LAS VEGAS -- Just over three hours after Lando Norris crossed the line in second place at the Las Vegas Grand Prix , both his car and that of McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri were disqualified from the results .

Wear on the plank -- a strip of composite material on the underside of a Formula 1 car -- was found to be beyond the permitted amount, leaving the stewards with no choice but to strike both from the final classification.

On Norris' car, the wear was 0.12 millimeters over the limit, and on Piastri's, it was 0.26. To put that in context, the width of the average human hair is between 0.17 to 0.181 millimeters, raising the possibility that Norris could quite literally miss out on the title by less than a hair's width if Saturday night's race winner, Max Verstappen , beats

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