F1 Las Vegas GP LIVE: Race start time and schedule as George Russell starts on pole
F1 live updates from Vegas on a day where Max Verstappen could claim the 2024 drivers title
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Your support makes all the difference.George Russell put his Mercedes on pole position for the Las Vegas Grand Prix as team-mate Lewis Hamilton faltered to qualify only 10th.
As Russell saw off Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz by just 0.098 seconds to land top spot in Sin City, Hamilton was left to rue two mistakes which leaves him way down the order.
Pierre Gasly took a surprise third for Alpine, one place ahead of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.
Lando Norris must outscore Max Verstappen by at least three points to extend the title battle to the penultimate race in Qatar, but the British driver will start one place behind the Dutchman in sixth.
Follow live updates from the Las Vegas Grand Prix:
F1 Las Vegas GP LIVE: Colapinto crashes!
Franco Colapinto’s Williams is smashed up! He’s in the wall!
Another accident for Williams, what a nightmare!
He clipped the wall at turn 15 and went in very heavy into the wall!
Bottom-five and out in Q2 (11-15): Ocon, Magnussen, Zhou, Colapinto, Lawson
Norris squeezes through in P9. Top-3: Hamilton, Sainz, Russell
F1 Las Vegas GP LIVE: George Russell now quickest
All the frontrunners, you’d say, occupy the top-seven at the moment - though Lando Norris is far from safe in P7!
Top-3: Russell, Hamilton, Leclerc
Current bottom-five (11-15): Gasly, Colapinto, Ocon, Lawson, Zhou
3:00 to go. Will there be any shock eliminations in these closing minutes?
F1 Las Vegas GP LIVE: Lewis Hamilton quickest early on
Hamilton tops the timesheet, with Piastri second and Verstappen third.
Current bottom-five (11-15): Ocon, Lawson, Zhou, Leclerc, Sainz
Ferrari drivers yet to set a time. 7:00 to go! Drivers still struggling for grip!
F1 Las Vegas GP LIVE: Q2 underway!
Time for the second stage of qualifying then!
15 mins, the ten quickest drivers will progress to Q3!
Will we have any shocks?!
F1 Las Vegas GP LIVE: Sergio Perez is out!
Perez has not made it!
Perez: “Unbelievable, it just doesn’t get any better.”
He misses out by seven-hundredths to RB’s Yuki Tsunoda!
Both Aston Martin cars out too!
Bottom-five (16-20) and out in Q1: Perez, Alonso, Albon, Bottas, Stroll
F1 Las Vegas GP LIVE: Sergio Perez now in the bottom-five
Perez has some work to do here, he’s only 18th-quickest!
Current bottom-five (16-20): Bottas, Colapinto, Perez, Lawson, Stroll
And Stroll has made it out on track! It’s busy out there, with all 20 cars on track!
2:00 to go...
F1 Las Vegas GP LIVE: George Russell goes fastest!
Top-3: Russell, Piastri, Sainz
All the big-hitters look safe, aside from Sergio Perez in P13!
Current bottom-five (16-20): Bottas, Ocon, Magnussen, Hulkenberg, Stroll
Stroll is still in the garage after his engine blew in FP3 - will we see the Aston Martin today?
4:00 to go...
F1 Las Vegas GP LIVE: Oscar Piastri quickest early on
Piastri ahead of Norris and Hamilton in the top-three, but a lot of drivers simply focusing on getting their tyres warm at this stage!
10 minutes to go. And this track will evolve as more rubber gets laid down...
F1 Las Vegas GP LIVE: Q1 underway!
Here we go then with qualifying in Vegas!
18 minutes where we will lose the slowest five drivers for the rest of qualifying.
This should be exciting!
F1 Las Vegas GP LIVE: Qualifying coming right up!
Pole position could be anyone’s in Vegas, it seems!
Mercedes were the quickest in practice but can Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull challenge the impressively quick Silver Arrows?
Qualifying coming up in five minutes!
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