Why Las Vegas is Ferrari's best chance to snare another 2023 F1 win from Red Bull

OPINION: Red Bull arrives at any 2023 Formula 1 race as the clear favourite thanks to the RB19’s crushing dominance. But the high-speed, low-downforce street track setting for the new Las Vegas circuit has plenty to offer one of its rivals. The only other grand prix winner this term…

Updated Nov 15, 2023, 10:24 AM

Amid all the talk and speculation swirling around Formula 1's return to Las Vegas this weekend, there’s still a non-so-humble sporting event at the centre of all the much-vaunted glitz and glamour. That famous pizzazz that might just be dimmed if the suggested traffic gridlock and mass walkouts by 35,000 protesting waiting staff turn out to be accurate…

So, then, who is the favourite to become the first F1 winner in Sin City since Michele Alboreto in 1982’s Caesars Palace car park grand prix?

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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.