الوسم: Las Vegas GP

Max Verstappen won the Las Vegas Grand Prix in dramatic fashion on Sunday, on a weekend marred by controversy in Sin City.

The Dutchman has already won this year’s championship, and yet made it 18 wins from 21 with only one round remaining.

Verstappen was forced to overcome a five-second time penalty during the race, as well as manage collisions with Charles Leclerc and George Russell.

Ferrari’s Leclerc passed Sergio Perez on the final lap to clinch second place, while British star Lando Norris ended up in hospital after a third-lap 180mph crash.

Lewis Hamilton finished seventh.

But much of the focus of the race was off the track, with the event hitting a number of problems over the weekend.

Controversially billed as the most expensive race in Formula One history, fans on Thursday only managed to see eight minutes of racing during the practice session, after a loose manhole cover on the street circuit tore a hole in Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari, bringing proceedings to a screeching halt.

It was more than five hours before cars were allowed back on the track, by which point fans had been made to leave.