2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix

[aunty dive]

Danica is resplendent in red leather.

I wonder if she’s had any interactions with the Las Vegas lizard people yet?

 

[aunty dive]

Ambient temperature is 48 degrees F for Q1. Track is slick.

 

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2 Mercedes fastest in Q1. Colapinto 5th.

Perez, Alonso, Albon, Bottas and Stroll out.

 

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Q2 - Hamilton, Sainz, Russel, Gasley, Leclerc.

Colapinto crashed hard at the end of the session.

Colapinto, Ocon, Magnusson, Lawson and Zhou Guanyu missed the cut.

 

[aunty dive]

Hamilton spins with 5 minutes to go in the final session. Russel grazed the wall with his RR.

Russel, Sainz, Gasley, Leclerc and Verstappen fast 5. Gasley looked really good.

 

[donthaveanickname]

Qualifying 3rd in an Alpine is nothing short of sensational, especially with no rain or other extraordinary circumstances.

 

[donthaveanickname]

Colapinto is wicked fast but he too has turned out to be quite expensive for Williams.
This crash won't help him to stay on the 2025 grid.

 

[Tony_K]

The accountant at Williams has to be shaking his/her head this year.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Verstappen outqualifying Norris with Red Bull DIYing a revised rear wing throughout the weekend.

Vegas would actually not be a bad spot for the finale, imo.

 

[Doc Austin]

Gasly had a big day. Amazing he hasn't put a scratch on the car all year.

 

[Speedbowl14]

This grid walk is more of a hilarious disaster than usual lmaooo. This is like the digger cam of F1... too ridiculous it's funny again

 

[Magicmiler]

The gridwalk is JAMMED .
Give up already...

 

[Speedbowl14]

Oh my God it's so bad it was good and now it's become sooooo bad it's bad again.

 

[Speedbowl14]

Wow. That anthem. WTF

 

[aunty dive]

Danica seems to be attired in some sort of lavishly decorated Apache horse blanket.

 

[Clutch]

 

[donthaveanickname]

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The one time in the year where the race actually starts around 3pm for you.

 

[donthaveanickname]

McLaren and Ferrari are completely destroying their tires.

 

[Clutch]

The one time in the year where the race actually starts around 3pm for you.

It started at 7pm

 

[Greg]

1:20 am and hoping I can stay awake to the end.

 

[donthaveanickname]

Damn, Gasly goes out with an old school blown engine after that great qualifying.

 

[HoneyBadger]

This is the opposite of last year's race so far.

 

[donthaveanickname]

Did Sainz miss pit road?

 

[donthaveanickname]

Perez takes it three wide and makes it stick. Is that really Perez in the 11?

Old dude is closing in, but I think he'll run out of time.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Gonna be a nice WCC points haul for Ferrari.

 

[HoneyBadger]

I know he won the championship, but anytime Max Verstappen doesn’t win the race, we get a moment of world peace.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Russell went belt to ass tonight. Great drive from Hamilton as well.

Put Tsunoda in the other Red Bull already.

 

[Greg]

I was in and out of sleeping. Did Hamilton make thay many passes or was the P2 finish a strategy thing?

 

[donthaveanickname]

I know he won the championship, but anytime Max Verstappen doesn’t win the race, we get a moment of world peace.

He only won one of the last 12...

Nevertheless, congratulations to the sixth driver to win four world championships.
For most of the season Red Bull didn't have the best car and yet Max always took the maximum points haul that he could get. If there was any doubt he deserved to win the championship, he showed at Interlagos that he's still the best driver out there.
Yet I'm surprised to see the championship decided with two races to go. No one was able to string together an actual championship campaign. Lando would have needed to show the performance he showed in Holland and Singapore every week.

Mercedes was on another planet today while McLaren was surprisingly ******. Ferrari could still have a go at the constructors after all.

 

[donthaveanickname]

I was in and out of sleeping. Did Hamilton make thay many passes or was the P2 finish a strategy thing?

A mixture of both, he undercut Sainz, overcut Leclerc and passed Max on track.

 

[Hotrod]

Good to see the Mercs have a good weekend.
Still bit of a weird USA event for me to really get my arms around.
The drivers commenting about smelling legal weed all around the
track during the weekend was quite funny. Max V. was sure
he would probably fail an FIA drug test because of the exposure!

 

[Doc Austin]

Yuki: "I sh*t my pants."