The Circuit Of America is finally ready for action and will be officially in business in less than a month. While the rest of the Formula 1 community is half way around the world, it’s Lotus F1 Team third driver Jérôme D’Ambrosio who gets to christen the track and becomes the first man to lap it in a fully fledged F1 car.

The venue looks pretty amazing in this footage, full of high speed corners and lots of opportunities for overtaking. Watch a full lap of the track with Jérôme explaining every corner: