The race is on, and what a race it was at Austin with Max Verstappen leading home Lewis Hamilton

by just 1.3 seconds to win the United States Grand Prix and extend his World Championship lead

to 12 points. But in a Grand Prix that balanced speed and strategy in the fight at the front,

how exactly did Red Bull pull off victory?

And could Mercedes have done so after leading the first stint?

I'm Ed's draw, and joining me to answer those questions and many, many more,

as Scott Mitchell and Mark Hughes.

Well, Mark, hello, I'll say that as if I haven't been

pretty much with you all day. Do you enjoy your chauffeur drive to the hotel? Yes, it was

terrific. I especially liked the way you were going the wrong way up one-way streets and mistaken

two-way streets for one-way streets and one-way streets for two-way streets.

At first, you were telling me that you came close to be in side-swiped a couple of times earlier in the weekend, and I thought that was just unlucky, but I could begin to get a different understanding why that might have been by now. Oh, see, that's fascinating, because whenever I'm a passenger in the Ed Straw chauffeur chauffeur service, I'm often led to believe that I'm the issue when I take umbrage with Ed's driving.

But the sample set of aggrieved passengers is starting to grow it.

No, the general service was fine, but I did get a little bit disorientated about where I was. And yeah, I did attempt to send it up a one way street at one point

and then attempt to send it up another one way street and correcting so I did very well

eventually after after kind of circling my hotel for for a few minutes we eventually

eventually got in so all's well that ends well but I'm not I'm not taking the blame for the

the near side swiping. There was one large

accident just in front of me a few days ago in an intersection, which fortunately I wasn't

involved in. And someone tried to do that to me in the evening, but I was, I was wise to it. So

fun in games. But yeah, those were very much not my, not my fault. But Scott, well, we've

already heard from you, but I'll say hello. How are you but I'll say hello how are you I'm good thank you

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