Max Verstappen wins 4th straight F1 world championship as George Russell wins Las Vegas Grand Prix

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LAS VEGAS – Saturday nighttime was each close for Max Verstappen.

The Red Bull racer finished successful 5th spot astatine the Las Vegas Grand Prix and it was capable to seizure his 4th consecutive Formula 1 World Championship.

He needed to decorativeness up of McLaren’s Lando Norris to prime up the rubric triumph and did conscionable that. Norris was successful sixth place.

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Red Bull operator Max Verstappen, of the Netherlands, drives the people during qualifying for the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix car race, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024, successful Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

It was acold from the easiest play for Verstappen. Red Bull made a mistake adjusting his rear helping and information showed his conveyance was moving slower than Mercedes drivers George Russell and Lewis Hamilton connected the straightaways. While Russell captured the pole, Verstappen was capable to get capable retired of the car to commencement successful fifth. He lone needed to people 3 much points than Norris to clinch the satellite championship. Norris qualified sixth.

Mercedes was intelligibly quicker. Russell won the race. It was his 2nd triumph of the season. Hamilton finished close down him portion Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz picked up a podium spot successful 3rd place.

Mercedes operator George Russell, of Britain, celebrates are winning the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix car race, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, successful Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Verstappen tied Sebastian Vettel, Juan Manuel Fangio and Hamilton with 4 consecutive titles. Michael Schumacher won 5 consecutive from 2000 to 2004.

Schumacher and Hamilton each person the astir satellite titles with 7 successful total. Fangio has 5 and Verstappen is tied with Vettel and Alain Prost with four.

Red Bull operator Max Verstappen, of the Netherlands, prepares to contention earlier the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix car race, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, successful Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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Las Vegas Grand Prix racers had to conflict a play of acold upwind and the wind. Drivers were slipping and sliding each implicit the spot done the archetypal 3 practices. But picked up the gait successful qualifying with the lone mistake coming from Franco Colapinto, who suffered a clang successful Q2.

Aside from Pierre Gasly’s disappointing nighttime connected Saturday, the contention was tally clean.

The F1 docket inactive has 2 races connected its docket, the Qatar Grand Prix and Abu Dhabi Grand Prix with the constructors’ title up for grabs.

Ferrari drivers Sainz and Charles Leclerc finished 3rd and fourth, with McLaren’s Norris and Oscar Piastri finishing sixth and seventh.

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McLaren entered the play 36 points up of Ferrari successful the constructors’ standings. After the Las Vegas result, McLaren volition beryllium up 24 points going into Qatar (608 points to Ferrari’s 584).

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