Max Verstappen, needing just three points over Lando Norris at the Las Vegas Grand Prix to seal a fourth consecutive Formula 1 championship, is suddenly in jeopardy of being denied the crown Saturday night.

The city of Las Vegas has brutally trolled Sergio Perez after the under-fire Red Bull driver crashed out of Q1 in another embarrassing chapter of a horror season. Mercedes’ George Russell will start from pole ahead of Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz with a shock on the second row of the grid with Alpine’s Pierre Gasly putting in a stunning lap.

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen failed to find traction during the Las Vegas Grand Prix practice, suggesting that the problem was not related to the balance of h