A Sprint win, pole position and a dominant Grand Prix victory \u2013 the numbers looked all but perfect for Red Bull\u2019s Max Verstappen in Austin. But don\u2019t be fooled, there were plenty of other fascinating figures generated by Sunday\u2019s showdown at the Circuit of The Americas. Here\u2019s our round-up of the best\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2022\tVerstappen becomes the first driver to win seven Grands Prix in the United States (four in Austin, two in Miami, one in Las Vegas).<\/p>\n
\u2022\tVerstappen has scored 119 of a possible 133 points in the last five Grand Prix weekends.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tVerstappen finished 1m 12s behind the race winner in Hungary, just six races ago.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tVerstappen is now 40 points off the championship lead. That deficit was 104 points only four races ago.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tThis was the fifth consecutive Grand Prix to be won from pole this season, with the winning driver leading 281 out of 294 laps in that time.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tVerstappen now has 122 career podium finishes, tied with Sebastian Vettel for third on the all-time list.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tThis was Verstappen\u2019s fifth consecutive podium finish (he only scored five podium finishes in the first 14 Grands Prix this year).<\/p>\n
\u2022\tP2 for Lando Norris was the McLaren driver\u2019s 15th podium finish of the season, more than any other driver.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tNorris has reduced the championship deficit to team mate Oscar Piastri to 14 points.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tCharles Leclerc \u2013 P3 for Ferrari \u2013 has now completed a full year without a race win (his last victory was Austin 2024).<\/p>\n
\u2022\tIt was Ferrari\u2019s first podium finish for six Grands Prix.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tLeclerc is the highest driver in the championship without a win this season (fifth).<\/p>\n
\u2022\tLewis Hamilton finished in P4 and has now completed 19 Grands Prix for Ferrari without finishing on the podium (a new team record).<\/p>\n
\u2022\tHamilton finished fourth in a Grand Prix for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tHamilton has never scored fewer than five podium finishes in an F1 season (he has zero podium finishes in 2025).<\/p>\n
\u2022\tPiastri took P5 and has had no podium finish in any of the last three Grands Prix (22 points scored).<\/p>\n
\u2022\tMercedes\u2019 George Russell finished in P6 \u2013 the same position he achieved when starting from the pit lane in the 2024 race.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tYuki Tsunoda\u2019s P7 for Red Bull was his best-ever result at the Circuit of The Americas.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tTsunoda has scored 16 points in the last three race weekends (he managed just 12 in the first 16 race weekends this year).<\/p>\n
\u2022\tNico Hulkenberg\u2019s P8 for Kick Sauber was his first points finish since his podium result at Silverstone.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tHulkenberg moves up to ninth in the Drivers\u2019 Championship (matching his season-high).<\/p>\n
\u2022\tHulkenberg finished eighth in Austin for the second consecutive season.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tIt was Sauber\u2019s best Austin result since Hulkenberg finished sixth in 2013, his only previous season with the team.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tWith P9 for Oliver Bearman, Haas scored in their home race for the second consecutive year.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tBearman has finished ninth in consecutive Grands Prix this season.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tFernando Alonso\u2019s P10 for Aston Martin was his eighth Grand Prix points finish of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tWith a best of P11 for Liam Lawson, Racing Bulls finished the weekend pointless for the second straight race (after a five-race scoring streak).<\/p>\n
\u2022\tMercedes\u2019 Kimi Antonelli (P13) set the fastest lap of the race for the third time this year.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tCarlos Sainz\u2019s DNF for Williams was the only retirement of the race, after he took third in Saturday\u2019s Sprint.<\/p>\n
\u2022\tWith team mate Alex Albon finishing P15, it was Williams\u2019 first pointless Grand Prix since Hungary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sprint win, pole position and a dominant Grand Prix victory \u2013 the numbers looked all but perfect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-227288","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\/227288","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=227288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}