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00:00Time for some racing, though, here in Austin.
00:03It's lights out, and away we go.
00:06Verstappen and Russell get away quite evenly.
00:08Charles Leclerc gaining on George Russell.
00:10Verstappen's taking the inside line down towards Turn 1.
00:13Verstappen from Russell, round the outside comes Carlos Sainz,
00:17gets a bit bogged down.
00:18Lando Norris, from fourth on the grid,
00:20goes wheel-to-wheel with George Russell,
00:22down the hill, and gets into second place.
00:25And that's exactly the start that Lando Norris needed.
00:28Russell was very slow releasing off the top of the first corner
00:31as an Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso goes across the gravel.
00:35And then Lando braved it out around the outside,
00:38and that gave him track position for Turn 3.
00:41And he looks to have a pace advantage as well
00:43as he picks up the slipstream as into the next braking zone we go.
00:46And Charles Leclerc down the inside on George Russell.
00:49Great move from the Ferrari driver.
00:51Can he hang on? Because he went a bit too deep.
00:53He's got the inside line into the next corner,
00:55and I think that might just help him out.
00:57But Russell is sticking to this absolutely beautifully.
01:00Now he has the inside line and holds on to that third place.
01:04But for how much longer?
01:05He's already taken two tenths out of that advantage
01:07as here come the two Ferraris.
01:09They've both got DRS.
01:10Carlos Sainz getting pretty racy.
01:12Charles Leclerc on the inside, hangs on to fourth place.
01:15Sainz, though, gets a really good exit,
01:17and we're going to see a fight between the two Ferraris,
01:19I think, now for the rest of this race.
01:21Lewis Hamilton's done a stunning middle sector on this lap,
01:24and George Russell did a great first sector.
01:26And down the inside goes Carlos Sainz on Charles Leclerc,
01:29but he's gone too deep.
01:30Leclerc gets that place back again.
01:32No team orders down at Ferrari.
01:34It's wheel-to-wheel action between the two Scuderias.
01:37George Russell on his own in third place.
01:39The two Ferraris separated by a few metres.
01:42There goes Carlos Sainz down the inside.
01:44Leclerc knew he was coming.
01:46It's the old switcheroo, isn't it, for Charles Leclerc?
01:49And back into fourth he goes.
01:51We've got to try and come back on the others if possible.
01:54Copy.
01:56In other words, call my team-mate off.
01:58Let's catch them up, then go racing.
02:01Sergio Perez down towards turn 12 we go.
02:05There's a big lock-up there.
02:07He nearly runs into the back of the RV.
02:12As you can see, right on the tail now, Lando Norris.
02:15He's in trouble as Norris, Charles Leclerc,
02:17sees Carlos Sainz coming,
02:19and thinks, now I'm going to have to try and sort this out,
02:21because I was going to try the switcheroo,
02:23but it's not quite worked.
02:24Leclerc went off the track.
02:26Sainz is now ahead of him.
02:27This time he might make that one stick.
02:29Not by George Russell.
02:30He's gaining on Norris.
02:31He's gaining on Norris.
02:32Norris wants to force him wide round the outside.
02:35Norris does just that.
02:37George Russell thinks, no, I'll save that for another day,
02:39and maybe that day might come a little bit sooner than you think.
02:42Is there a gap down the inside here for George Russell?
02:45He's really going for it through this next section of corners.
02:47Inside line goes to Norris,
02:49who stays in second place, but only just.
02:52Here is Oskar Piastri.
02:54He's got Lars Stroll in his sights now,
02:56down that back straight.
02:57Stroll on the right-hand side.
02:59Not really fighting that one too hard.
03:01Piastri had too much pace.
03:02I can see Alonso.
03:03Do you need to do the replay?
03:04Fernando Alonso.
03:06Liam Lawson is the car ahead of him.
03:08Not so much experience.
03:10Sixth place for Liam Lawson.
03:12Man, the AlphaTauri is such an idiot.
