- The Las Vegas Grand Prix is spherical 22 of the 2024 F1 season
- The race runs on a Tilke-designed road circuit often known as the Las Vegas Strip Circuit
- The race is scheduled for Saturday evening as an alternative of F1’s traditional Sunday setting
The 2024 Method 1 World Championship heads to Las Vegas this weekend for what would be the third final race of the season.
The Las Vegas Grand Prix was held for the primary time final 12 months, although there have been prior F1 races in Sin Metropolis. The present format sees vehicles take to a road circuit often known as the Las Vegas Strip Circuit, which was designed by Tilke, the design firm of racetrack designer Hermann Tilke and his son, Carsten.
The Las Vegas Strip Circuit encompasses a 17-corner, 3.85-mile lengthy monitor, which is second solely to Spa-Francorchamps in size. The circuit captures a number of of town’s most well-known landmarks in its backdrop, together with the Sphere, and really runs down the well-known Strip. For the reason that race is held at evening, lots of the metropolis’s neon lights are additionally current.
The circuit’s format consists of a brief run from the beginning line to the primary nook, a decent left-hander adopted by a sequence of extra flowing corners which lead into the primary of two DRS zones. The second sector sees drivers accelerating out of Flip 9, going into a pointy left which leads onto the second straight because the vehicles fly down the Strip, the place the second DRS zone is discovered. After that comes a slim chicane at Turns 14, 15 and 16 which leads again to the principle straight.
Las Vegas Strip Circuit, residence of the Method 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix
As has develop into the norm for road circuits, Pirelli has chosen the three softest compounds for the race, C3, C4, and C5. The principle problem on the tire entrance will likely be sustaining temperatures within the cool circumstances, particularly throughout qualifying. The temperatures on the monitor are anticipated to get all the way down to round 50 levels F through the race.
The schedule for the weekend is barely totally different to a typical F1 weekend as each qualifying and the race takes place on the Saturday, as an alternative of the race being run on the same old Sunday setting.
Following the primary observe session on Thursday, Mercedes-Benz AMG drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell delivered shocking tempo. McLaren’s Lando Norris was additionally on the prime of the time sheets, whereas reigning champion Max Verstappen of Crimson Bull Racing acquired slowed down.
Going into the weekend, Verstappen leads the 2024 Drivers’ Championship with 393 factors. Norris is second with 331 factors and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc is third with 307 factors. Within the Constructors’ Championship, McLaren leads with 593 factors. Ferrari is second with 557 factors whereas Crimson Bull is third with 544 factors. Final 12 months’s winner in Las Vegas was Verstappen, driving for Crimson Bull.