Max Verstappen secured his first victory since July's Hungarian Grand Prix, dominating the Sprint Race at Circuit of The Americas to end a nine-race win drought. He held off a charging Lando Norris for most of the race, finishing ahead of Carlos Sainz who capitalized on Norris's late mistake.
The victory boosted Verstappen ’s confidence in the car since he has not won any of the last nine F1 races – eight grands prix and one sprint.“It was not too bad, feels a bit like old times!” said Verstappen , “I’m very happy with today. I think of course if you look at the whole race, Ferrari was also very quick, but I think for us finally we were racing again."
The Dutch driver kept Lando Norris of McLaren, at bay for 18 out of the 19 sprint laps at the Circuit of the Americas.“Normally in the race we’re always looking back behind us, but now we could just do our own race and we had good pace.” Added the Red Bull's top driver. Verstappen is going for his fourth title in a row. He secured his pole position for Saturday's sprint race, winning by nearly four seconds ahead of Ferrari's driver Carlos Sainz.The Spaniard took advantage of Norris mistake in the first turn of the final lap and slipped behind Verstappen, securing second place.
Formula 1 returned from a four-week autumn break this week, kicking off the second race in the U.S. in Austin.
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