What began as a star-studded sprint down the Strip ended in a rule-book twist that rattled the championship race.

The connection with F1 began in 1950, the year the sport launched the first World Championship of Drivers, now the Drivers’ Championship. According to both the company and F1, Paul Chandon-Moët and his cousin Count Frédéric Chandon de Briailles toasted Argentine driver Juan Manuel Fangio with Moët after his French Grand Prix victory.

Here's everything that you didn't see at the 2025 Formula 1 Grand Prix on Saturday, Nov. 22, from the celebrity-filled red carpet with an appearance by Beyoncé and Jay-Z to the trackside action with Max Verstappen named champion.

A fifth consecutive Formula 1 championship is within Max Verstappen’s reach following the disqualifications of contenders Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri after Saturday night’s Las Vegas Grand Prix. Verstappen won the event for the second time in three years to close the gap on Norris to just 42 points with two races

But the grand prix itself did not yield a huge amount of action. After Verstappen took the lead at Turn 1, he was able to keep the race under control. In the chasing pack, there were fewer position swaps than the past two years in Las Vegas, as it too suffered from the current overtaking struggles being felt within F1 right now.

Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko had a laugh when McLaren told Lando Norris to attack the dominant Max Verstappen during the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix. The four-time world champion won from second on the grid after overtaking poleman Norris at Turn 1, as the McLaren driver went wide having defended the inside too aggressively.

Wet races are boring, cars are slow and there's no racing. The only entertainment is driver mistakes. Sir or ma'am, you are an idiot. cars are not slow, and there is racing most of the time.

Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen welcomed his daughter Lily in 2025 with longtime partner Kelly Piquet. Here is everything to know his child.

Sure, the fact that the reigning title holder of the World Drivers’ Championship, Max Verstappen, finished first—something he has done five times previously this season and now 69 times in his career—is no real surprise. The unexpected part was how the field behind him bounced around in positioning as if on a roulette wheel.