F1 2024 United States Grand Prix LIVE: Qualifying schedule, start times and updates after the sprint race in Austin

What a nightmare for Lewis Hamilton – he has not made it through! Shocking!

The seven-time world champion is only P19, with 0.121 seconds to Lance Stroll, but his teammate George Russell is P3!

A mistake at age 12, I believe, for Lewis. My goodness…

Bottom five and out in Q1 (16-20): Albon, Colapinto, Bottas, Hamilton, Zhou

Leclerc is now on top with 1:33:241 … but here’s the interesting part.

Current bottom five (16-20): Bottas, Russell, Hamilton, Zhou, Tsunoda

Russell and Hamilton, reminder, have not set laps on fresh soft tires. He only has one chance here…

Russell and Hamilton are not on the leader board (well, at the bottom!)

Pierre Gasly is now fastest, with Max Verstappen second and Nico Hulkenberg third.

8:00 to go. Some cars still haven’t set their laps in Q1.

Norris set fast time with 1:34:029 – but was still half the field to set the first lap!

Busy on the track now, as everything is ready for the hot laps.

Here we go to the first stage of qualifying!

18 minutes and we’ll lose the five slowest drivers from the rest of qualifying…

Forget the sprint – here’s the big one before tomorrow’s grand prix!

Can Norris get some revenge on Verstappen?

We are less than 10 minutes away from qualifying at the Circuit of the Americas!

Can McLaren find some form? How about a Ferrari? Can Mercedes bring some pace to the party? Or is it Max Verstappen who is missing?

Qualifying goes live at 11pm (BST)!

The distance between the top two is now 54 points…

1. Max Verstappen – 339 points

2. Lando Norris – 285 points

3. Charles Leclerc – 250 points

4. Oscar Piastri – 237 points

5. Carlos Sainz – 197 points

6. Lewis Hamilton – 177 points

7. George Russell – 159 points

8. Sergio Perez – 144 points

9. Fernando Alonso – 62 points

10. Nico Hulkenberg – 25 points

11. Lance Stroll – 24 points

12. Yuki Tsunoda – 22 points

13. Alex Albon – 12 points

14. Daniel Ricciardo – 12 points

15. Kevin Magnussen – 8 points

16. Pierre Gasly – 8 points

17. Ollie Bearman – 7 points

18. Esteban Ocon – 5 points

19. Franco Colapinto – 4 points

20. Zhou Guanyu – 0 points

21. Logan Sargeant – 0 points

22. Valtteri Bottas – 0 points

For a sport that has struggled for 70 years to find a home across the Atlantic, Formula One’s presence in the United States has reached unprecedented heights this year. And it’s not just a nod to the three US races, in Miami, Austin and Las Vegas, or to the boom in popularity stateside – the result of the 2017 takeover of Liberty Media and Netflix’s Drive to Survive fever.

Moreover, before the US presidential election on November 5, a surprising arena for the two nominees appeared, promoted and presented themselves in a unique and increasingly attractive way for voters.

Four-time F1 world champion Vettel retires in 2022 after 16 seasons in the sport, where he raced for Red Bull, Ferrari and Aston Martin.

But next March at the Accor Stadium in Sydney, Vettel will form the German ‘super team’ alongside Schumacher – the son of seven-time F1 world champion Michael Schumacher – in the ROC Nations Cup.