Round 18 · 23–25 Oct 2026Upcoming
United States Grand Prix 2026Circuit of the Americas, Austin, USA. Three practice sessions, Qualifying and the Grand Prix. Session times, live stream, weather, results and circuit guide.
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Practice 1
29d 13:43:12Weather in Austin
Austin
Photo: Zach Catanzareti · CC BY 2.0
Circuit of the Americas, known as COTA, hosts the United States Grand Prix in south-eastern Travis County, near Austin, Texas, in the United States. Opened in 2012, it was the first circuit in the country purpose-built for Formula 1. The layout was conceived by promoter Tavo Hellmund and former motorcycle world champion Kevin Schwantz, with Hermann Tilke and architects HKS completing the design.
The anti-clockwise lap begins with a steep climb to the broad, hairpin-like Turn 1, followed by fast esses modelled on Silverstone's Maggotts, Becketts and Chapel. After the Turn 11 hairpin, a long back straight leads into a slower, stadium-style section inspired by Hockenheim, before a multi-apex sequence based on Istanbul Park's famous Turn 8. The circuit rises and falls by around 40 metres.
What to watch for: The uphill braking zone into Turn 1 and the long back straight into Turn 12 offer the best overtaking chances, while the mix of high- and low-speed corners makes set-up a compromise.
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