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Attendees at last weekend's first-ever Las Vegas Grand Prix are still decompressing after all the late-night festivities and the spectacle of 200-plus-mile-per-hour F1 cars racing down the Strip. I was there from start to finish, documenting the results along the way. Now that I'm safe and sound in my quiet home more than 2,000 miles away, I can put my stream-of-consciousness thoughts down on pen and virtual paper.
The first modern Las Vegas Grand Prix is done and dusted, and the most surprising thing of all is that it wasn't a complete shambles. We'll do a full feature and the good, the bad, and the downright ugly in due course, but we'll provide the race results for now.
LAS VEGAS — Max Verstappen hated everything about the Las Vegas Grand Prix from the moment he arrived in Sin City. Formula One's three-time reigning world champion found the excess and opulence over-the-top and prioritized over the actual racing.
Charles Leclerc has secured yet another pole position this season, but the big question is whether the Monegasque can turn it into a win. Leclerc hasn't stood on the top step for a while, as Carlos Sainz remains the only driver to grab a victory from Red Bull's hands.
LAS VEGAS — Considering the drama and intrigue that has surrounded the 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix up to this point, the fact that qualifying for the first Formula 1 race in Sin City since 1982 went off without incident is noteworthy. After the time allotted for qualifying came to an end, the Ferrari pair of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz crossed the line in first and second place. But due to the 10-position penalty assessed after Sainz was forced to a halt after hitting a water drain cover that was dislodged during the first practice session the previous evening, he will start in the 12th position. Just 0.044 seconds separated the two Ferrari drivers.
Ahead of the Las Vegas Formula 1 Grand Prix, the members of the Oracle Red Bull Racing, Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez, and Scuderia Alpha Tauri's Yuki Tsunoda and Daniel Ricciardo had some fun driving hovercrafts in the Nevada desert.
The U.S. Grand Prix results were confirmed after Formula One stewards rejected on Thursday an attempt by the Haas team to have them reviewed weeks after the event.