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United States Results

Grandprix's mach wins for the second race in a row, moving him into the lead for the Bernie medal.
Cliptheapex have extended their lead to 32 points over not606. With three races to go and a maximum 129 points available, five forums are still in contention for the title.
Stairs places fifth for sportsbabble .

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Pos nickname       forum   zdkf1 points  forum points
1  mach            grandprix    32            25
2  soccerman17     cliptheapex  31            18
3  manutddaredevil ja606        31            15
4  andykarter      f1world      30            12
5  stairs          sportsbabble 29            10
6  lawrence        grandprix    28             8
7  bls             not606       28             6
8  atis            f1technical  28             4
9  dreggsf1        f1onboard    28             2
10 redfrog         f1world      27             1

scores for also rans from sportsbabble:

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25 sco

League table
Pos_Forum__________Points
1___cliptheapex_____279
2___not606__________247
3___ja606___________242
4___f1world_________237
5___grandprix_______231
6___sportsbabble____141
7___f1technical_____105
8___garagistasf1_____72
9___f1onboard________45
10__v2_______________17

Title race:



Individual championship
Not606's jb still leads the way on 614 points.
Bls, also from not606, remains second on 599 points.
Redfrog from f1world stays in third place on 591 points.
The best player from sportsbabble is sco in 18th place on 520 points.


Quali trophy
Sardaor from cliptheapex is the only person on zdkf1 to earn points for their pole time guess, moving him up to second place in the fight for the Trulli Trophy:

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pos user           forum     points
1  bls             not606      13
2  sardaor         cliptheapex 13
3  redfrog         f1world     13
4  pdk             f1world     12
5  greenlantern101 cliptheapex 12
6  andykarter      f1world     11
7  chelseamf       ja606       11
8  jb              not606      10
9  pob             f1technical 10
10 atis            f1technical  9

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Race recap:
A great race, probably race of the season with many of the drivers performing brilliantly, so go watch the highlights if you haven't seen it already!
A hurricane meant there was little running in practice and qualifying was postponed until Sunday morning and even that was cut short because of the weather.

The rain eased enough for the cars to start the race on intermediates. Rosberg was on pole but Hamilton forced his way past at the first corner, dropping Rosberg down to fourth. The red bulls coped best with the tricky conditions with Ricciardo even taking the lead. Meanwhile, the Ferraris of Vettel and Raikkonen were coming through the field after taking grid penalties for new engines.
As the track dried the Red Bulls began to struggle for pace. The battle for the win was between Vettel and the Mercedes drivers of Rosberg and Hamilton. There were several safety car periods which led to different strategy possibilities, although overall they probably didn't interfere too much with the final result. It looked as if Rosberg would take the win until an unusual mistake sent him off the track gifted Hamilton the win and sealing Hamilton's third title. Rosberg just held on to second from Vettel.
Verstappen was a great fourth again for Toro Rosso with some more amazing overtaking by the teenager. Teammate Sainz also had a good race coming from the back of the grid to seventh.
The McLarens had a competitive race with the rain meaning their engine disadvantage was less of a problem, Button placing a good sixth, but Alonso dropped out of the points with power problems towards the end of the race.
Perez was a good fifth for Force India, his teammate Hulkenburg retired after an uncharacteristic mistake when trying to overtake Riccirado, forcing Hulkenburg to retire and damaging Riccairdo's Red Bull. Ricciardo eventually finished a disappointing tenth and Kvyat in the other Red Bull crashed out.
The other points scorers were Maldonado in eighth for Lotus and Nasr ninth for Sauber.