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The 2023 United States Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Lenovo United States Grand Prix 2023) was a Formula One motor race that took place on October 22, 2023, at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, United States.
Various efforts were made to try to bring the race to the New York City region. In March 2010, Ecclestone announced plans to bring a Formula One race to New York City for the 2012 season. Ecclestone was quoted as saying the race would take place across the Hudson River in New Jersey , with the Manhattan skyline overlooking the circuit. [ 52 ]
The event was held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, for the twelfth time in the circuit's history, across the weekend of October 18–20. [2] The Grand Prix was the nineteenth round of the 2024 Formula One World Championship and the 45th running of the United States Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship. [3]
The race was run at a new venue (which now also hosts MotoGP, and the NASCAR Cup series) named Circuit of the Americas. The 2012 event was the first United States Grand Prix held since 2007. A second race, called the Grand Prix of America, was to take place in Weehawken, New Jersey, designed to give a view of the New York City skyline.
F1 now returns to Vegas for the first time in 41 years for a 50-lap race around the picturesque 3.8 mile, 17-turn circuit. The race has a 10-year contract and will take place under the lights on ...
The expansion into Asia and America has been a recent occurrence. Of the 20 circuits that hosted a Grand Prix in 2012 , nearly half were not on the calendar before 1999 . [ 6 ] The Autodromo Nazionale Monza has hosted the most World Championship races; the only season it did not host a race was in 1980 , when the Italian Grand Prix was held at ...
The race was the 19th round of the 2022 Formula One World Championship and the 51st running of the United States Grand Prix, the 43rd time the race was run as a World Championship event since the inaugural 1950 season, and the tenth time a World Championship round was held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.
Qualifying started at 16:00 local time (UTC−05:00) on Saturday, October 23. [14] The surface temperature was around 37 °C (99 °F). [clarification needed] [18] Before qualifying, Red Bull made alterations to the rear wings of their cars after a crack was found on one of them. [19] Verstappen qualified on pole. [10]