Max Verstappen crossed the line first in F1 Las Vegas GP, the biggest twist came hours later when both McLarens were disqualified for running with an illegal skid-plate thickness, reshaping the final results.
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Start
Norris ran off in the first corner, Verstappen and Russell took over him. Piastri lost 2 positions down to 7th.
Lap 5
Leclerc is 7th after an overtaking of Bearman.
Lap 12-13
Leclerc passed Piastri and Hadjar, the Ferrari driver jumped to 5th position.
Lap 16
Piastri backed to 6th after overtook Hadjar.
Lap 18
Russell pitted from 2nd, the British got hard tires.
Lap 22
Piastri in the pit for new hards. At the end of the lap Norris completed the tyre change also. This time Verstappen led ahead of Leclerc and Russell. Norris 4th, Piastri 10th.
Lap 25
Leclerc pitted from 2nd, back to 9th. Verstappen made the pit stop too but he stayed 1st.
Lap 34
Norris caught Russell for 2nd place and started to close the gap to Verstappen for the victory – the British was around 5 seconds behind.
Lap 50
Verstappen claims the victory, Norris came for 2nd and Russell 3rd – Piastri 4th only.
However, after some hours of the race finished, the FIA excluded both of McLarens due to the thickness of the rearmost skid of both cars was less than the required thickness.
In this way the TOP3: Verstappen, Russell, Antonelli. The McLarens’ exclusion means, Norris lead the chart by 390 point, ahead of Piastri and Verstappen with 366-366 points.