Vettel's first win in the United States comes from pole position ahead of Romain Grosjean and Mark Webber. Vettel also set fastest lap with a time of 1:39.856 seconds on lap 54. Lewis Hamilton finished fourth, his worse career finish in the United States. Hamilton had won his previous two USGP starts. Fernando Alonso finished fifth after a tough battle with Nico Hülkenberg. Sergio Pérez finished seventh in the closest race to his homeland of Mexico.
Valtteri Bottas finished eighth and scored his first career points. It's Williams F1's second points-paying finish of the season. Nico Rosberg and Jenson Button rounded out the points. Toro Rosso drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Éric Vergne finished eleventh and twelfth ahead of Felipe Massa in thirteenth. Esteban Gutiérrez spun on the final lap of the race but finished fourteenth ahead of Hekki Kovalainen in his first start of the 2013 season filling in for the injured Kimi Räikkönen. Paul di Resta was the last car on the lead lap in sixteenth.
Pastor Maldonado was the first car a lap down ahead of Jules Bianchi, Giedo van der Garde and Charles Pic. Max Chilton finished two laps down. Adrian Sutil was the only retirement after making contact with Maldonado on lap one which brought out the safety car.
Vettel's victory for Red Bull is the first for a constructor not named McLaren or Ferrari in the United States Grand Prix since Alan Jones won for Williams in 1980 at Watkins Glen.
Sebastian Vettel extends his championship margin to one-hundred and forty-five points over Fernando Alonso. Lewis Hamilton is forty back of Alonso in third. Kimi Räikkönen fell to fourth after missing the race. He is two points ahead of Mark Webber and twenty-two ahead of Nico Rosberg. Romain Grosjean is seventh with Felipe Massa, Jenson Button and Paul di Resta rounding out the top ten.
In the constructors' championship, Red Bull's margin over Mercedes to two-hundred and five points. Ferrari trails Mercedes by fifteen points with Lotus another eighteen behind Ferrari. McLaren is fifth with Force India in sixth. Sauber and Toro Rosso are seventh and eighth with Williams ninth. Marussia is tenth ahead of Caterham in eleventh. Neither has scored yet in the 2013 season.
Next week, the final round of the Formula One season takes place at Interlagos as the Brazilian Grand Prix closes out another season.
