FACTS AND STATS: Vegas win marks Verstappen’s 125th F1 podium

Max Verstappen’s second victory on the Las Vegas strip not only kept his slim championship hopes alive, it also gave us all sorts of new numbers to digest around his and Red Bull’s F1 record. Add in some superb stats from the rest of the field and we have your perfect post-race read…

• Verstappen’s winning margin of 20.741s is the largest in Las Vegas Grand Prix history.

• It was Verstappen’s eighth victory in the United States (four in Austin, two in Miami and now two in Las Vegas).

• It was Verstappen’s 125th career podium finish in 231 starts.

• Verstappen’s win came in the 150th Grand Prix of the Red Bull-Honda collaboration.

• It was Verstappen’s eighth consecutive podium finish this season (the third-longest streak of his career).

• Verstappen’s victory ended a streak of seven consecutive Grands Prix won from pole position.

• Prior to his team’s disqualification, P2 for McLaren's Lando Norris would have been his 18th podium finish in 22 Grands Prix this season.

• It would also have been McLaren’s first podium finish in Las Vegas since John Watson in 1982.

• Norris has lost the lead on the first lap in exactly half of all his starts from pole (eight out of 16).

• Norris leads the Drivers’ Championship by 24 points.

• P2 for Mercedes’ George Russell was his ninth podium finish of the season.

• Russell is now guaranteed to finish fourth in the Drivers’ Championship (matching his career-best season).

• Norris and Russell both reached 150 career Grands Prix this weekend.

• McLaren’s Oscar Piastri finished off podium for the sixth consecutive Grand Prix.

• Both Piastri and Verstappen now trail Norris by 24 points in the Drivers’ Championship.

• Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli completed the final 48 laps on single set of hard tyres en route to P3.

• Antonelli started 17th on the grid.

• With P5, Carlos Sainz scored Williams’ first Grand Prix points since Singapore.

• P6 for Isack Hadjar was Racing Bulls’ best-ever finish in Las Vegas.

• P7 gave Kick Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg his eighth Grand Prix points finish of the season.

• The result brought Sauber their first-ever points in Las Vegas.

• Lewis Hamilton scored points for Ferrari from the last row of the grid.

• Williams’ Alex Albon did not finish for the fourth time this year.

• Kick Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto retired after his involvement in a Lap 1 accident with Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll for the second consecutive Grand Prix.

• Stroll went out on the first lap for the fifth time in his F1 career.