Dutch pilot Max Verstappen (Red Bull) took a hard-fought victory this Sunday in the Las Vegas Grand Prix, the twenty-second round of the Formula 1 World Championship, while the Spaniards Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) and Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) finished sixth and ninth respectively, despite both spinning at the start.
In an event where he overcame a five-second penalty for pushing the Monegasque off the track Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) suffered from extremely high graining The three-time world champion, who encountered traffic in the middle of the comeback, achieved his eighteenth victory of the year in the 21 Grand Prix he competed in, becoming the third in history in F1 with 53 victories, passing German Sebastian Vettel.
Meanwhile, Leclerc left the Mexican behind Sergio Perez (Red Bull) consoled itself by taking second place after reaching the halfway point of the race in the last meters of the last lap, while ‘Checo’ completed the podium in the first race in ‘Sin City’.