United States Grand Prix: Formula One – live

We’ve done the drivers’ standings, so here’s a brief reminder of the constructors:

1 Mercedes 🇩🇪 578pts
2 Ferrari 🇮🇹 444
3 McLaren 🇬🇧 339
4 Red Bull 🇦🇹 332
5 Racing Bulls 🇮🇹 100
6 Alpine 🇫🇷 68
7 Haas 🇺🇸 30
8 Audi 🇩🇪 23
9 Williams 🇬🇧 12
10 Aston Martin 🇬🇧 7
11 Cadillac 🇺🇸 0

On the US broadcast, Apple has decided to bring on as its expert … Apple CEO John Ternus. We find out that he likes driving and thinks F1 (broadcast on Apple TV) is growing rapidly in the US and he think F1 The Movie (produced by Apple Studios) was very good. Funny that.

Who says nice guys don’t finish first? Kimi may well not clinch the title today, but he almost certainly will soon. Giles Richards looked at why Everyone Loves Kimi for us earlier this week:

So here we are. Nine-year-old Kimi Antonelli* has a chance to become the youngest champion in F1 history today – and he’s sitting on pole too. He leads the championship by 102 points over his Mercedes teammate George Russell. He’ll clinch the championship if he wins and Russell finishes outside the top eight, with Lewis Hamilton outside the top four. While the two Britons will push Antonelli, the man who appears to be most on his mind is Max Verstappen, who has been in brilliant form – and not just against amateur karters – and sits second on the grid in Austin.

“Max has been very quick and did an incredible job in qualifying so it’s not going to be easy,” Antonelli said on Saturday. “Hopefully we’ll be leading into turn one and we’ll try to set the pace, even though it’s going to be very tight.”

Drivers’ standings

1 Kimi Antonelli 🇮🇹 Mercedes 340 pts
2 George Russell 🇬🇧 Mercedes 238
3 Lewis Hamilton 🇬🇧 Ferrari 229
4 Max Verstappen 🇳🇱 Red Bull 221
5 Charles Leclerc 🇲🇨 Ferrari 215
6 Lando Norris 🇬🇧 McLaren 201
7 Oscar Piastri 🇦🇺 McLaren 138
8 Isack Hadjar 🇫🇷 Red Bull 97
9 Liam Lawson 🇳🇿 Racing Bulls 75
10 Pierre Gasly 🇫🇷 Alpine 41
11 Arvid Lindblad 🇬🇧 Racing Bulls 38
12 Franco Colapinto 🇦🇷 Alpine 27
13 Oliver Bearman 🇬🇧 Haas 23
14 Nico Hülkenberg 🇩🇪 Audi 13
15 Gabriel Bortoleto 🇧🇷 Audi 10
16 Esteban Ocon 🇫🇷 Haas 7
17 Fernando Alonso 🇪🇸 Aston Martin 7
18 Carlos Sainz 🇪🇸 Williams 7
19 Alexander Albon 🇹🇭 Williams 5
20 Yuki Tsunoda 🇯🇵 Racing Bulls 1

Yet to score:
Lance Stroll 🇨🇦 Aston Martin
Valtteri Bottas 🇫🇮 Cadillac
Sergio Pérez 🇲🇽 Cadillac

* Actual age of F1 genius may be closer to 20.

Source: www.theguardian.com — article syndicated from the publisher’s feed; all rights remain with the original publisher.