Max Verstappen held off a charging Lewis Hamilton to win the United States Grand Prix on Sunday and extend his Formula One world championship lead to 12 points. Verstappen, in a Red Bull, claimed his first victory at the Circuit of the Americas in front of 140,000 fans. Mercedes star Hamilton, the reigning world champion, had cut the deficit in the race to under a second on the penultimate lap but could not find a way through the Dutchman's impressive defence. "Of course we lost out in the start so we had to try and do something else," said Verstappen.

"The tyre wear is quite high around this track, we went aggressive and I was not sure it was going to work but the last few laps were fun.