Kimi Raikkönen wins the United States Race F1

Ferrari breathes a little longer on the Driver´s Championship fight, and that´s thanks to Kimi and not Sebastien Vettel who, again, had difficulties in the first lap where he went from 5th to 14th after under steering into the Red Bull of Daniel Ricciardo in between turns 12 and 13 of the track.  Track was really dirty when he made the move on the Red Bull in the straight from turn 11 towards 12 and then he just lost the front while being pressured by Ricciardo on the outside. Ricciardo went on to retire after lap 9 with yet another mechanical failure.

But the race didn´t really end there, Max Verstappen was to play an important part, with an outstanding start, going from 15th to 5th in 7 laps, by lap 9, the Virtual Safety Car was announced due to Ricciardo´s Red Bull stopped on track and Mercedes reacted by pitting Hamilton and changing to the harder Soft Tire compound. That proved to be to early, he looked on course to a win by mid-race but his tires started to give up by lap 35 of 56 and he was being caught up by Raikkönen and Verstappen so he had to pit again and even though he did catch up with Verstappen and made a try coming out of turn 17, he ran wide and briefly off and had to settle for third.. Vettel eventually managed to overtake Valteri Bottas for 4th position who was struggling with the Soft compound as his team mate had before.

With this result, the Driver´s Championship is still open with 75 points in play and Hamilton only needing to outscore Vettel by 5 points in order to win the tittle. Mexico comes next in one week´s time.

Nico Hulkenberg finished 6th place followed by Carlos Sainz who received a 5 second penalty but proved a good result for Renault.  This result was helped by HASS driver Romain Grosjean hitting the Sauber of Charles Leclerc in the first lap of the race at turn 12, which dropped the Sauber of Leclerc who eventually retired as so did the HASS driver. 8th place went to the Force India of Esteban Ocon who kept clear of problems, 9th for the second HASS of Kevin Magnussen and 10th to the 2nd Force India of Sergio Perez for the last point.

People really enjoyed the Iceman´s win, specially Ferrari, who ends the domination of Mercedes at the American racetrack.