at the 2021 FORMULA 1 UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX™ on Sunday, Oct. It was also a maiden win for Maldonado, who now sits in 9th place in the standings with 29 points.NEW YORK – The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Formula 1 ® (F1) today announced a first-of-its-kind content and promotion partnership to bring together the broad, global fanbases of the NBA and F1 in celebration of the NBA’s 75th Anniversary season and the return of F1 to the U.S. There was also the brilliant strategic win by Pastor Maldonado for the Williams team over Ferrari in Spain, which gave one of the iconic teams of the sport its first F1 win since 2004. Former world champion Raikkonen has been on the podium twice, which has helped get his Lotus team into 4th place in the Constructors' Standings. The two drivers sit in 6th and 8th place in the standings with 51 points and 35 points, respectively. The Lotus team of Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean have joined the battle.

It is not just Ferrari and Alonso who are surprising the F1 world either. If Ferrari has a worry, it will concern the performances of their number two driver, Felipe Massa, who is down in 14th place in the Drivers' Standings with a mere 10 points. Should improvements on the Italian manufacturer's car still be forthcoming, then Alonso, who won the Malaysian Grand Prix, could be the driver everyone has to beat between now and the season's conclusion in November. However, there were not too many predicting that Fernando Alonso would be at the top of affairs for Ferrari at this stage of the championship, with most believing that there was still much work to do on their cars. They lead the Constructors' Standings with 146 points, a healthy 38 points clear of McLaren and their two drivers in the Top 3. That, of course, still might prove to be the case. Before the season, many were predicting that the Red Bull team would once again dominate in 2012.

F1 2012 standings