Max Verstappen wins back-to-back F1 world titles as George Russell wins Las Vegas Grand Prix
Saturday night was good for Max Verstappen.
The Red Bull racer finished fifth in the Las Vegas Grand Prix and it was enough to take his fourth Formula 1 World Championship in a row.
He needed to finish ahead of McLaren’s Lando Norris to win the title and he did that. Norris was in sixth place.
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It was far from an easy weekend for Verstappen. Red Bull made a mistake by fixing his rear wing and the data showed his car was slower than Mercedes drivers George Russell and Lewis Hamilton on the straight. While Russell took pole, Verstappen managed to get enough out of the car to start fifth. He just needed to score three points over Norris to win the world championship. Norris finished sixth.
Mercedes was clearly faster. Russell won the competition. It was his second win of the season. Hamilton finished behind him with Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz taking the podium in third.
Verstappen tied Sebastian Vettel, Juan Manuel Fangio and Hamilton for four consecutive titles. Michael Schumacher won five in a row from 2000 to 2004.
Schumacher and Hamilton each have the most world titles with 7 in total. Fangio has five and Verstappen is tied with Vettel and Alain Prost with four.
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The racers of the Las Vegas Grand Prix had to contend with a cold and windy weekend. The drivers were sliding all over the place for the first three practices. But he picked up the pace in qualifying with the only mistake coming from Franco Colapinto, who crashed out in Q2.
Despite Pierre Gasly’s disappointing night on Saturday, the race was well run.
The F1 program still has two races on its docket, the Qatar Grand Prix and the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix for the constructors’ championship.
Ferrari drivers Sainz and Charles Leclerc finished third and fourth, while McLaren’s Norris and Oscar Piastri finished sixth and seventh.
McLaren entered the weekend 36 points ahead of Ferrari in the constructors’ standings. After the Las Vegas result, McLaren will be up 24 points to Qatar (608 points to Ferrari’s 584).
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