What F1 could do to make 2023’s best race even better

OPINION: Formula 1’s return to Las Vegas got off to a terrible start with the track safety issues leading to fans being kicked out of grandstands, but it ended on a high note with an excellent race. So, what are the lessons on the ground for its 2024 follow up learned by those who were there?

Published Nov 21, 2023, 1:35 PM

The Las Vegas Grand Prix was, really, the best race of the 2023 Formula 1 season so far. And with just the Abu Dhabi finale next up, that mantle is already nailed on.

The key ingredients for last Saturday night’s engaging contest were these: an exciting track layout that favoured overtaking, controversy from the first corner clash between Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc, and a multi-team scrap for the first F1 victory in Vegas in 41 years.

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Author Alex Kalinauckas

Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.

A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.