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Today's post-race press conference with Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton and Sergio Perez.

LED shoebox lights are becoming pretty famous lately due to their vast outdoor applications.

We went for track position and Max held on and managed the race superbly, especially his last stint on the hard tyre.

We leave Austin having demonstrated, both in qualifying and in the race, that we have made progress even on a track that, on paper, is not particularly suited to our car.

P5 and P8 today here at COTA was pretty much everything that was on the table. We were fighting a very strong Ferrari team this weekend and did well to get ahead of at least one of them.

We thought we had a sniff at the victory with Lewis and he put in a brilliant charge in the final laps, but in the end it wasn't enough.

It was difficult today with the hot track and gusty conditions making the tyre management difficult.

In summary, it's a race to forget for us. Pretty much everything that could go wrong did go wrong.

The team would have deserved at least a point after a good race, and it's obviously disappointing to see it slip from our hands so close to the chequered flag.

Overall, the package has shown a good level of performance here in Austin, so the objective is to continue this form and keep the pressure on for fifth in the championship.

A solitary point was scant reward for a fine drive, but our strategists made the right call to go for comparatively late first pit stops and we maximised all the opportunities available to us.

Max and Lewis had exactly the same tyre allocation left before the race but used it in very different ways.

Our race was much of the same as the rest of this year, but we don't give up.

Whether it was luck or judgement, Red Bull's aggressive tyre gamble pays off as Verstappen extends his championship lead at a track that traditionally favours the Mercedes.

Result of the Aramco United States Grand Prix.