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Method 1: How Max Verstappen can clinch the 2024 world championship at Las Vegas
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Method 1: How Max Verstappen can clinch the 2024 world championship at Las Vegas

Motorsports November 19, 2024
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Max Verstappen can cap a late evening in Las Vegas along with his fourth consecutive Method 1 world championship.

Verstappen enters the Las Vegas Grand Prix (1 a.m. ET Sunday, ESPN) with a 62-point lead over Lando Norris because of a victory within the São Paulo Grand Prix. Norris began on the pole in that race however rapidly misplaced the lead as Verstappen drove by way of the sphere for a convincing win over Alpine teammates Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly.

The three-time champion added 15 factors to his lead over Norris after Norris completed sixth within the Grand Prix the day after successful the dash. Norris had gained three factors on Verstappen within the dash race, however misplaced 18 factors within the Grand Prix.

Verstappen’s dominant Grand Prix efficiency in Brazil means he merely must maintain Norris in his rear-view mirror in Las Vegas to clinch the title. With two Grand Prix races and one dash race remaining after this weekend’s race, there are solely a most of 60 factors accessible.

Which means Verstappen can clinch the title in any variety of methods in Vegas. If he finishes forward of Norris and each drivers rating factors, he’s the champion. If neither driver scores factors, Verstappen is the champion. And even when Norris finishes as excessive as fourth with out scoring the quickest lap of the race, Verstappen remains to be the champion if he finishes one spot behind him.

Yeah, this title race is over. Although it’s at the least been higher than the earlier two championship battles have been.

Verstappen clinched the 2022 title with 4 races to go. A season in the past, he clinched it with 5 races remaining as he gained 19 of the season’s 2022 races. That outstanding feat included 17 wins throughout the final 18 races of the season as Carlos Sainz’s win in Singapore was the one victory for a non-Crimson Bull driver all season lengthy.

There’s been extra parity this season. Seven drivers throughout 4 groups have gained races this season, and Verstappen’s Crimson Bull teammate Sergio Perez isn’t amongst that group. Earlier than his win in Brazil, Verstappen hadn’t gained for the reason that Spanish Grand Prix on June 23.

That summer season swoon of types allowed Norris to get into the title combine. Norris took two wins throughout Verstappen’s run of 10 races with out a victory, although there’s a critical argument to be made that he ought to have scored extra victories as Verstappen saved lacking out on victory lane. Dangerous begins have plagued Norris all season lengthy, and McLaren had him transfer over for Oscar Piastri in Hungary in July.

Verstappen, in the meantime, saved scoring respectable finishes in a automotive that isn’t almost as dominant because it was the previous two seasons. Verstappen by no means completed decrease than sixth in these 10 races with out a win as Perez has been out to pasture. In that very same stretch, Perez’s finest end was one sixth and he completed outdoors of the factors thrice.

If Verstappen had struggled like Perez, maybe Norris would have an actual shot at his first title. As an alternative, Verstappen’s capability to wring strong outcomes out of a automotive that has been outpaced by each Ferrari and McLaren at numerous factors is why he is about to be the fifth driver in F1 historical past with at the least 4 consecutive titles.

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