Las Vegas joined the F1 calendar in 2023, with the drivers speeding along the iconic Las Vegas Strip for a unique Saturday night race. Here are all the facts and statistics you need to know about the Las Vegas Grand Prix!
Track length: 6.201km
Race length: 309.958km
Laps: 50
Turns: 17
Circuit opened: 2023
F1 first visited: 2023
Races held: 2
Track Record: 1:32.312, George Russell, 2024
Lap Record: 1:34.876, Lando Norris 2024
LAS VEGAS RACE WINNERS
The Las Vegas Grand Prix was first held in 2023 – but that was not F1’s first visit to the city. The Caesars Palace Grand Prix was held in 1981 and 1982.
There’s yet to be a repeat Las Vegas Grand Prix winner
From the two races held to date at Las Vegas Strip Circuit, there’s yet to be a repeat winner of the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Max Verstappen was victorious in 2023, with George Russell becoming the second winner in two races at the track in 2024.
Red Bull and Mercedes are the only teams to have won here, each taking a single victory. Honda RBPT and Mercedes are therefore tied as the most successful engine manufacturers here.
Dutch and British drivers are currently tied for the most wins at this circuit, with one apiece.
No driver has taken consecutive wins here.
There’s yet to be a back-to-back winning driver, team or nation at the Las Vegas Grand Prix – but George Russell, Mercedes and Britain could become the first to do so in 2025.
Mercedes are the only team with a 1-2 finish in Las Vegas
In 2024, Mercedes became the first team to record a 1-2 finish at the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton finished as runner-up to team-mate George Russell.
Red Bull are the only other team to finish on the podium with both cars here. In 2023, Max Verstappen won the race and Sergio Perez finished third.
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The longest streak of different winners here is two.
With no repeat winners here so far, the longest streak of different winners at Las Vegas Strip circuit is two.
The largest win margin at this track is 7.313 seconds.
The biggest Las Vegas win margin to date came at the 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix, where George Russell took victory ahead of his team-mate by 7.313 seconds.
The smallest victory margin at the track came at the 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix, when Max Verstappen finished 2.070 seconds ahead of Charles Leclerc.
From the two races so far, the average win margin at the circuit is 4.692 seconds.
ON THE PODIUM IN LAS VEGAS
From the two races at Las Vegas Strip Circuit, six different drivers have finished on the podium.
There’s yet to be a repeat podium finisher in Las Vegas
No driver has had more than one podium finish in Las Vegas. Sergio Perez is the only previous top three finisher who is not on the 2025 grid. Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, George Russell, Lewis Hamilton and Carlos Sainz could become the first drivers to take two podium finishers at the Las Vegas Grand Prix in 2025.
Three teams are tied for the most podiums here.
Red Bull, Mercedes and Ferrari are the only teams who’ve finished on the podium at the Las Vegas Grand Prix – and they’re all tied for the most top three finishes here, with two apiece.
British drivers have recorded the most podiums.
Britain is the only nation with multiple podium finishes at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, thanks to Lewis Hamilton and George Russell’s 1-2 finish in 2024. The Netherlands, Monaco, Mexico and Spain are the other nations who’ve recorded top three results here.
The furthest back podium finisher at this track came from 11th.
Sergio Perez holds the record for the furthest back grid position from which a podium finish has come at the Las Vegas Grand Prix. He started 11th on the grid in the 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix and finished third.
In 2024, Lewis Hamilton finished second having started tenth. His and Perez’s podium finishes are the only ones which have been taken by drivers who did not start from the front row of the grid.
LAS VEGAS POLESITTERS
Leclerc and Russell are the previous Las Vegas polesitters.
Like winners, there’s yet to be a repeat polesitter at the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Charles Leclerc took pole for the inaugural race at Las Vegas Strip Circuit, while George Russell secured pole in 2024.
It means that Ferrari and Mercedes are tied for the most poles here, while Monaco and Britain are tied as the nations with the most pole positions at the track.
There’s yet to be a race at Las Vegas Strip Circuit in which the fastest qualifier has failed to start from pole position.
There’s yet to be a back-to-back polesitter in Las Vegas.
George Russell could become the first driver to secure consecutive pole positions for the Las Vegas Grand Prix in 2024.
The fastest ever lap of the Las Vegas track came in qualifying for the 2024 race.
George Russell holds the record for the fastest lap at the track, setting a 1:32.312 for pole position in 2024.
The smallest difference between the 20 cars in Q1 is 1.298 seconds.
That happened in 2024, when George Russell’s fastest Q1 time was 1.298 seconds faster than the lap which secured last place on the grid for the Lance Stroll.
Pole position in Las Vegas has always been decided by less than a tenth.
In the two races so far at Las Vegas Strip Circuit, pole position has been decided by less than a tenth of a second on both occasions.
George Russell holds the record for the largest pole margin here, having taken pole by 0.098 seconds in 2024. The smallest pole margin in Las Vegas is 0.044 seconds, which is the margin by which Charles Leclerc secured pole in 2023.
