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17 Nov 2013 Austin, Circuit of The Americas
Turn 1 is a fantastic vantage point because you’re sitting on top of a hill and can watch the cars coming towards you along the start-finish straight. It’s a good overtaking point and the entry to the corner is blind for the drivers, so there’s bound to be a bit of action.
Turn 1: a steep uphill approach, a blind entry and the need for a good exit make this a very demanding corner.
Turns 3-9: lots of fast changes of direction. Like Becketts at Silverstone, only longer.
Turn 12: the end of the longest straight on the lap, so it’s here that the most overtaking takes place.
Turn 17: it’s like Turn 10 in India. A long double-apex right-hander, through which you can really feel the car working underneath you.
| 2012 winner | Lewis Hamilton |
| Mark’s place | Ret |
| Race date | 17 Nov 2013 |
| Circuit name | Circuit of The Americas |
| No. of laps | 56 |
| Circuit length | 5.513 km |
| Race distance | 308.405 km |
| Lap record | 1:39.347 – S Vettel (2012) |
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AS A MATTER OF FACT…
- Mark started last year’s inaugural US Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas from third place. He retired from the race with an alternator issue.
- The 5.516km Circuit of the Americas is the first purpose-built F1 track in North America. It’s being built in an area called Wandering Creek (sounds a bit Australian?), south east of the Texan capital Austin.
- Red Bull Racing were the first F1 team to complete a lap of the track when David Coulthard drove the team’s show car around the proposed layout in 2011. “It looks great,” said DC, “but when there’s some asphalt down it should be a lot easier!”
- Alan Jones was the first Australian to win the US Grand Prix, when he won at Watkins Glen in 1980 and Long Beach in ’81. Mark’s best-ever result in the United States Grand Prix was seventh at Indianapolis in 2007
- The United States was back on the F1 calendar last year for the first time since 2007.
- Austin calls itself the “Live Music Capital of the World”. How apt that it will be reverberating to the noise of F1 V8s from 15-17 November 2013!
- This year is the first time for six years that F1 hasn’t welcomed a new race on the calendar. In 2007 the new venue was Fuji; in ’08 it was Valencia and Singapore; in ’09 it was Yas Marina; in ’10 it was Korea; in ’11 it was India and last year it is the Circuit of the Americas.
Comments
Mike
POSTED November 18th, 2012
Best wishes for Austin, Mark – from your fans in Sarawak, Borneo – Land of the Hornbill
Lesley
POSTED November 17th, 2012
Good Luck for Austin on Sunday Mark. Give it all you’ve got! Xx
Jill
POSTED November 13th, 2012
All the best Mark, hope you have a great race, good luckx
Geoff
POSTED November 10th, 2012
Good luck in Austin! I hope it goes well for you and all of F1, it’s great to have a race in the States again.
bruce
POSTED November 08th, 2012
Should be a great race, the yanks will put a good show on and this venue is on my ‘bucket list, for next year. So I will see you racing, hopefully.
Joyce
POSTED October 16th, 2012
I would love to go and see this race live, but anyway, it will be fantastic driving on a brand new circuit. Good luck,
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Good luck Mark! You can win this one!