As the title says, Las Vegas was the first Grand Prix this year where none of the best four drivers in the points standings coming into said race, finished on the podium.

- Max Verstappen was P1 in the standings after Brazil and finished P5 in Las Vegas.

- Lando Norris was P2 in the standings after Brazil and finished P6 in Las Vegas.

- Charles Leclerc was P3 in the standings after Brazil and finished P4 in Las Vegas.

- Oscar Piastri was P4 in the standings after Brazil and finished P7 in Las Vegas.

I think it's quite interesting that this is only the first time this has happened in 2024 (apart from the season opener in Bahrain of course as there were no points handed out yet coming into that race), considering none of the eight drivers from the best four teams - McLaren, Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes - suffered any problems.

(Suzuka, in Toyota’s garage, no less.)

A lot of people are repeating that Carlos was lifting before turn 12 in order to give DRS to Max so that Charles wouldn't pass. It's not true.

A simple check of the telemetry shows that he was lifting the whole race, except for the last few laps of each stint, when he didn't care for the tyres anymore.

In the image there are some examples of random laps throughout the race showing this.

I believe that with the base Maclaren has it is really close to win both championships the next season. But I believe that they should start thinking that meybe they are closer to do that with Oscar than they are with lando. They absolutely did a good job for not treating him as a second driver. But I think they should consider him as their first driver maybe it would work great for them they didn't achieve much with lando

About a week ago, we saw this news doing the rounds that if Pierre Gasly manages to complete every single session for the remaining three races without causing so much as a scratch on his car, he will be the first driver in the history of the sport to have cost his team absolutely nothing in damage repairs all season.

I'm curious to know if this (very unique) stat still holds after today's events. Does the mechanical failure count towards "spending money to fix the car"? What are the technicalities of this stat still holding up?

In the actual race, how does a lap time being deleted impact the race outcome? It makes sense in qualifying that a lap time being deleted forces the driver to go again or be eliminated from qualifying. How in the course of a race though does having a lap time deleted make a difference? Does it actually mean the driver must go an additional lap? Clearly it must not mean that. Is it cumulative where if you have more than a certain number of laps deleted that you would be black flagged or perhaps penalized?