FOX Sports SD (K+) | Formula One 2014 Main Race : United States Grand Prix (P1) - video Dailymotion

3/11/2014

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00:00Very steep slope up to 41 meters high above the lowest part of this track.

00:06And again into turn one and we're away there for the formation lap.

00:09It's the soft compound tires of the top 10 cars.

00:13And every car except Nico Hulkenberg, who starts on the medium compound tire.

00:18Sebastian Vettel, who also starts on the medium tire from the pit lane.

00:22And Danny Kvyat as well down at Toro Rosso.

00:25Three, Martin, going against the conventional wisdom that it's best to start on a faster tire here.

00:30Yes, well they're out of position, aren't they?

00:31They've got to do a contrary strategy.

00:35And I think they'll do that, certainly I think Vettel will do that again at his first stop.

00:39We're expecting it to be a two-stop race.

00:41Three stops is three or four seconds faster.

00:44But it will mean you've got to start overtaking cars that are two-stopping.

00:48So you can lose a lot of time, not blow up the wrist.

00:51So as long as they can keep their tires intact, that's what we expect in something.

00:55There's the Drivers' Championship there.

00:57Hamilton got a 17-point lead over Nico Hulkenberg as well.

01:00And he must have stacked the two.

01:03Oh dear, look at that.

01:04We set contact with a hefty impact there for Sergio Perez as well.

01:09And Perez trying to go around the outside of Suterland, caught him a bit unawares.

01:15There's a lot of debris down there.

01:17It could be very well to make his way through.

01:20This is what it looked like on Danny Kvyat's on board.

01:22A lot of debris on the track as well.

01:27Punches are a great risk.

01:30And especially as they've now gone in a course and put fresh Hulkenberg.

01:34Just pulling over to the side there, Martin.

01:35Just hanging out of an air pit.

01:38He's not in the line of fire there, Hulkenberg's car.

01:40And Alonso, I think, quite easy to get ahead and move himself up into ninth place then.

01:54I mentioned Sebastian Vettel and Roman Grosjean.

01:57Here it is.

01:57Nicely done by the reigning world champion.

02:04And of course won't be going to the FIA Gala in December to lift the Champions Trophy this year.

02:09Nice move, nonetheless, at a rare moment.

02:16Altery Bottas in fifth, but he's finally got the job done in terms of getting past Sebastian Vettel.

02:21Right.

02:22So how's Vettel going to get through?

02:24Around the outside of turns two then.

02:26So he's gone and not quite all four wheels up.

02:29That's why all the dust.