Welcome to our live coverage for today’s qualifying session for the 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix. It’s the second event at this track and whilst there were a few organisational problems and challenges with the maiden edition, the race was actually pretty good in the end. Let’s hope for more of that this weekend.
It looks likely that this will be the weekend that Max Verstappen confirms his fourth world drivers title for Red Bull. For most of the season Lando Norris had been trying to reel him in (and partly succeeding) but a topsy turvey weekend in Brazil when the Dutchman won in the rain put the title almost within his grasp. It was a big ask but it would have been nice for it to at least go down to the final round.
So far in the three practice sessions we have had a Mercedes at the top of the timesheets. That has not happened very much at all in the past three seasons but perhaps the peculiarities of the track and conditions are playing into their hands. In FP3 George Russell was fastest and in both of Friday’s sessions it was Lewis Hamilton.
Whilst they made a breakthrough of sorts in the middle of the season with three victories, they have fallen back to being the fourth quickest team in recent times. Maybe Hamilton will have one last shot at victory with the Silver Arrows before he departs for Ferrari.
Anyway, qualifying starts about now and we will be here for all of the live updates and reaction from it.