Who impressed our 2025 las vegas grand prix formula judges?

Max Verstappen took an important win at the Las Vegas Grand Prix, and both McLaren drivers qualified, beating Lando Norris’ championship lead to 24 points. The Dutchman lit up our top powerhouse list, but who impressed last weekend? Check out the latest scores and the full leaderboard below…

How does this work

• Our panel of five judges assessed each driver after every Grand Prix and ranked them in the top 10 based on their performance over the weekend – taking machinery out of the equation
• Our experts’ scores are then expressed to produce a race score – and those scores are then scaled up across our leaderboards (bottom of page).

As you have found Poleman Lando Norris when the driver of McLaren burns 1 wide, Max Verstappen has never looked back on the way to Win 2025 for the 2025 campaign. The Red Bulld Driver had to put up with the pressure from George Russell’s Mercedell, but after that he blazed to a 20-plus win. With Norris and Team Mate Oscar Piastri both allowed, Verstappen remains a real threat for the title with two Grand Prix and the sprchman left, as the dutchman remains tied in points with piastri and norris.

A devastating qualifying on the left Kimi Antonelli is only P17 on the grid as he moves freely before the lights go out and will get the Mercedes driver a fifth penalty. Otherwise, the formula 1 rookie put in an inspired drive, switching off his soft tires on the second lap and running the remaining 48 laps with a set of hard tyres. He moved to fourth, holding the pastries of Bay and he only went down after the checkered flag due to the penalty, before the meclaren of disqualification moved the unfavorable podium.

The seventh position of the season – obtained in tricky conditions – put Norris in the main position to win and accept to put one hand on the MAIDEN World Championship. The Briton cut furiously across the front of Verstappen at the line but raced deep into turn 1, dropping behind both Verstappen and Russell. Bidding his time to catch up with Russell at the second station, Norris was comfortable in P2 until he backed up heavily on the FINAL LAPH. The team’s call is linked to concerns about skid block wear that could be seen as useless as it was allowed – a result that could have major headlines.

Another surprising low performance engagement, a baku-like fast lap left carlos sainz third on the grid, ultimately P5 in the final split. The Williams driver lost position to Russell at the start but held off fast cars including Charles Leclerc and Piastri at Bay over the opening stint, only to have pit sequence after pit sequence after pit sequence. Promoted two places due to McLaren’s disqualification, Sainz achieved his second best result of the season after his baku podium, finishing more than 10 seconds clear of Hadjar.

Just as it missed the appearance of Q3 after finishing P11 in the performance, Nico Hulkenberg used a heavy tire in the opening gas compared to all those working on intermediate rubber. Extending his first STINT, which allowed him to finally join in P9, the Kick Sauber Driver never looked back and jumped all the way to the Final Classication. The team went four and five points respectively to Aston Martin and Haas in the ChanctAs dealers

The winner in Las Vegas 12 months ago, Russell finally had to settle for a place to run in 2025, bringing the controversy of direction to the opening room. It did not prevent the Mercedes driver from jumping ahead of polleman norris on the first lap, however, the Briton even challenged Verstappen for the first place. Pushing hard in second channel destroyed his tires and allowed Norris to drop back, but P2 was the start of McLaren’s breach.

Going under the radar, Hadjar bagged multiple bullpen chase points and back-to-back scores in a process that has been split six times in Las Vegas. The Frenchman qualified P8 but moved several positions in the opening transition, finding himself initially in Fifth before being passed again by McLaren’s McLaren and Leclerc’s Ferrari in the opening position. Having made his pit stop, Denjar was distributed alone with a second stint to strengthen the bulls’ championship.

Having struggled for pace in the wet, leclerrrt charged during the race and eventually just crossed the podium by twenty-two. Starting P9 and just blocked from the opening corner, Leclerc moved forward and asked Ollie Bearman, the driver and Adjar, and Sainz as the Williams came out of the pits. The right strategy meant that he regrouped behind the piastri and moved away from the MCLAREn driver and the leading antonelli, the Ferrari driver eventually separated P4.

Left only P5 on the grid, Piastri dropped behind the race bulls at the first corner involving contact with Liam Lawson. The Kiwi suffered a second fee that allowed PiaSTRI to go back, but the McLaren driver then drove leclerc in the opening station, only to go back in the pit sequence. He stuck behind antonelli in the last stage and finally qualified to appear in P4, the 30-point gap on Norris just goes to Qatar.

Going about his business quietly, Esteban Ocon raced to the edge of the TOP 10 to get the most cases, as he started P13 and finally finished without points in P11. McLaren’s Double Disqualification helped move OCON and Haas Team Mate Barman into the points, the American team moving ahead of Aston Martin in the group leaders by one point as a result.

To lose

Barman just missed out on a place in the top half of this week’s power rankings, with the Briton running in the points in the first stages and overtaking Fernando Alonso in the second stage before taking P10.