Toto Wolff: This weekend marks the beginning of an intense run to the top of the yr.
We’ve six races over the subsequent eight weeks, ending with the season finale in Abu Dhabi. Though we’re not in competition for the championships, there may be nonetheless lots to combat for and the chance to create a couple of highlights alongside the best way. We wish to finish this yr as strongly as doable, construct momentum for 2025, and bid farewell to Lewis in one of the simplest ways doable.
We’ve subsequently been onerous at work since Singapore analysing our efficiency and the way we are able to enhance. We deliver our ultimate replace package deal of the season to Texas and our goal is to shut the hole to the entrance. It’ll additionally present helpful info that may assist information our growth path for 2025.
The Dash format returns this weekend, and we should be at our greatest to introduce the replace package deal successfully. The Circuit of the Americas is a incredible monitor however one which caught us out final yr. Its high-speed structure, mixed with its bumpy floor, make it a problem for each the automotive and driver. It’s one we’re trying ahead to.
Reality File – United States Grand Prix
• The 2024 US Grand Prix would be the three hundredth for Mercedes in F1 for the reason that marque returned as a works crew firstly of the 2010 season.
• It’ll additionally subsequently mark the three hundredth Grand Prix for PETRONAS as our Group Title and Technical Associate.
• COTA is considered one of 9 tracks on the 2024 F1 calendar that’s absolutely 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 monitor, 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 adjustments on the entire F1 calendar.
• Drivers generate over 5G beneath braking for Flip 12, one of many greatest of the season – a driver weighing 70kg will expertise round 350kg of centrifugal drive after 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 monitor.
• Mercedes has 5 wins at COTA – greater than every other 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.
