2018 United States Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 18 of 21 in the 2018 Formula One World Championship
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Race details[1] | |||||
Date | October 21, 2018 | ||||
Official name | Formula 1 Pirelli 2018 United States Grand Prix | ||||
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) | ||||
Weather | Partly cloudy | ||||
Pole position | |||||
Driver | Mercedes | ||||
Time | 1:32.237 | ||||
Fastest lap | |||||
Driver | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | |||
Time | 1:37.392 on lap 40 | ||||
Podium | |||||
First | Ferrari | ||||
Second | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | ||||
Third | Mercedes | ||||
Lap leaders |
The 2018 United States Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Pirelli 2018 United States Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on October 21, 2018, at the Circuit of the Americas near Austin, Texas. It served as the eighteenth round of the 2018 Formula One World Championship and marked the fourty-eighth running of the United States Grand Prix, the fourtieth time that the race ran as a World Championship event, and the seventh time that it was held at this circuit.
Kimi Räikkönen won the race after starting from third position, earning his first Grand Prix win since the 2013 Australian Grand Prix and ending a record 114-race winless streak.[2] It was his first victory with Ferrari since the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix, as well as the team's first win in the United States since 2006. The race was the final victory of Räikkönen's F1 career, and remains Ferrari's most recent win in the United States.