Every United States Grand Prix Winner, From Sebring in 1959 to Austin in 2025

We went through formula1.com's official race results and starting grids for all 46 world-championship United States Grands Prix, from Sebring in 1959 to Austin in 2025. This article covers the United States Grand Prix itself; the Miami Grand Prix, run since 2022, and Las Vegas, since 2023, are separate races, as were Long Beach, Detroit, Dallas and Caesars Palace in the 1970s and 1980s. We counted as in our history of the Singapore Grand Prix.

Every United States Grand Prix winner, 1959 to 2025

Bruce McLaren won the first, for Cooper at Sebring, from 10th on the grid: still the furthest back any winner of the race has started, and the first win of McLaren's career. In all, 26 drivers and 11 teams have won; 21 winners started from pole and 33 from the front row.

Most wins at the United States Grand Prix

Hamilton won six: for McLaren at Indianapolis in 2007 and in Austin in 2012, then four in a row for Mercedes from 2014 to 2017. Michael Schumacher won five for Ferrari at Indianapolis, four of them in a row, and Verstappen four for Red Bull in Austin. Jim Clark and Graham Hill won three each at Watkins Glen. Four drivers won twice and 17 once.

• Teams: Ferrari 11, with seven different drivers; Lotus and McLaren 8 each; Mercedes and Red Bull 5 each; BRM 3; Tyrrell 2; Brabham, Cooper, Matra and Williams 1 each.
• Podiums: Hamilton 10, ahead of Schumacher and Verstappen with 7 each. Pole positions: Schumacher and Hamilton 4 each.
• Nationalities: British drivers have won 18 of the 46 races and German drivers 6. No American has won it.

United States Grand Prix venues: Watkins Glen, Indianapolis and COTA

Six circuits have held it in the world championship, according to Wikipedia's history of the race and formula1.com:

• Sebring, Florida (1959) and Riverside, California (1960): one race each, won by McLaren and by Stirling Moss for Lotus.
• Watkins Glen, New York (1961 to 1980): 20 races, the most, seven of them won by Lotus. Formula1.com calls the last five the USA East Grand Prix, the name used while Long Beach also held a USA West race; we count them.
• Phoenix, Arizona (1989 to 1991): three street races, all won by McLaren, two by Ayrton Senna and one by Alain Prost.
• Indianapolis (2000 to 2007): eight races, six won by Ferrari. In 2005 the seven teams on Michelin tires withdrew after the formation lap on safety grounds, the official result notes, and Schumacher won from fifth on the grid.
• Austin, Texas (since 2012): 13 races at the Circuit of the Americas, none in 2020. Mario Andretti opened the track in October 2012, and Hamilton won its first Grand Prix, Hamilton's last win for McLaren, formula1.com notes.

COTA F1 history: how often pole wins in Austin

Less often than average. The driver on pole won 6 of the 13 Grands Prix at the Circuit of the Americas, 46 percent. Across all 274 Grands Prix of the same 13 seasons, pole won 145, 53 percent, in line with the 52 percent of 518 races since 2000 in our study of pole position. The front row still counts in Austin: 11 of the 13 winners started first or second.

The exceptions: Verstappen won from sixth in 2023, when Hamilton, second on the road, and Charles Leclerc, the pole sitter, were disqualified for technical infringements, the official result shows. In 2024 Leclerc won from fourth for Ferrari, and Lando Norris, on pole for McLaren, finished fourth after a five-second penalty.

Does the United States Grand Prix winner win the championship?

Not in its first 16 years: none of the winners from 1959 to 1974 became world champion that season. The race was often the season finale then, 10 times up to 1980, and the title was frequently settled before it, Wikipedia's history notes. Niki Lauda, for Ferrari in 1975, was the first to do both, and 16 of the 30 winners from then on were champion, 53 percent. Over all 46 races that is 35 percent, while the champion won 44 percent of all Grands Prix in the same seasons.

In Austin the winner became champion 7 times in 13, 54 percent, against 51 percent for all Grands Prix of those seasons. Hamilton sealed two titles there: in 2015 by winning, 76 points clear of Sebastian Vettel with 75 left, and in 2019 by finishing second to Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas, 67 points clear of Bottas with 52 left, by our count of formula1.com's race results.

