What F1 could do to make 2023’s best race even better
OPINION: Formula 1’s return to Las Vegas got off to a terrible start with the track safety issues leading to fans being kicked out of grandstands, but it ended on a high note with an excellent race. So, what are the lessons on the ground for its 2024 follow up learned by those who were there?
The Las Vegas Grand Prix was, really, the best race of the 2023 Formula 1 season so far. And with just the Abu Dhabi finale next up, that mantle is already nailed on.
The key ingredients for last Saturday night’s engaging contest were these: an exciting track layout that favoured overtaking, controversy from the first corner clash between Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc, and a multi-team scrap for the first F1 victory in Vegas in 41 years.
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Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.
A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.
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