(Reuters) – Red Bull’s Formula One championship leader Max Verstappen held off title rival Lewis Hamilton to win the U.S. Grand Prix by 1.3 seconds on Sunday and go 12 points clear with five races remaining.
Mercedes’s seven-times world champion Hamilton had to settle for second but gained a bonus point for fastest lap. Red Bull’s Mexican Sergio Perez finished third in front of a crowd of 140,000 spectators at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by Christian Radnedge)
