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Russell will therefore start the Las Vegas Grand Prix from pole position. Max Verstappen is ready to conquer the championship after qualifying, ahead of Lando Norris.

“Shit, shit, shit lap,” Leclerc fumes. “Tires felt completely different.” Verstappen says: “I gave it everything, mate. Super smooth.”

What a round from Gasly! He comes second next to Sainz. But he loses his grip on the front row when Russell takes pole position. And Hamilton’s miserable Q3 ends with him 10th after a mistake in turn two.

Russell goes fastest, Norris is second. A very strong middle sector for Leclerc and he takes provisional pole – only for Sainz to take it from him.

All drivers are out for their final runs, Hamilton vulnerable as the last driver to circulate and in 10th place. Leclerc’s first sector does not look good and he is only eighth.

Russell now ends up at the front, a 1’32.811 ahead of the Mercedes driver. Hamilton lost a lot of time in the middle sector – replay shows he left at Turn 12. That means he is 10th with no representative time.

Leclerc only sixth, he slid a lot in turn two. But his teammate puts one above the McLarens and goes ahead by two tenths of a second for provisional pole.

Piastri creates a huge shower of sparks as he approaches Turn 14, recording a 1’33.520. Norris beats that and gains a lot of time in the last sector.

The barrier repairs are complete and Q3 starts in three minutes.

The start of Q3 is of course postponed while the Williams is recovered and the track is cleared.

So Q2 is over and Colapinto is out together with drivers from four other teams: Lawson, Ocon, Magnussen and Zhou.

Replay shows Colapinto clipping the apex barrier at Turn 16, sending him crashing into the wall on the outside. There is a lot of damage to his Williams.

Colapinto crashed! Even more pain for Williams as another of their cars is in the barrier. He moves in the car.

Hamilton improves with a 1’32.567, Zhou misses the top 10 by less than a tenth of a second.

With two minutes to go, Gasly, Colapinto, Ocon, Lawson and Zhou are in the drop zone.

Russell ended up under the 1’33 barrier, two tenths ahead of Verstappen, with Hamilton following him in second place.

One Red Bull is out, the other is the fastest, Verstappen records a 1’33.085. However, Russell has started his second run and is on course to beat this one.

Hamilton goes the fastest, only a thousandth of a second faster than Piastri. The Ferrari drivers run last, Leclerc’s race engineer Bryan Bozzi calms his driver, who expresses concern that they will be vulnerable when he is called to the weighbridge.

Q2 is finished, but Perez remains behind, together with Aston Martin drivers Alexander Albon and Valtteri Bottas.

The Mercedes drivers set up a one-two, but Perez is in sixteenth place and he is out!

Perez is only twelfth, he is three-tenths of a second safe, but is that enough?

Great job from the Aston Martin team getting Stroll on track. He may not have enough time for a preparation lap like the others do, but he can get some time.

Russell is now the fastest with a 1’33.363, ahead of Leclerc, Piastri, Sainz and Norris. The Haas drivers move into the top 10, so the drop zone is now Bottas, Colapinto, Perez, Lawson and Stroll.

Stroll is heading for elimination unless Aston Martin can get him on track quickly. The Haas drivers are ready to break out of the drop zone, Bottas and Ocon are already there, Zhou and Lawson are in danger.

Charles Leclerc temporarily goes fastest – Piastri then beats that by half a second. Norris ends up a tenth behind.

Yuki Tsunoda impressively splits the Mercedes pair, leaving Fernando Alonso fifth in the only Aston Martin to date. The Haas pair also have to set times.

A pair of 1’34.0s put the McLarens at the top, Piastri in the lead. The Mercedes duo follows behind them. The Ferrari drivers drive their first laps.

Gasly improves to a 1’34.846 which Sergio Perez cannot beat, he finishes fourth. Lando Norris has just entered the track ahead of Max Verstappen’s other Red Bull.

Pierre Gasly gets the ball rolling with a 1’43.773 on soft tires – not nearly as fast. Russell made a pit stop and apparently only scrubbed a set of medium tires. The Sauber drivers set the first representative times.

Russell is at the front of the queue at the pit lane exit, ready to go when the sessions start. He leads the field with a set of medium compound tires on his Mercedes. Most of the people behind him seem to be riding softs.

Aston Martin says they are still working to get Lance Stroll’s car repaired in time for Q1. An energy recovery system on his AMR24 failed late in the final practice and is being replaced.

However, Red Bull have dismissed speculation that they failed to bring the right rear wing with them this weekend. “We haven’t forgotten our rear wing,” team boss Christian Horner told Sky. “There’s no problem with it. I don’t know exactly where it comes from, but we don’t have a specifically designed wing for very low downforce, which is basically here and in Monza. You must choose what you spend the money on within the cost ceiling. So with the wing we have, you end up having to trim the wings to get top speed and that’s what a lot of teams have done.”

Red Bull only looked fast in the latter stages of final practice, where Max Verstappen declared he was much happier with the car. Given the many long straights on the Las Vegas Strip Circuit, it is unusual for the team to use a ‘high downforce’ hood package.

Charles Leclerc took pole position for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix last year. Ferrari hasn’t looked as competitive as expected so far this weekend. Are they hiding their potential or have they suffered more than their rivals as a result of the FIA’s recent clarification on floor skid pads?

Mercedes has been fastest in all three practice sessions so far. Can they repeat that in qualifying? George Russell has taken both pole positions so far this year, in Montreal (where he set an identical time to Max Verstappen) and most recently at Silverstone in July.

Qualifying for the 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix is ​​coming up.

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