Spherical 19 of the 2023 System One World Championship, america Grand Prix, takes place this weekend on the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. The race is the second of three U.S. races this season, and the primary of an American triple header that features races in Las Vegas and Mexico Metropolis within the coming weeks.

The Circuit of the Americas, which boasts a 3.4-mile monitor comprised of 20 corners, is without doubt one of the greatest circuits on the calendar, thanks partly to it having been designed primarily with F1 racing in thoughts. A few of its corners are paying homage to corners from previous and current F1 circuits.

There are additionally extra quick corners than Spa-Francorchamps and extra gradual corners than the Hungaroring—a mixture that makes the monitor an enormous problem for each groups and drivers.

Pirelli has nominated its mid-range tire compounds for the weekend: the C2 because the white onerous, the C3 because the yellow medium, and the C4 because the crimson gentle.

The U.S. Grand Prix is all the time a enjoyable race to observe and this 12 months there’s additional motion because of the inclusion of the Dash race on Saturday, adopted by the primary race on Sunday. This season, the Dash race has been made a standalone occasion somewhat than the qualifier for the primary race, as was beforehand the case. It nonetheless has championship factors on the desk for each drivers and groups, one thing that enabled Purple Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen to win the 2023 Drivers’ title previous to the primary race on the earlier spherical in Qatar.

Whereas the 2023 title might have been determined already, the battle for second place continues to be very a lot alive and there are nonetheless potential data to be damaged.

Verstappen additionally gained the Qatar spherical, which was his 14th win of the season. It means he is on tempo to surpass his personal file of 15 wins in a single season, which he claimed final 12 months, since there are nonetheless 5 races on the calendar. And within the battle for second place, there are actually simply 30 factors separating fellow Purple Bull driver Sergio Perez in second place and Mercedes-Benz AMG’s Lewis Hamilton in third.

Going into the weekend, Verstappen’s factors tally within the 2023 Drivers’ Championship is an unbeatable 433 factors. Perez has 224 factors and Hamilton 194 factors. Within the Constructors’ Championship, Purple Bull was named the title winner on the Japanese Grand Prix. The group at present enjoys 623 factors. Mercedes is second with 305 factors and Ferrari is third with 285 factors. Final 12 months’s winner in Texas was Verstappen, driving for Purple Bull.