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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen (right) celebrates on the podium after winning the Las Vegas Grand Prix, along with second-placed McLaren’s Lando Norris at the Las Vegas Strip Circuit
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Las Vegas Grand Prix on Saturday, but McLaren’s Lando Norris has one hand on the Formula One title after finishing second and stretching his lead over teammate Oscar Piastri to 30 points.
Piastri finished fourth after Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli, who was ahead of the Australian at the chequered flag, had five seconds added for jumping the start. George Russell, last year’s winner of the floodlit race and, like Norris, making his 150th start, completed the podium for Mercedes.
With two grands prix and a sprint remaining, worth a maximum 58 points, Norris has 408 points to Piastri’s 378, with four-time world champion Verstappen still mathematically in contention on 366.
Norris finished 20.741 seconds behind but can now secure his first title in Qatar this weekend, with McLaren having already clinched the constructors’ crown for the second year in a row.
“The car was working pretty well, much more to my liking,” said Verstappen, ferried to the podium with Norris and Russell in a LEGO pink Cadillac convertible driven by actor Terry Crews as fireworks lit up the sky over the strip. “It was at the end quite a decent gap.”
It was the 69th win of Verstappen’s career and his sixth of the season, as well as his 125th podium and eighth in a row in the 150th Grand Prix of Red Bull’s partnership with Honda.
Antonelli finished fifth with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc sixth and Williams’ Carlos Sainz seventh. Isack Hadjar was eighth for Racing Bulls, and Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg and Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton completed the top 10.
