Race Highlights | 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix

Here come the lights in Vegas and we're underway and racing down to turn number one. Lando Norris is gonna need the job but it's super aggressive from the pole sitter who's off, who's wide, the lead for Max Verstappen as Lando Norris rejoins. He went bold but Verstappen got by and now moving up around the outside and trying to take P2 away. George Russell climbing up to second position. Crucial couple of meters for the Grand Prix for Lando Norris

who wants P2. It's dirty, dusty and he can't go late on the brakes. It's Max Verstappen, George Russell, the pole sitter is down to third. Lando Norris has lost places. Oskar Piastri's P7 right now. He's lost a couple as well. Hachard up to P5. There's a move for Charles Leclerc. That's for ninth position. Laid on the brakes into Turn 14 as we go over the line.

Verstappen, Russell Norris is the top three in the Grand Prix. Norris, who just missed his brake point. So busy was he to get to the inside and Verstappen comes through. Sensational move this from Russell as well round the outside.

What's Bortoletto going to see as he heads down?

Oh my word! Clobbers into the side of the Aston Martin and round went Pierre Gasly. That's how he lost seven places.

Well, there's no question who is the cause of that accident. Bortoletto completely misjudged his braking. Now on board with Liam Lawson. And then the McLaren. Oh, how lucky was Piastri that that was a wheel-to-wheel contact.

So Antonelli's got a five-second penalty for a false start.

He's creeping.

And you can see the wheel was moving before the lights went out.

Russell will be doing everything he can to stay within a DRS zone of Verstappen.

Oh, damage for Lawson. And Piastri gets by. Lawson with front damage to the car, and Piastri is up to P6. Late braking move for Charles Leclerc, and he gets past the Haas.

The Ferrari easing by and up to P7. Crucial move for his Grand Prix. Next car up the road, one of the championship contenders, Oskar Piastri.

Here we go for a Ferrari with a pass.

It's turning into pass or be passed for Oskar Piastri, who was trying to line up the move on Isaac Hajar. Instead opens the door for Charles Leclerc, and that Ferrari is rapid as we build up to 212 milesph, can Leclerc roll by and get past Piastri? He can! And Piastri's difficult Saturday night goes from bad to worse. He's got grip, he's got speed, and has he got a chance for another position? Late on the brakes, easing to the inside and taking P5.

Two passes in two laps for Charles Leclerc, who's up to fifth position.

Wow, Hamilton very deep there and that's where the contact was made.

So that's why Albon's gone into the pits. Alex Albon has a five-second penalty for causing a collision. He is staring at six Grand Prix in a row without points. Green flag is flying once again in Las Vegas. We're racing. Chance for Oscar Piastri. Top of your picture. Papaya car moving by, reacting well. And is this the chance to get past? It is. And now he'll hug the inside line, maybe run over some of that debris that wasn't quite cleared.

But Piastri needed to get past and did so. P6 for the Australian driver.

Science is trying to cover off Piastri then. This will be very close.

Short a distance for Science, but he's got to get the tyres fired up. Yeah, that's gonna be key, especially in a long corner here. And you can see the McLaren all over the back of the Williams with the DRS. Science makes the defensive move, but he's boxed in, and Piastri's going to get by. Piastri had one opportunity to make that work.

He took it, and he clears the Williams. He really needed that one. Got the move done.

The problem for Norris is that not putting pressure on Russell means that Russell can have an easier time on his tyres as well, and look after them. It's a difficult balance of trying to attack to make the guy ahead use the tyres. Piastri's through. Leclerc's going to have the same issue here with Carlos Sainz on the hotter, hard tyres.

Yeah, they come out of the blankets at a lower temperature than operating on the racetrack and Sainz is unable to make the impression. So, Charles Leclerc getting track position over Carlos Sainz. Piastri ahead of the pair of them.

What I can say is I'm going to do a 10 from him. I don't want to do something stupid. I'm going to push the plug in.

Do you want me to DRS or try to overtake him?

Overtake him. We're going to go get Max.

We're heading to 200 miles an hour and turn 14. DRS will open for Lando Norris and he stays on the outside line. Russell will hug the apex of the corner or try to. He can't. Norris straight by up to second position. And now he will try and do what his race engineer told him and chase down Max Verstappen. Antonelli in fourth position, the contact between these three that are running line of stern, that's laid on the brakes for Antonelli, hanging on to this one and you can see sliding around and potentially

opening the door for another chance of Charles Leclerc is Oscar Piastri. Piastri unable to find a way through. Interesting information that Red Bull have heard that we have not heard, which is Lando Norris nursing a problem, and suddenly he's 13 seconds away from the race lead. Russell was three seconds quicker on the last lap.

Norris lost no more time than he did the previous lap, so he may well get there. My information is that Lando Norris has been asked to lift and coast all the way to the flag, so they will be updating him on that gap and it is being managed all the way to the chequered flag.

So surely it's brakes again. Lifting coast is tyre saving, it's brakes or it's fuel. There's been a safety car which will negate any fuel issues for them.

So must be brake considerations that McLaren have. Well, this is going to be an eighth consecutive podium finish for Max Verstappen, who is still a contender for the title. You cannot count him out. Heading to Qatar, still with a chance. This is the 17th and final corner of the last lap.

The Dutch driver will look up and see the chequered flag first. Max Verstappen wins the Las Vegas Grand Prix. His name up in lights once again for second position. It's a wait. Red Bull have taken the win with Max Verstappen, his sixth of the season and lifting and coasting with a terrific position in the

World Championship with two Grand Prix to go. Lando Norris hangs on, George Russell completes the podium, Kimi Antonelli with unbelievable speed but a five-second penalty and it means as we go across the line it's Piastri in fourth. Antonelli is listed in P5 ahead of Charles Leclerc by one tenth of a second. There's always something different here in Las Vegas, but that's really different. Looking good in the LEGO Cadillac that will take the top three, I imagine, to the Bellagio Fountains. We now have two weeks left to decide the Formula One World Championship in 2025,

and thanks to his win tonight, still three names in the mix, but advantage Lando Norris heading in to the final three races of the year. One sprint, two Grand Prix, and it's all coming your way in the next two weeks as we close out this 24-round campaign. But the third Las Vegas Grand Prix has been won by Max Verstappen. But the third Las Vegas Grand Prix has been won by Max Verstappen. He's second at this venue.