United States GP: Max Verstappen denies Lewis Hamilton first 2022 win with late overtake as Red Bull clinch constructors’ title

Max Verstappen seals record-equalling 13th win of the season, as Red Bull clinch first constructors’ title since 2013; Verstappen passed Hamilton with seven laps remaining, after earlier losing lead with slow pit-stop; Fernando Alonso in huge airborne crash after Lance Stroll collision

Max Verstappen denied Lewis Hamilton his first win of Formula 1 2022 with a late race-clinching overtake in a thrilling United States Grand Prix, as the drivers’ world champion helped clinch the constructors’ title for Red Bull.

A race that included two Safety Cars was turned on its head when a dreadful Red Bull pit-stop surrendered Verstappen’s big lead on Lap 35, which propelled Hamilton into the ascendancy at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas.

Verstappen, though – more determined than ever despite his recent championship – closed the four-second gap on medium tyres to hunt down Hamilton, on hards, and then crucially overtake him with seven laps remaining with a lunge into Turn 12.

Verstappen and team-mate Sergio Perez, who finished fourth behind Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, sealed the constructors’ crown for Red Bull with their efforts, the team’s first double championship season since 2013.

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Max Verstappen drops down to P5 after a nightmare pit stop, allowing Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc to get ahead.

The victory was also Verstappen’s 13th of 2022, which equals an F1 record for the most wins in a season, while it also means Hamilton has to wait to extend his record of winning a race in all of his 16 campaigns. The Mercedes driver, though, could not have done much more on Sunday.

George Russell finished fifth in the other Mercedes, hampered by a five-second penalty and front-wing damage after hitting Carlos Sainz at the start of the race.

Sainz, who started on pole, had lost the position to Verstappen into the first corner and then was shunted into by Russell, leading to a water leak and a hugely frustrating DNF for the Spaniard.

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Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll collided at the US GP, with Alonso sent airborne as a result

Lando Norris was supremely fast in the closing stages to claim sixth, ahead of Fernando Alonso who had an incredibly wild Sunday.

Alonso went airborne in a frightening high-speed crash with Lance Stroll on Lap 23 – when the Aston Martin moved late on the straight – but while Stroll retired with damage the Alpine driver somehow continued and made great progress afterwards.

That caused the second Safety Car, with the first for Valtteri Bottas’ beaching of his Alfa Romeo on Lap 18 having closed up the pack after Verstappen stormed into an early lead.

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Another spin in the United States Grand Prix sees Valtteri Bottas ending his race in the gravel and deploying the first safety car.

Sebastian Vettel salvaged eighth but it could have been so much more, with the soon-to-be retired multiple world champion running in the top positions for most of the race. He was even leading before a 16-second pit-stop, even slower than Verstappen’s, dropped him well down the order.

United States GP Race Result, Top 10
1. Max Verstappen, Red Bull
2. Lewis Hamilton, Mecedes
3. Charles Leclerc, Ferrari
4. Sergio Perez, Red Bull
5. George Russell, Mercedes
6. Lando Norris, McLaren
7. Fernando Alonso, Alpine
8. Sebastian Vettel, Aston Martin
9. Kevin Magnussen, Haas
10. Yuki Tsunoda, AlphaTauri

More to follow.

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