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Brundle notes that the drivers aren’t on the grid right now because it’s too hot. It’s Texas, after all.

Martin Brundle is doing his grid walk alongside Glen Powell, an actor who’ll be on Saturday Night Live next month. (I don’t watch a lot of movies.)

While Brundle usually chats with team personnel and celebrities, he’s spending most of this walk explaining tire strategy to Powell, who interjects to note that a lot of Europeans are wearing cowboy hats, which makes him happy.

The grid

1. Max Verstappen (Red Bull)
2. Lando Norris (McLaren)
3. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)
4. George Russell (Mercedes)
5. Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari)
6. Oscar Piastri (McLaren)
7. Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)
8. Oliver Bearman (Haas)
9. Carlos Sainz (Williams)
10. Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)
11. Nico Hulkenberg (Kick Sauber)
12. Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls)
13. Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull)
14. Pierre Gasly (Alpine)
15. Franco Colapinto (Alpine)
16. Gabriel Bortoleto (Kick Sauber)
17. Esteban Ocon (Haas)
18. Alexander Albon (Williams)
19. Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)
20. Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls)

Stroll is serving a five-place grid penalty but was spared the indignity of starting last when Hadjar crossed in qualifying.

TV coverage is now showing how things look from the 251-foot tower overlooking the track. We’re told that the wind is so strong that the tower is moving, which makes me wonder how quickly I could run down 419 steps.

Construction crews finish the tower at the Circuit of the Americas racetrack in 2012. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

Preamble

The question I’ve been pondering today – if Max Verstappen overhauls both McLaren drivers (Oscar Piastri, Lando Norris), it would be the biggest comeback / worst collapse since …?

Share your suggestions by emailing me at the link above.

In the meantime, since we’re in Austin, and we’ll be seeing hyperefficient tire changes on pit road, let’s take a minute to remember this hyperefficient guitar change by one of Austin’s favorite sons, the late, great Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Beau will be here shortly. In the meantime here’s a look back at yesterday’s qualifying.