{"id":218200,"date":"2025-10-16T17:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218200\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:11:07","slug":"united-states-grand-prix-2025-declared-heat-hazard-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218200\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Grand Prix 2025 declared ‘heat hazard’ race"},"content":{"rendered":"

For this season, the cooling vests are optional, and some drivers, such as four-time world champion Max Verstappen,<\/a> do not like them because they consider them uncomfortable and flawed.<\/p>\n

Williams driver Alex Albon said it was a “polarising subject”, between “the old-school and new-school mentality”, but that the cooling vest was “a good thing”.<\/p>\n

Referencing the Singapore Grand Prix on 5 October, he added: “As a team we’ve done a really good job with the cooling system. It works well on our car, it’s comfortable. The first 20 laps of the race I was actually cold rather than hot, which was definitely a new thing for me.<\/p>\n

“In a weird way I think we see it as an advantage as a team because if we’ve got drivers that are fresher at the end of the race then surely that’s performance.<\/p>\n

“It’s not actually driver fitness-related when you’re talking about heat hazards. There’s a lot of science behind it. It’s generally just a risk, the heat that we’re getting subjected to.”<\/p>\n

But Albon said he did not know whether the system would be necessary in Austin this weekend.<\/p>\n

“Humidity is always a struggling factor,” Albon said. “Getting your skin to breathe with all the fireproofs that we have on our car and all these kind of things.<\/p>\n

“When it’s dry heat, and this doesn’t feel that humid out there at the moment, it’s relatively comfortable for us.”<\/p>\n

Mercedes driver George Russell wore the vest when he won in Singapore<\/a> in hot and humid conditions on 5 October.<\/p>\n

If the driver chooses not to wear the vest, his car must carry 500 grams of ballast to compensate for the weight of the system so he does not gain a competitive advantage.<\/p>\n

The system, which teams can make to their individual designs, typically features a liquid such as glycol pumped through a tank of dry ice and through the driver’s fireproof top.<\/p>\n

Issues with the system include the dry ice running out. This leads to liquid at car temperature, which is hotter than ambient temperature, being pumped through the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For this season, the cooling vests are optional, and some drivers, such as four-time world champion Max Verstappen,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-218200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}