Five Things to Know About the 2025 United States GP

We're going halfway around the world to Austin from our point-scoring Singapore trip for the 2025 United States Grand Prix.

The Circuit of the Americas awaits Alex and Carlos for a packed weekend of Texan action.

After a week back at Grove, we're ready for our busy trip across the Atlantic Ocean and we've prepared five things to get you up to speed.

It's been quite the run for Atlassian Williams Racing since returning after the summer break.

Alex and Carlos have both hauled in points in two races apiece from the four rounds we've had since hitting the track after three weekends off.

Albono scored P5 and P7 at Zandvoort and Monza, while Carlos grabbed a P10 in Singapore and took to the Baku podium with that memorable P3 finish.

It's the second time in 2025 that we've scored four consecutive top-10 Grand Prix finishes, after both drivers scored points between the Saudi Arabian GP and our Monaco trip.

If we continue that form in Texas it'll mark the first time we've brought home points in five successive race weekends since 2017, when Felipe Massa and Lance Stroll ended the season with nine consecutive points-scoring finishes.

Continuing with the successive weekend theme is another appearance of our ever-popular Fan Zone.

Atlassian Williams Racing will take over 800 Congress in Austin for the fourth consecutive season to say hello to all our fans who are in the city just one race after it wowed everyone in Singapore.

Alex Albon, James Vowles, and Jenson Button will be appearing to say hello and answer your questions with each appearance also livestreamed in case you can't make it.

We'll of course have all the activities and fun you've come to expect from our award-winning Fan Zone experiences. That means Sim Racing, Komatsu’s Haul Truck Simulator, Kraken’s Reaction Ring, a Pit Stop Challenge, the FW47 show car, Williams merch, and so much more.

Find out everything you need to know about the 2025 Austin Fan Zone here and we'll see you at 800 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78701!

The United States has welcomed F1 all around the country and has hosted multiple races under different names, such as the Miami GP, Las Vegas GP, Caesars Palace GP, Detroit GP, and the United States GP West to name a few.

It's at that latter race that F1 has had a curious quirk of going a little longer than the usual race distance due to a displaced finish line that was away from the start line.

Held at Long Beach, California between 1976 and 1983, the track saw the drivers lining up behind the sweeping right-hander that led to Shoreline Drive and the Queen's Hairpin.

However, the finish line was half a lap later at Ocean Boulevard, meaning the drivers had to navigate an extra few corners to finish the race at what is technically 80-and-a-half laps (although 1982 was five laps shorter).

The United States featured in F1 from the first official World Championship season, but the stateside racing came at the famed Indy 500.

Forming one of seven rounds, the trip over the Atlantic Ocean was the only race to take place that wasn't on European soil.

Although the points scored went towards the championship tally, none of the regular drivers chose to head to the USA for the race, and it might've changed the title if they had, especially in 1950, 1956, 1958, and 1959.

The 500 continued occupying what was essentially an honorary position in the season until 1960, by which time Sebring and Watkins Glen had started to take the US GP moniker with the regular drivers joining in.

It might not have had a huge impact in F1, but a record does stand for those Indy 500 events. They boast the longest race distance in the sport's history, with those Indianapolis rounds of racing going for 500 miles.

The 20 corners of COTA place the Texan circuit high in the list of tracks we visit in terms of turns.

It's well-known that the Circuit of the Americas takes influence from circuits including Silverstone, Istanbul Park, and Hockenheim for its design, and those corners all combine for twenty twists around Austin.

That puts it in joint P2 alongside Baku and Spa for the most corners at a track in 2025, with the trio far behind Jeddah's 27 turns.

COTA does pack those corners more frequently than any of these others, however, with the 20 coming in just 5.513 km of tarmac.

And Texans can boast their state do it bigger than others, with the Austin-based circuit beating out Miami (19 corners) and Las Vegas (17 corners) in the triple-whammy of races on American soil that we have right now.