Pitwall

On the softs Lewis was eighth of 21 cars through the speed trap and Lec was 19th, so in the dry the straight was mostly Lec's problem.

Only Kimi has won from pole more often over the same two seasons, 6 times from 7, all of them this year.

In 12 Monaco starts Valtteri has never finished higher than third, and that stuck wheel in 2021 took him out of second place.

Lec started the first Las Vegas race from pole in 2023 and finished second, and he has come fourth there in both races since.

With three races left this year, Max can take this run to 11 at most, four short of his best.

Ferrari's speed-trap gap to Red Bull was 11 km/h on the inters in the first 13 laps, and it shrank once the track dried but never went away.

Eddie Irvine turns 61 today, and in his first Grand Prix, at Suzuka in 1993, he scored a point and then got punched by the winner, Ayrton Senna.

Carlos won all four of his Grands Prix with Ferrari as well, and he gets to 250 in Las Vegas with Williams, his fifth team.

Isack has outscored Oscar at five of the six weekends since Madrid, and there are 75 points left in the last three races.

Lewis set the ninth-fastest lap of 21 on each of the first three laps, and only one car was slower than him on laps 8, 9 and 10.

Before Sunday, the most anyone had gained in the first five laps of a race since 2023 was 13 places, by Arvid in Kuala Lumpur and Zhou at Zandvoort.

Kimi has won nine Grands Prix in his second season, more than any driver before him, and he still has three races left to add to it.

Before Sunday, Max had gained eight places at most in the opening five laps of a race since 2023, at Interlagos in 2024 and in Melbourne this March.

Lewis did it a lap down in ninth, and Max in second was almost a second slower on the same tyres.

George's last podium was his win in Baku in September, and Kimi has made the podium in four of the five races since.

Pierre set it at the end of lap 34 while sitting 0.2s behind Alex's Williams down the main straight, so he had a tow.