Toto Wolff: The Las Vegas weekend is not like the rest in F1.
Racing down the Strip at night time has already change into an iconic a part of the calendar, with the high-speed format proving an fascinating problem and offering nice racing. It has drawn in each current and new followers to our sport and I’m certain will proceed to take action for a few years to come back. The primary two editions had been spectacular and I’m certain this 12 months will probably be even larger and higher.
On observe, we have re-established our benefit within the battle for P2. We aren’t taking something as a right although. We noticed throughout Austin and Mexico simply how rapidly that hole can disappear and, while our efficiency final 12 months in Las Vegas could have raised expectations externally for this weekend, we aren’t getting carried away. The sector is extremely aggressive and It will be a battle proper till the bitter finish in Abu Dhabi. We’ve three weeks of laborious racing forward to determine who comes out on prime and we’re able to get going.
One championship will certainly be determined this weekend. Doriane heads to Las Vegas main the F1 Academy standings; it has been a superb battle between her and Maya (Weug) of Ferrari all season lengthy. Both one will probably be a deserving champion however we are going to in fact be cheering our junior driver on as she appears to complete the job and finish her time within the collection with the last word success.
Reality File
• System One returned to Las Vegas for the primary time in over 40 years in 2023.
• The game’s earlier visits to ‘Sin Metropolis’ befell in 1981 and 1982 below the moniker of the Caesars Palace Grand Prix.
• Every version was that 12 months’s season finale with the Williams of Alan Jones taking victory in 1981 and the Tyrrell of Michele Alboreto victorious in 1982.
• The present format has 17 corners, 11 to the left and 6 to the proper.
• The 6.201km observe runs anticlockwise, and blasts via probably the most well-known streets of Las Vegas together with the Strip at excessive velocity.
• The observe is the second-longest on the 2025 calendar, solely shorter than Spa-Francorchamps.
• That features a part over 1.9 km lengthy from the exit of Flip 12 to the braking zone at Flip 14, which is taken utterly flat.
• The 112-metre run from pole place to the primary braking zone is the second shortest of the 12 months. Solely Baku in Azerbaijan (at 89m) has a shorter run.
• Speeds across the Strip circuit in Las Vegas are among the quickest of the 12 months, reaching almost 350km/h.
• The set-up trade-off is making certain that prime speeds should not compromised while the automotive retains good mechanical grip and downforce for the low-speed corners, equivalent to Turns 1-4, Turns 7-9, Flip 12, and Turns 14-16.
• With observe and air temperatures solely reaching the mid-teens, Las Vegas is once more anticipated to be the coldest race of the 12 months for groups and drivers.
• In 2025, Las Vegas would be the solely race to be held on a Saturday within the nation the Grand Prix is going down.
• George took his third F1 win on the 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix. He additionally began on pole and led house a Mercedes 1-2 forward of Lewis Hamilton. The Silver Arrows led all 50 laps that night time.
• Las Vegas 2025 will probably be Gorge’s a hundred and fiftieth F1 Grand Prix, the primary coming in Australia in 2019. It will likely be his 91st for Mercedes.
