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This is the sport’s 15th visit to the Middle East track and the tenth time the race has run with the drivers’ championship already concluded – but that certainly does not mean it no longer matters. 

Things got off to a bumpy start in Sin City, but ended with one of the best races of the season and the potential of what’s to come in F1.

Lewis Hamilton has led a chorus of approval for the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix and criticised ‘people who have been negative’ about the event

Charles Leclerc is on pole position in Sin City, with Max Verstappen starting second after Carlos Sainz's controversial grid penalty

Motorsports fans are feeling ripped off after a manhole cover came loose just nine minutes into a practice race, damaging a Ferrari and triggering a series of setbacks for the Las Vegas Grand Prix.

From racing on a speedy new circuit layout to cold temperatures causing chaos, here are the biggest story lines as F1 takes over Sin City.

Bugatti's stripe game is unparalleled.

Follow our guide on how to watch a Las Vegas Grand Prix live stream anywhere – the Sphere, Caesars Palace and the Bellagio Fountains are primped and primed for the new race.

Max Verstappen returned to sprint winning ways at the final such shorter event of 2023, following up his Austin sprint vicory, after his surprise defeat to Oscar Piastri in the Qatar weekend’s first race. In Brazil, Verstappen quickly overcame the other McLaren of Lando Norris to earn his fourth sprint…

Far more successful in touring cars, GTs and sportscars Zakspeed had a disappointing five-year spell in Grand Prix racing from 1985 to 1989, logging a single points finish.

F1 changed the format of its six sprint weekends for this year. Instead of the sprint race setting the grid for Sunday's main grand prix, the sprint received a separate qualifying session on Saturday, disconnecting it from the rest of the weekend.