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The Circuit

The final six-race run to the end of the 2025 F1 season starts in Austin, Texas, with the United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA).

Round 19 of the season will be the second of three races to take place in America this year, with the grid set to return to Las Vegas in November, having already visited Miami in May.

In total, six different racetracks have hosted the US Grand Prix since it first appeared on the calendar in 1959. This year will mark the 46th edition of the event.

Watkins Glen (20) has hosted the race the most times to date, followed by COTA (12), Indianapolis (8), and Phoenix (3).

Riverside and Sebring have both hosted the United States Grand Prix once.

The world-famous Indianapolis 500 ran as part of the F1 calendar for 11 seasons between 1950 and 1960, but the Motor Speedway hosted its eight US Grands Prix between 2000 and 2007 by using a mixture of the iconic banked oval and an infield section.

F1 has raced at six further venues in America since its inception in 1950, all under a different name.

COTA first appeared on the calendar in 2012 and has become the permanent home of the race ever since.

  • First GP
    2012
  • Circuit Length
    5.516km
  • Race Distance
    308.896km
  • Laps
    56

‘The Racing is Always Exciting’

“Austin is always a challenge for an F1 car because of its bumpy nature, and the drivers will feel that in their backs, too!” says Test and Reserve Driver Fred.

“You really experience the downforce at COTA, particularly in the Sector One Esses, which are a bit like Maggotts and Becketts at Silverstone.

“The racing is always exciting, and you can overtake here, which keeps the incredible Texas crowd on its feet for the whole race.”

COTA Lowdown

COTA is one of nine tracks on the 2025 F1 calendar that is fully anticlockwise, alongside Jeddah, Miami, Imola, Baku, Singapore, Interlagos, Las Vegas, and Yas Marina.

The circuit is tied with Baku for the second-most corners at any F1 2025 track, with 20, behind Jeddah (27).

The incline from the starting grid to the apex at Turn One is 134 feet, one of the highest elevation changes on the whole F1 calendar.

Drivers generate more than 5G under braking for Turn 12, one of the biggest of the season - a driver weighing 70kg will experience about 350kg of centrifugal force when they brake.

For the third year in a row, Austin will host an F1 Sprint weekend in 2025, with the shortened format returning to the calendar for the first time post-shutdown.

No driver has more wins at COTA than Lewis Hamilton, with five. Lewis also owns the record for most United States Grand Prix victories (6) after winning at Indianapolis in his rookie season.

Silver Arrows Stateside

The team has the best record of any other constructor on the grid at COTA, with five wins. Four of these came with Lewis in successive seasons between 2014 and 2017, while Valtteri also recorded a win in Austin in 2019.

And there have been further reasons to celebrate in Texas over the years.

Lewis’ United States Grand Prix results secured him his third and sixth World Championship titles in 2015 and 2019, and in 2017 the team clinched its fourth consecutive World Constructors’ crown.

At Austin in 2023, George celebrated his 100th race in F1 while with our team, some four and half years after making his debut for Williams in Australia in 2019.

The 2023 US Grand Prix was also the first time F1 ACADEMY appeared on the support bill, before joining permanently at the start of the following season. George was on hand to present the trophies on the podium post-race in Texas.

Did You Know?

The 2025 United States Grand Prix will be the 500th for Mercedes-Benz as the official F1 Safety Car, having debuted at the 1996 Australian Grand Prix and first been deployed at the 1996 Belgian Grand Prix.

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