03:15I'm glad it's not just me who calls them,
03:18still calls them the AlphaTauris.
03:20After a bad opening phase for Fernando Alonso,
03:23he's fighting.
03:24They're making the other ones in.
03:25Kevin Magnussen.
03:26There's a fight going on with him.
03:28He was told to give the place back to Yuki Tsunoda,
03:31but in the meantime,
03:32Kropke-Hulkenberg has overtaken Tsunoda,
03:34so there's an argument going on down there,
03:35back in the field.
03:36And the stewards are looking at Piastri and Gasly
03:39for forcing another driver off the track.
03:41Alpine and McLaren.
03:42I'm amazed they can tell the two apart, quite frankly.
03:44And Fernando Alonso lost a place there
03:46to Esteban Ocon in that movement.
03:48Ocon's got ahead of Lawson.
03:49Yeah, Ocon overtook two cars with that.
03:51And there was the clash.
03:53A lot of high-speed corners,
03:55and then you get this much more technical section.
03:58And there he goes.
03:59At the inside,
04:00Carlos Sainz grabs track position.
04:03And Russell off the track needs to yield, does he?
04:12And there goes Charles Leclerc doing to George Russell
04:15what Carlos Sainz did to George Russell.
04:17Three and a half miles previously.
04:19That was a carbon copy of one Ferrari overtaking a Mercedes.
04:24It's happened twice,
04:25and Russell's down to fifth.
04:27Here comes Sergio Perez behind Yuki Tsunoda.
04:30Perez in the Red Bull seat.
04:32Tsunoda wouldn't mind that for next season.
04:34And he didn't really defend too hard,
04:37but might fancy his chances to get back again.
04:40Maybe felt that Perez would go a little bit too deep,
04:42but he could get that place back again.
04:43But that's not how it panned out
04:45as he goes down the inside.
04:46Yuki Tsunoda rather caught Sergio Perez napping there.
04:50The Red Bull's got better traction
04:52coming out of that left-hander,
04:53but they're going to go almost side-by-side
04:56through the triple apex.
04:57Perez stays ahead,
04:58but I don't know how much longer he's going to stay ahead for.
05:01Tsunoda is not going to give this one up.
05:03Both on Russell and Hamilton.
05:05Hamilton slightly was closing on Russell.
05:07Two seconds, Ted.
05:08There goes Oscar Piastri.
05:09You can't see him on your screen.
05:10You can now,
05:11and he's ahead of Yuki Tsunoda
05:13as they head down the hill towards Turn 2.
05:15Piastri up to 10th.
05:16Max Verstappen comfortably out in front.
05:19Who's going to get second place here?
05:21Turn 1.
05:22Is there a chance as we appear from behind the flag
05:24for Sainz on Norris?
05:25Norris looks up.
05:27The crowd go absolutely wild.
05:29Carlos Sainz slips through into second place.
05:33That is bad news for Lando Norris.
05:36When your tyres get hot and bothered,
05:38your braking is not just the lateral grip.
05:41You brake it all the way.
05:44That was almost the end of the race
05:47for both Leclerc and for Norris.
05:50How close was this moment?
05:52Holding at the braking.
05:56Wow.
05:58Lando went really tight into the apex.
06:01The chequered flag is out for Max Verstappen
06:04who won five consecutive sprint races before today.
06:07Make that six in a row, six of the best.
06:10Max Verstappen wins the sprint.
06:12Here in Austin, Carlos Sainz takes second place
06:16from fifth on the grid.
06:18Lando Norris holds on to third.
06:20Charles Leclerc, who almost ran into the back of him
06:23a few corners before the end, settles for fourth.
06:26Great job, Max.
06:27Nice last lap, well controlled.
06:29Focus on tomorrow.
06:30Yeah, good effort, guys.
06:32That was much better.
06:34Good race.
06:36Well done, Max.
06:37Very controlled race.
06:38Well done, mate.
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