Race
F1 2025
Round 19

Verstappen takes pole to win, Tsunoda climbs to P7 from P13

us Circuit Of The Americas

Max Verstappen claimed his fifth victory of the season with a dominant pole-to-win performance, while Yuki Tsunoda fought his way up from P13 to finish P7. Liam Lawson narrowly missed out on points in P11, and Isack Hadjar finished P16 after starting from the back of the grid.

Verstappen takes pole to win, Tsunoda climbs to P7 from P13
Max Verstappen
Max Verstappen 1
Oracle Red Bull Racing
It was a perfect weekend and I think the start was key today. The pace wasn’t magic but we got a good start on the first stint and Charles got in the middle of myself and Lando which helped a lot and as soon as Lando was in clean air he was very fast. We just did the best we could and tried to manage our tyres in the best way possible even though they were overheating a bit. This performance was exactly what we need until the end of the season to fight for the title. The Team has done a great job, I’m having fun and it’s exciting for everyone. The performance of the car has been better and we need to keep the momentum going. We really maximised everything with the points and we need to continue having these perfect weekends until the end of the season. I am very happy to win again.

Yuki Tsunoda
Yuki Tsunoda 22
Oracle Red Bull Racing
Today was a great start and lap one once again, the first few laps were good, I had nice pace and managed to overtake a lot of cars. I enjoyed both races and had good confidence. I have scored points in both races this weekend so, overall, the weekend was positive. The pace today was ok, I could have maybe done a slightly better job with that, in the second stint especially. I have to keep scoring the points in the next few races and improve on the short runs in particular, as we have been struggling there. That has to be the focus now, I have to work on that and put it all together for the short run for Mexico and beyond.

Liam Lawson
Liam Lawson 30
Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team
I gave the race everything I could but didn’t have the strongest start as I was boxed at Turn 1. That place probably cost us a point, however overall the pace wasn't strong enough today. It's very hard to overtake here and Aston had control of us throughout the race by being both in front and behind. It's frustrating as there have been points available throughout the weekend which we missed out on, but we'll take our learnings into Mexico next weekend.

Isack Hadjar
Isack Hadjar 6
Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team
That was the race I expected today, starting from the back. I haven’t shown real pace so far this weekend, and our strategy was to go for a long first stint and hope for a safety car. There are a few things we need to understand with the car, we’ve been strong most weekends this year, but we had a ride issue that we need to figure out and make sure it doesn’t happen again. I still had some good battles on track and learned a lot, so there’s plenty of momentum to carry into Mexico.


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