{"id":297443,"date":"2023-11-19T08:23:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T08:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=297443"},"modified":"2023-11-19T08:23:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T08:23:49","slug":"max-verstappen-wins-las-vegas-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/racing\/f1\/max-verstappen-wins-las-vegas-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen WINS Las Vegas Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Las Vegas GP: Max Verstappen WINS captivating race, with Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc second and Sergio Perez third as Lando Norris crashes out early<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>This latest outcome means it&#8217;s is an 18th win in 21 rounds for the Dutchman\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lando Norris has since been taken to hospital after a big smash at 180mph\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>For all the latest regarding the Las Vegas Grand Prix follow our\u00a0LIVE BLOG<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Max Verstappen won a captivating Las Vegas\u00a0Grand Prix \u2013 a race of twists and turns, crashes, courage and mistakes that lived up to its hot billing on the Strip.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Viva Las Vegas,\u2019 chorused the victor, the latest Elvis impersonator in town, from his Red Bull throne.<\/p>\n<p>A bet on the world champion may be the safest punt in all Sin City but it did not always look like that under the bright light of this inaugural event.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome was an 18th win in 21 rounds for Verstappen, yet the most precarious and fluctuating of the season, and the Dutchman only finally pulled off the victory on lap 37 of 50 when he passed Charles Leclerc\u2019s Ferrari in a blur of increasing inevitability.<\/p>\n<p>As he did so, news broke that Lando Norris\u00a0had been taken to the University Medical Center for tests after a big smash at 180mph.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/19\/08\/77982051-12767229-image-a-4_1700381771567.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Red Bull&#8217;s Max Verstappen has come out on top again at this week&#8217;s Las Vegas Grand Prix<\/p>\n<p>Another stand-out fact was the poor performances of the Mercedes duo again. Lewis Hamilton, who had two prangs, the second his fault and which caused a puncture, condemning him to finish seventh. George Russell, never quite in the groove, finished eighth, after taking a five-second penalty.<\/p>\n<p>An upturn in the Silver Arrows\u2019 fortunes look as elusive as ever. How Hamilton, the sport\u2019s biggest global star, must have wished it could have worked out differently on this big and glitziest stage Formula One has ever known.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which got off to a dismal start on Thursday night when practice was abandoned and delayed, and fans sent home, came up trumps when the eyes of the world were turned on it, however bleary they might have been back in European heartlands before breakfast on the Sabbath.<\/p>\n<p>But this was a show for a Saturday night audience Nevada primarily, and it worked. A super-packed grid set the scene. In fact it was so busy that several announcements were made to \u2018please move\u2019 off it so the lights could go out at the appointed time on a cleared road. This has happened by the skin of teeth.<\/p>\n<p>As for Verstappen, he started second on the grid and wasted no time or energy in pushing pole-man Leclerc so far wide the Ferrari man was almost in the Harbor Island Apartments on the outside of the left hander.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen refused to concede he had erred, arguing over his radio that he was in front. He was. But, as we were saying, so far off the track it was hardly a legitimate argument. He was handed a five-second penalty. \u2018Yeah,\u2019 he said with sarcasm to the stewards. \u2018That\u2019s fine. Send them my regards.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Actually, Leclerc was flying, and passed Verstappen just before the first round of stops Could a surprise winner be on the cards? They are all surprises if Verstappen\u2019s name does not lead the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Before the customary conclusion, Verstappen tangled with Russell at Turn 12 \u2013 the bend into the Las Vegas Boulevard. It was where most of the overtaken action occurred. Russell was at fault as Verstappen pushed his claims with his usual gusto down the inside, a bravura act. Russell didn\u2019t appear to realise the Red Bull had come at him like a rocket and was right there beside him. He turned in. A bit of damage to both cars, but not too much. The safety car came out and they pitted. The stewards slapped Russell with his penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen had the bit between his teeth by now. He is a driver with a short touch-paper and you could sense the fireworks popping inside him. He passed his team-mate Sergio Perez, ultimately to finish third, and then came the killer move on Leclerc.<\/p>\n<p>What else? That Norris incident early on. The McLaren lost control on his way past the Wynn, a big snap of unsteer, into Turn 12 \u2013 where else? \u2013 and spun into the wall, scraping along it until his car righted to north and he went nose first into the thankfully distant barrier down the run-off escape, but still hurtling at some speed. That brought out the first of the two safety cars.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Bieber waved the chequered flag. He is Hamilton&#8217;s pal. Verstappen isn\u2019t but the world champion was two seconds ahead of Leclerc by then. All over, bar the limousine ride to the Bellagio hotel for the presentations on an evening when nothing was underdone, but one on which the \u2018sport\u2019 lived up to the \u2018show\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/formulaone\/article-12767229\/Max-Verstappen-WINS-Las-Vegas-Grand-Prix-Ferraris-Charles-Leclerc-second-Sergio-Perez-third.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas GP: Max Verstappen WINS captivating race, with Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc second and Sergio Perez third as Lando Norris crashes out early This latest outcome means it&#8217;s is an 18th win in 21 rounds for the Dutchman\u00a0 Lando Norris has since been taken to hospital after a big smash at 180mph\u00a0 For all the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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