 | 0.259 | 1 | 36 |
| 5 | 55 | Carlos Sainz Jnr | Ferrari | 23.963 | 0.383 | 1 | 21 |
| 6 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas | 23.966 | 0.386 | 1 | 17 |
| 7 | 43 | Franco Colapinto | Williams | 23.971 | 0.391 | 1 | 39 |
| 8 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas | 24.087 | 0.507 | 2 | 38 |
| 9 | 81 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 24.107 | 0.527 | 1 | 32 |
| 10 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 24.156 | 0.576 | 1 | 31 |
| 11 | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | RB | 24.193 | 0.613 | 1 | 18 |
| 12 | 1 | Max Verstappen | Pink Bull | 24.228 | 0.648 | 1 | 25 |
| 13 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 24.247 | 0.667 | 1 | 26 |
| 14 | 23 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 24.391 | 0.811 | 2 | 33 |
| 15 | 24 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 24.433 | 0.853 | 1 | 13 |
| 16 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | 24.439 | 0.859 | 1 | 15 |
| 17 | 27 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas | 24.5 | 0.92 | 1 | 27 |
| 18 | 24 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 24.89 | 1.31 | 2 | 35 |
| 19 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 26.175 | 2.595 | 2 | 51 |
| 20 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 26.399 | 2.819 | 1 | 27 |
| 21 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 28.228 | 4.648 | 1 | 18 |
| 22 | 63 | George Russell | Mercedes | 29.327 | 5.747 | 1 | 40 |
| 23 | 23 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 34.983 | 11.403 | 1 | 3 |
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