Winners and losers from F1's 2026 United States Grand Prix
All eyes were on if Formula 1 would have a new youngest ever champion after the United States Grand Prix, and it won't - yet - but that was not for a lack of a stellar performance from runaway points leader Kimi Antonelli. Naturally, the wait to see if we'd have a new champion distracted from action through the rest of the field. So here's our pick of winners and losers up and down the grid on Sunday at the Circuit of the Americas. For all the consideration of whether Mercedes's rivals messed their US GP strategies up, the counterargument says the Mercedes-Antonelli combination was just too good on the day at Austin. And it certainly served to banish a great deal of doubt about the effectiveness of the Mercedes upgrade, following its inconclusive start to life at Sepang and in Singapore. It's remarkable to think that the previous triple-header marked Antonelli's joint-longest run of the…
