2014 United States Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 17 of 19 in the 2014 Formula One season | |||
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| Date | November 2, 2014 | ||
| Official name | 2014 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix | ||
| Location |
Circuit of the Americas Travis County, Austin, Texas |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 5.513 km (3.426 mi) | ||
| Distance | 56 laps, 308.405 km (191.634 mi) | ||
| Weather | Partly cloudy with temperatures reaching a maximum of 24 degrees during the day. | ||
| Attendance | 107,778 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:36.067 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Sebastian Vettel
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Red Bull Racing-Renault | |
| Time | 1:41.379 on lap 50 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Mercedes | ||
| Second | Mercedes | ||
| Third | Red Bull Racing-Renault | ||
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The 2014 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Circuit of the Americas on November 2, 2014. The race was the seventeenth round of the 2014 season, and marked the third running of the United States Grand Prix in Austin, and thirty-sixth time the race has been run as a round of the World Championship.
As both the Marussia and Caterham teams were under administration, they did not participate in the Grand Prix, and thus the race featured a field of only 18 cars. This is the smallest field entered into a Grand Prix event since the 2005 Monaco Grand Prix. The race was won by Lewis Hamilton.Jean-Éric Vergne scored his last ever World Championship points at this race.
Pirelli brought their white-banded Medium compound tyre as its prime selection and yellow-banded Soft as the option, as opposed to the previous two meetings in Austin where the Hard and Medium compounds were selected.
Caterham and Marussia were each granted permission to miss the Grand Prix after both teams were afflicted with long-term financial problems and placed into administration. With the grid limited to eighteen cars, the qualifying procedure was revised. Instead of the six slowest cars being eliminated after the first and second rounds, only the slowest four were eliminated. The third and final round of qualifying remained unchanged to determine the final top ten spots on the grid.
The FIA elected to retain the two DRS zones they used at the previous year's event, with the first being along the backstretch between turns 11 and 12, and the second on the start-finish straight between turns 20 and 1.
After both Friday practice sessions, the FIA tested for the first time this new system, which is in response to minimising the risk of serious accidents and injuries, such as those suffered by Jules Bianchi at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix. Its aim is to force drivers to reduce their speed by about 35% in an accident zone, with the aid of a dashboard display. Drivers have agreed it is a worthwhile system that, however, requires refinement for further testing at subsequent Grands Prix before introduction in 2015.
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