Grand Prix of Las Vegas: interesting statistics

Several interesting statistical selections based on the results of the Las Vegas Grand Prix…

Qualification

After winning qualifying in Las Vegas, Charles Leclerc won the 23rd pole of his career and the fifth of the season.

Carlos Sainz qualified second, Ferrari could have taken the entire front row for the 84th time in history, but the Spaniard was punished by losing ten places at the start.

Max Verstappen qualified third, but started second for the fourth time this season.

George Russell became (after Sainz’s penalty) the sixth driver to start the season in the top three this year. George defeated Hamilton in qualifying, now they have a score of 11:10 in favor of Lewis, so the fate of this match is postponed to Abu Dhabi, and in other teams everything has already been decided.

Pierre Gasly’s fourth place (after Sainz’s penalty) is his best result this season. His teammate Esteban Ocon dropped out of contention in the first part of qualifying for the fourth time in the last nine Grand Prix.

Alex Albon’s fifth place (after Sainz’s penalty) is his second top-five start this season and his best result since fourth at Zandvoort.

Logan Sargent qualified seventh, a career best, and started sixth, the best position for an American driver at home since Eddie Cheever’s sixth at Detroit ’87 in an Arrows.

For the first time since the 2016 Russian Grand Prix, both Williams drivers were in the top six.

Seventh place at the start is Valtteri Bottas’ best result this season.

After qualifying twelfth, Sergio Perez failed to qualify for the final for the ninth time this year.

The McLaren team dropped out of the race with two cars in the first part of qualifying; the last time this happened was in early May in Miami.

Race

By winning the Las Vegas Grand Prix, Max Verstappen achieved his 18th victory of the season and 53rd of his career, equaling Sebastian Vettel in the number of career victories.

Verstappen became the first in history to win three times in one season in one country: in the USA – in Miami, Austin and Las Vegas.

By winning the twentieth Grand Prix this year, the Red Bull team broke Mercedes’ record for the number of wins in a season (19 wins in 2016).

Charles Leclerc finished second and finished on the podium for the fifth time this season. The Monegasque failed to win the last twelve races in which he started from pole position.

Sergio Perez finished third and secured second place in the Drivers’ Championship. For the first time in history, Red Bull drivers took first and second place in the championship.

Perez reached the podium for the 35th time, equaling Emerson Fittipaldi and Juan Manuel Fangio.

After starting 16th, Esteban Ocon finished the race in fourth. He has only finished higher once this year, taking the podium in Monaco

Lance Stroll finished fifth for the second race in a row.

After finishing sixth, Carlos Sainz was ahead of McLaren’s Lando Norris and Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso in the individual standings, moving up to fourth.

By finishing seventh, Lewis Hamilton secured third place in the individual classification.

His teammate George Russell finished eighth after a penalty and will take the same position in the individual rankings at the end of the season. This is the worst position for a Mercedes driver since 2012, when Nico Rosberg finished the season ninth and Michael Schumacher thirteenth.