Sprint races at the Circuit of the Americas

Austin has held three sprints, from 2023 to 2025, and Verstappen won all three from sprint pole, as our study of F1 sprints found, adding the Grand Prix in 2023 and 2025. The 2026 race has no sprint: the season's six were in China, Miami, Canada, Britain, the Netherlands and Singapore, on formula1.com's sprint calendar.

American drivers at the United States Grand Prix

No American has won it in 46 world-championship races. Thirty-six American drivers have made 84 starts, and the best result is second, four times: Dan Gurney in 1961 and 1965, Richie Ginther in 1963 and Andretti in 1977.

• Pole: Andretti twice, in 1968 and in 1978, the year Andretti became world champion. Both races ended in retirement.
• Last podium: Eddie Cheever, third for Arrows at Phoenix in 1989, from 17th on the grid.
• Last points: Logan Sargeant, 10th for Williams in 2023 after the two disqualifications, the first by an American at the race since Cheever. No American has started it since, and none has raced in Formula 1 this season.

Leaving aside the Indianapolis 500, a championship round from 1950 to 1960, Americans have won one of the 72 world-championship races held in the United States: the 1977 USA West Grand Prix at Long Beach, California, by Andretti for Lotus. Andretti's 12th and last win, the 1978 Dutch Grand Prix, is the last by an American anywhere, in formula1.com's results.

The 2025 United States Grand Prix

Verstappen won both races of the weekend from pole for Red Bull. Norris and Oscar Piastri of McLaren were out of the sprint without completing a lap, the sprint result shows, and Verstappen won it ahead of George Russell. On Sunday Verstappen beat Norris by 7.959 seconds, with Leclerc third, in the official result. Norris still won the 2025 title, by two points from Verstappen.

United States Grand Prix 2026: date and session times

The 2026 race, 56 laps of the 5.513-kilometer track, is round 18 of 23 on formula1.com's calendar, from Friday, October 23, to Sunday, October 25, a week before Mexico City. Times from formula1.com's event page, in Central time at the track, Eastern time and UK time, where clocks go back an hour early on Sunday:

• Friday, October 23: practice at 12:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. CT (1:30 and 5 p.m. ET; 6:30 and 10 p.m. UK).
• Saturday, October 24: final practice at 12:30 p.m. CT (1:30 p.m. ET, 6:30 p.m. UK) and qualifying at 4 p.m. CT (5 p.m. ET, 10 p.m. UK).
• Sunday, October 25: the Grand Prix at 3 p.m. CT (4 p.m. ET, 8 p.m. UK).

Kimi Antonelli arrives 102 points ahead of Mercedes teammate Russell, 340 to 238, in the drivers' standings. With six races and 150 points left, Austin is the first race at which the title can be decided; our title-clinch scenarios explain what Antonelli needs. Dates are on the 2026 F1 schedule and points on our F1 standings.

United States Grand Prix: frequently asked questions

Who has won the most United States Grands Prix? Lewis Hamilton, with six: 2007 at Indianapolis and 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 in Austin. Michael Schumacher won five, and Ferrari, with 11, is the most successful team.

Who won the 2025 United States Grand Prix? Max Verstappen, from pole for Red Bull, ahead of Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc, on October 19, 2025. Verstappen also won the sprint.

What time is the 2026 United States Grand Prix? Sunday, October 25, at 3 p.m. Central time in Austin, 4 p.m. Eastern and 8 p.m. in the UK.

Has an American ever won the United States Grand Prix? Not since it joined the world championship in 1959; the best results are second places by Dan Gurney, Richie Ginther and Mario Andretti. Andretti's 1977 win at Long Beach, a separate race, is the only home win by an American outside the Indianapolis 500.

How this was built: the official race results, starting grids and final standings of the 46 world-championship United States Grands Prix, 1959 to 2025, the grids of all 274 Grands Prix of the 13 seasons with a race in Austin, the Austin sprints and the 2015 and 2019 results up to Austin, from formula1.com. Pole is the first slot on the official grid, teams are constructors, and American drivers are those Wikipedia's list of F1 drivers gives as American. The 2026 calendar, times and standings were checked on formula1.com on October 15, 2026.