US GRAND PRIX 2021

This race felt like a really pivotal moment in which Max has now proven to the world beyond a doubt that he is, in every way, capable and worthy of the title "world champion". Hamilton and Mercedes threw everything they could at him this weekend, and still, Max won.

I am thrilled that Max won in America for the first time!! This is so much better than that time when they kicked him out of the cool down room on a technicality and said he wouldn't get a podium. That's a much-thought-about F1 memory I have.

I always try to watch as much of the US Grand Prix coverage live as I can since it's my home race. Unfortunately, I have a lot of problems with the way America is choosing to portray itself, but I am focusing on how much I am celebrating Mac winning here, especially when there was soooo much talk about how it's historically always been a Mercedes track.

Another standout moment to me was when Perez got involved in the scuffle between Max and Lewis at the start, but, seeing that Max was now behind him in the aftermath, yielded to him so that Max could have the best chance to go ahead and fight for the championship. I love Sergio Perez and we should keep him for as long as we possibly can. He is a treasure.

Free Practice 1

- wow it’s packed!!

- First time the reporters can be back in the pit lane in a long time

- It’s super hot out

- Perez is first out on track

- Apparently they have resurfaced the track to improve it but who knows if this will be better, embarrassing for us

- Alo goes out and immediately Alpine gets on the radio and tells him to stop the car and it’s really dramatic because he has stopped his blue car on the blue part of the Texas flag on track

- So there’s a red flag for Alo basically immediately

- Turns out something is dripping out of his car like it’s fuel dripping out so that’s concerning

- Charles has a spin into the gravel but gets away with it and is able to take it back to the pit without any real damage

- Apparently Vettel Russell and Bottas are taking engine penalties again which is very suspicious about Bot because he already has one over and so I think they’re trying to bluff Red Bull that Lewis would need another engine too

- I think they have Alex Albon in to coach Yuki

- Oops one of the Haas turns into Perez

- Kimi has an off

Free Practice 2

- there’s already 120,000 fans there on Friday!! And there’s going to be 140,000 fans there on race day!! Love it!!

- Hamilton pushed Max off a corner and then Max came back up the straight racing him head to head and then gave it back to Hamilton and laughed and said “stupid idiot” and I could not agree more. How dare Hamilton

Free Practice 3

- Alonso is going to take a rebuild engine penalty too

- Lots of people slipping around suddenly halfway through for no obvious reason

- This qualifying is going to be brutal with track limits cause there are things being deleted everywhere

Qualifying

- one of the Haas got majorly in Seb’s way in Q1 and surprise surprise it’s Mazepin

- Gio has a spin

- Out in Q1: Stroll, Latifi, raikkonen, lil Schu and Mazepin

- Oh noooo at the last minute GR has his time deleted

- Out in Q2: Ocon, Vettel, Gio, Alo and Russell

- With five minutes before the end of Q3, Max puts a fab lap to the top and then SERGIO PUTS IN A TOP LAP and the crowd roars!! Awesome!!

- MAX ON POLE AHHHHHHHHH THANK GOD

- Hamilton in second even though he tried to get pole back but Max stole it back again and then Perez in third!! Awesome!!

- So proud of Max for pole in the USA

- Charles starts 4th!

Race

- well this is a new low for the United States as far as pre race shows go. But at least Martin’s grid walk is back

- Hamilton gets a good start and pushes Max off and takes the lead so good thing the pre race show already set the bar as low as possible

- Max would have lost 2 places if Perez had not yielded to Max to let him go through to second to help the championship battle

- Stroll and Latifi hit each other in the back of the field and spin around to the back

- Ocon also got clipped by an alpha Romeo at the start

- There was some wiiiiild Ferrari vs McLaren stuff in the first lap

- Latifi basically almost hit six in on the way out of the pits, what is he doing today

- 11/56 Max pits early and first to do the undercut

- 14/56 Max has done it and undercut hamilton for the lead and everyone is cheering as he goes by!!

- Gasly reports a suspension problem and slows down

- 16/56 Alonso does to Kimi the exact same thing that Hamilton did to Max on the opening lap and Alonso reports it to the team and the stewards are looking at it even though they said no investigation necessary on the first lap when it happened to Max of course because these stewards are

- Stewards say no investigation necessary on Alonso and Kimi

- Okay now Alonso is fighting Gio, Alonso is just going wild today hahaha

- Martin says that Gio might be an alpha Romeo salesman by this time next week if he doesn’t get busy (passing Alo) and I think that’s hilarious

- 28/56 super brief virtual safety car for a Marshall to pick up a piece of debris but it’s super short so that’s good

- Perez’s drink system is not working, poor thing!

- Max has a good second pit stop thank God

- Sainz has a five second pit stop so thank God it wasn’t Charles

- Sainz and Ricciardo have a close call

- They keep trying to hype up that Hamilton could pass Max for the lead at the end but honestly the second half of the race has gotten pretty quiet

- Ocon has to retire

- Black and white flag for track limits for Stroll

- Awwww Alonso has to retire too after all that hard racing, so both Alpines are retirees

- With two laps to go Kimi has a big spin into the gravel but keeps it going

- MAX KEEPS HAMILTON AWAY AND WINS THE US GRAND PRIX

- Double Red Bull podium!! And all the Red Bull guys got in the weird longhorn car at the end under the podium!

- This was also the post race where Simon snubbed Charles to talk to Toto and i won’t forget it