Exciting cut-throat competition: Verstappen (front) finds it difficult to get rid of Ferrari driver Leclerc on the way to his 53rd Grand Prix victory.
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The world champion also won the most entertaining Formula 1 race of the season in the Red Bull, this time just ahead of Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc and his teammate Sergio Pérez. But the Las Vegas show has an aftermath.
Elvis lives. Where if not in Vegas? Before Formula 1 raced through the canyons between the casinos of the “sinful” city late on Saturday evening (local time), tens of thousands of spectators were treated to Presley’s hit song “Viva Las Vegas”. They agreed delightedly. 50 laps later, Max Verstappen, the King of Formula 1, discovered his inner King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. “Viva Las Vegas!” roared the Dutchman in the cockpit of his company car. Was it the overalls? It was modeled on Presley’s white show costume.
It is more likely that Verstappen knew that his victory was not the kind of relaxed Sunday tour – it was still Saturday. And that he didn’t want to be a grump again after winning a Grand Prix for the 53rd time in his career, two seconds ahead of Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) and Sergio Pérez in the second Red Bull. Verstappen triumphed 18 times this year. Or to put it this way: someone else won only three times. But the fact that the organizers of the Vegas tour had tried for a year to talk about a new Super Bowl angered Verstappen. He never made any secret of this.
2023-11-20 03:43:15
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