The average pole margin in Las Vegas is 0.071 seconds.
The average pole margin from the first two race weekends at the Las Vegas Grand Prix is just 0.071 seconds.
SATURDAY TO SUNDAY
The Las Vegas Grand Prix has been won from pole once.
In 2024, George Russell became the first Las Vegas Grand Prix polesitter to win the race. 2023 polesitter Charles Leclerc finished as runner-up in the year that he secured pole.
There’s yet to be a winner who did not start on the front row.
Both races so far have been won from the front row of the grid, with Max Verstappen winning from second in 2023. Both front row starters have finished on the podium in both races to date at the track.
2023 is the only occasion to date that the Las Vegas Grand Prix polesitter has not led at the end of Lap 1. Charles Leclerc ran second at the end of the first lap that year.
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SUNDAY STATS
100 Grand Prix laps have been raced at Las Vegas Strip Circuit.
Of the 100 laps raced at Las Vegas Strip Circuit, 11 drivers have completed every Grand Prix lap of the track to date. The list includes three drivers who will not take place in the 2025 race – Kevin Magnussen, Sergio Perez and Zhou Guanyu.
The 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix saw 23 drivers finish the race on the same lap as the leader.
That’s the record for the most number of drivers finishing on the same lap as the winner at this track. 2024 saw 16 drivers finish on the same lap as the leader.
In 2024, Esteban Ocon and Valtteri Bottas became the first drivers to finish the Las Vegas Grand Prix one lap down on the winner.
There have been two Safety Car periods here.
There have been two Safety Car deployments to date at the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
The 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix is the only race here which has featured a Safety Car, with it being necessitated twice in the first 30 laps.
No races here have been affected by rain.
We’re yet to see a rain-hit race in Las Vegas.
No driver has recorded a Grand Slam at the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
We’re yet to see a driver achieve the feat of taking pole, leading every lap, winning the race and setting the fastest lap in a single race weekend at Las Vegas Strip Circuit.
No driver has led every lap of a race at Las Vegas Strip Circuit.
No driver has led the Las Vegas Grand Prix from start to end. George Russell came close to doing so in 2024, but Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton led a single lap during the pit stop period.
George Russell holds the record for the most laps led on his way to victory in Las Vegas, with 49. Max Verstappen led 29 laps on his way to the 2023 race win – the fewest laps led en route to victory here.
Charles Leclerc is the driver to have led the most laps in Las Vegas without ever winning.
Charles Leclerc led 13 laps during the 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix but failed to win. Sergio Perez (8) and Lewis Hamilton (1) are the only other drivers to have led a lap here without taking a victory.
Three drivers led a lap of the 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix.
The 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix holds the record for the most drivers leading a lap at this track, with three different drivers having led during the race. Two drivers led in 2024.
The longest Grand Prix at this circuit lasted for one hours and 29 minutes.
There’s yet to be a race in Las Vegas which was longer than 90 minutes. Max Verstappen won in a time of one hour, 29 minutes and 8.290 seconds in 2023. The 2024 race was just over seven minutes shorter.
Only McLaren drivers have set the fastest lap of the race in Las Vegas.
Oscar Piastri set the fastest lap of the race in the 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix, while Lando Norris set a new Lap Record with his fastest lap in 2024. It means McLaren are the only team to have set the fastest lap here.
The overall finish rate at the Las Vegas Grand Prix is 87%.
From 40 total entries into races at Las Vegas Strip Circuit, all 40 cars have started the race. From those 40 cars, 35 have reached the chequered flag. That means, in total, 87.5% of cars which have started a race here have reached the end of it.
The highest number of cars to reach the end of a Grand Prix at this track is 18.
18 cars crossed the finish line in 2024, making it the races with the most finishers in Las Vegas.
The fewest number of cars to reach the end of the race came in 2023, when 17 drivers reached the end of the Grand Prix.
No Las Vegas races have been red-flagged.
We’re yet to see a red-flagged race at the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Both races here to date have run to their scheduled distance of 50 laps.
CHAMPIONSHIP GLORY
Verstappen is the only driver to win the title at the Las Vegas Grand Prix
In 2024, Max Verstappen won his fourth World Championship as a result of the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
While Verstappen is the only driver to have won the World Championship at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, the title has been decided on three of F1’s previous four visits to the city. In 1981, Nelson Piquet claimed his first title as a result of the Caesars Palace Grand Prix, while Keke Rosberg took his only title win as a result of the 1982 race.
2023 is the only year in which the winner of the Las Vegas Grand Prix has won that year’s title, while the polesitter has never won the title in the same year as they took pole position for the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
The team leading the Constructors’ Championship after the Las Vegas Grand Prix (Red Bull in 2023 and McLaren in 2024) has never failed to go on and win that year’s title.
The 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix is the only dead rubber race to have taken place so far in Las Vegas, with Max Verstappen and Red Bull having already secured the honours ahead of the race.
