Toto Wolff: This weekend marks the beginning of an intense run to the tip of the 12 months.
We now have six races over the following eight weeks, ending with the season finale in Abu Dhabi. Though we aren’t in competition for the championships, there’s nonetheless loads to battle for and the chance to create a couple of highlights alongside the best way. We wish to finish this 12 months as strongly as potential, construct momentum for 2025, and bid farewell to Lewis in one of the simplest ways potential.
We now have due to this fact been arduous at work since Singapore analysing our efficiency and the way we will enhance. We deliver our closing replace bundle of the season to Texas and our purpose is to shut the hole to the entrance. It’s going to additionally present helpful data that may assist information our growth route for 2025.
The Dash format returns this weekend, and we must be at our greatest to introduce the replace bundle successfully. The Circuit of the Americas is a unbelievable observe however one which caught us out final 12 months. Its high-speed structure, mixed with its bumpy floor, make it a problem for each the automobile and driver. It’s one we’re wanting ahead to.
Truth File – United States Grand Prix
• The 2024 US Grand Prix would be the three hundredth for Mercedes in F1 because the marque returned as a works crew initially of the 2010 season.
• It’s going to additionally due to this fact mark the three hundredth Grand Prix for PETRONAS as our Group Title and Technical Accomplice.
• COTA is one in every of 9 tracks on the 2024 F1 calendar that’s totally anti-clockwise, alongside Jeddah, Miami, Imola, Baku, Singapore, Interlagos, Las Vegas and Yas Marina.
• It’s tied with Baku for the second-most corners on any F1 2024 observe, with 20, behind Jeddah (27).
• The incline from the beginning grid to the apex at Flip One is 134 ft, one of many highest elevation modifications on the entire F1 calendar.
• Drivers generate over 5G underneath braking for Flip 12, one of many greatest of the season – a driver weighing 70kg will expertise round 350kg of centrifugal drive once they brake.
• Nobody has extra wins at COTA than Lewis Hamilton (5). Lewis additionally clinched his third (2015) and sixth (2019) F1 titles on the observe.
• Mercedes has 5 wins at COTA – greater than another Constructor. Lewis has 4 of these, whereas Valtteri Bottas additionally has one US GP win, coming in 2019.
• In 2024, COTA will host the fourth of six F1 Dash races through the 2024 season.
