2026 U.S. Grand Prix results: Antonelli wins in Austin

Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli won the U.S. Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin on Sunday (Oct. 25), the 18th of 23 races on the 2026 Formula 1 calendar. The Italian started from pole and finished the 56 laps in 1:35:16,650, 13,078 seconds ahead of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, who started fourth. Red Bull's Max Verstappen completed the podium, 17,485 seconds behind the winner. The 25 points took Antonelli to 365 in the championship and gave him a 123-point lead over his Mercedes teammate George Russell.

How the race unfolded

Antonelli took pole with a 1:34,035 in Saturday qualifying, ahead of Verstappen (1:34,214) and Red Bull's Isack Hadjar, of France (1:34,250). According to pit-stop data from Jolpica-F1, an open database of Formula 1 results, Antonelli made a single stop, on lap 24, that took 23,594 seconds.

Leclerc gained two places from the grid and also set the fastest lap of the race, a 1:37,976 on lap 42. He stopped twice, on laps 15 and 39. Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton started fifth and finished fourth, 18,515 seconds behind Antonelli, which put two Ferraris in the top five. McLaren's Lando Norris started eighth, stopped once, on lap 16, and crossed the line fifth, 30,521 seconds back.

Hadjar, who had started third, slipped to sixth. McLaren's Oscar Piastri held the seventh place he had on the grid. Russell started sixth and finished eighth, scoring 4 points after a single stop on lap 22. Racing Bulls' Liam Lawson was ninth and took 2 points; Alpine's Pierre Gasly collected the last point in 10th.

Final classification: the top 10

• 1st Andrea Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes), started 1st, 25 points
• 2nd Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), started 4th, 18 points
• 3rd Max Verstappen (Red Bull), started 2nd, 15 points
• 4th Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari), started 5th, 12 points
• 5th Lando Norris (McLaren), started 8th, 10 points
• 6th Isack Hadjar (Red Bull), started 3rd, 8 points
• 7th Oscar Piastri (McLaren), started 7th, 6 points
• 8th George Russell (Mercedes), started 6th, 4 points
• 9th Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls), started 9th, 2 points
• 10th Pierre Gasly (Alpine), started 10th, 1 point

The Brazilian driver, the retirements and those left behind

Brazil's Gabriel Bortoleto, of Audi, started 21st and finished 13th, one lap behind the winner. He also set the second-fastest lap of the race, a 1:38,393. His Audi teammate Nico Hülkenberg was 11th, the first driver outside the points, and Racing Bulls' Arvid Lindblad was 12th.

Three drivers did not finish. Cadillac's Valtteri Bottas stopped on lap 48, Alpine's Franco Colapinto on lap 35 and Haas's Oliver Bearman on lap 24. The data RaisLife uses records only the retirement, not the cause. Nineteen drivers were classified, eight of them a lap down, from Lindblad (12th) to Sergio Pérez (19th, of Cadillac).

Championship: Antonelli leads by 123 points

According to the Jolpica-F1 standings updated after the race, Antonelli leads with 365 points and 9 wins in 18 races. Russell is second with 242, followed by Hamilton (241), Verstappen (236) and Leclerc (233). Norris, the 2025 champion, is sixth with 211, and Piastri is seventh with 144.

The title is not yet settled. Five races remain, none with a sprint, so 125 points are still available in theory, just two more than Antonelli's lead over Russell. By RaisLife's calculation, if the gap to second place is still above 100 points after the Mexico City Grand Prix on Sunday (Nov. 1), which starts at 5 p.m. Brasília time (converted from the UTC time in the calendar), the four races left after that (100 points) will not be enough for anyone to catch him. The Brazilian Grand Prix, the 20th round, at Interlagos, takes place on Sunday, Nov. 8, at 2 p.m. Brasília time.

In the constructors' standings, Mercedes has 607 points to Ferrari's 474. Red Bull and McLaren are tied on 355, and Racing Bulls are fifth with 102.

Sources

• Jolpica-F1 (Ergast), U.S. Grand Prix results
• Jolpica-F1, U.S. Grand Prix qualifying
• Jolpica-F1, U.S. Grand Prix pit stops
• Jolpica-F1, drivers' standings
• Jolpica-F1, constructors' standings
• Jolpica-F1, 2026 calendar and race times
• Jolpica-F1, 2025 drivers' standings
• Formula 1, official 2026 calendar
• RaisLife, U.S. Grand Prix page

Text by Rai, RaisLife's virtual reporter (artificial intelligence), with automated editorial review. Data: raislife.com/formula-1.