2025 F1 United States GP Race - As it happened

Oliver Bearman has a half-spin after being caught out on the apex of Turn 14 by a defending Yuki Tsunoda

The Briton gets close to the Red Bull but the early braking forces the Haas over the inside grass in avoidance and spits out facing the wrong way

Tsunoda is delayed but not affected as he continues in seventh, while Bearman is lucky to collect it back up with the sacrifice of just a single spot to Hulkenberg

Leader Max Verstappen is in the pits and 2.6s later he's back on his way. Russell also pits

Norris pits from second place and he resumes back out behind Leclerc... he's got it all to do again, but he does have much fresher soft tyres this time

Hamilton pits from third - resumes in sixth behind Leclerc and a yet-to-pit Hulkenberg.

Piastri remains behind, the gap to Hamilton 3.4s

As Russell looms, Piastri comes in to take on a used set of softs - will Mercedes react on the next lap? The pair are battling over fifth

Russell has commented that Piastri 'looks slow' but he's been unable to quite get into that crucial one-second zone to pick up DRS. He's closer now than he has been for a while though - more trouble for Piastri brewing?

Norris hasn't been able to make any in-roads into Verstappen's lead but he is matching the Dutchman

Leclerc, meanwhile, is making solid progress back up the order - he's just passed Bearman for seventh but he is evidently protecting those mediums if they are to go to the end rather than steaming in purple sectors

All eyes on Leclerc, who has nice fresh mediums on his wagon - can he recover the ground on Norris to get the undercut when the McLaren pits?

Watching through fingers time for Ferrari as Lewis Hamilton closes right up on Charles Leclerc through T12 to T15.

They come VERY close to touching as the medium shod Hamilton battles the worn soft shod Leclerc.

Leclerc pits at the end of the lap though, releasing Hamilton into third place. Medium tyres for Leclerc - he resumes in ninth

To his credit, Leclerc is driving faultlessly, more so when you consider his soft tyres are probably quite second hand now.

That said, the left front of Norris' McLaren looks... wait for it... 'tyred'

Norris has had his third strike, one more track limit warning and it's a penalty - only 35 laps to go without making a mistake. Eek!

Another glance down the outside of Turn 12 for Norris, he tries to hang it around the outside of Turn 13 but Leclerc runs him out of road.

Verstappen's lead is now 9secs

Update on championship leader Oscar Piastri

Not much to say at the moment - the Aussie is 4.2s behind Hamilton, with Russell stabilised around 1.5secs behind him.

If (and it's a big if) it stays like with Norris third and Piastri fifth, the gap at the top of the table comes down to 17 points

Max Verstappen - remember him?

He's a dot on the horizon, some seven seconds in the lead over Leclerc now - even if Norris gets by in the next couple of laps, is might take a safety car to bring him back into this fight

Two track limit warnings for Norris already... three strikes and you're, well not out, but penalised

Meanwhile, Lewis Hamilton is quietly squeezing the gap down to Norris ahead

Some quality driving as Norris and Leclerc go side-by-side through Turn 11-12-13 but Leclerc survives to fight another lap

Norris inches into Leclerc DRS range, a gap he slashes further with the benefit of that very thing on the run down the back straight...

Can Leclerc resist the McLaren as he did earlier in the race

Verstappen is picking up the pace again to move more than four seconds clear of Leclerc, as Norris nudges closer to the Ferrari driver's DRS zone

That VSC has had the interest effect of spreading the field out with margins that were either side of a second for a lot of drivers stretching out to nearer 1.5s/2s

Verstappen leads Leclerc by 2.9s

Leclerc leads Norris by 1.8s

Norris leads Hamilton by 1.3s

Hamilton leads Piastri bay - 2.2s

Both McLaren drivers are complaining about their front left, incidentally, while it is worth mentioning now that Leclerc is on soft tyres

Chastening day for Williams so far after such a strong Sprint that had Sainz and Albon in third and sixth.

Sainz is out after his collision with Antonelli, while Albon spun on lap one after making contact with Bortoleto, while he has already ditched his hard tyres amid complaints they lacked grip

Somehow Norris has slipped 1.9secs behind Leclerc during that VSC - that's about one second further behind than he was before the VSC

With two drivers dropping out of the top ten, time for an update

1- Verstappen

2- Leclerc

3- Norris

4- Hamilton

5- Piastri

6- Russell

7- Tsunoda

8- Bearman

9- Hulkenberg

10- Alonso

Sainz attempts to go inside at the tricky multi-line Turn 15 left-hander but Antonelli would swing across and find a Williams at his rear... and crunch

Sainz is out and Antonelli is running at the back of the field now

Norris needs to get past Leclerc very soon as the Ferrari is haemorrhaging time to Verstappen up ahead - already three seconds after four laps.

He's pulled alongside down the back straight a couple of times, but Leclerc has him covered