By Rory Carroll

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) -Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Las Vegas Grand Prix on Saturday but McLaren’s Lando Norris had one hand on the Formula One title after finishing second and stretching his lead over teammate Oscar Piastri to 30 points.

Piastri finished fourth after Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli, who was ahead of the Australian at the chequered flag, had five seconds added for jumping the start.

George Russell, last year’s winner of the floodlit race and like Norris making his 150th start, completed the podium for Mercedes.

With two grands prix and a sprint to come, worth a maximum 58 points, Norris has 408 points to Piastri’s 378 with four-times world champion Verstappen still mathematically in contention on 366.

Norris finished 20.741 seconds behind but can now secur

See Full Page