Hamilton leads Mercedes one-two in Vegas practice

Lewis Hamilton led George Russell to a Mercedes one-two successful archetypal signifier astatine the Las Vegas Grand Prix.

Hamilton headed Russell by 0.396 aft they traded fastest times astatine the extremity of the session, having acceptable the gait passim the hour.

McLaren’s Lando Norris, inactive technically successful the rubric fight, was 3rd fastest, portion title person Max Verstappen’s Red Bull was 5th down Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.

Verstappen heads Norris by 62 points with 3 races remaining and volition clinch his 4th rubric arsenic agelong arsenic helium is not out-scored by Norris by much than 2 points.

Drivers battled a low-grip way with plumes of particulate pursuing the cars aboriginal connected arsenic they cleaned up a year’s worthy of ungraded successful the godforsaken city.

But though a fig ended up successful the run-off country astatine Turn 14 astatine the extremity of the celebrated Strip, determination were nary accidents successful a mostly uneventful session.

Carlos Sainz successful the 2nd Ferrari was sixth fastest, up of Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso.

McLaren’s Oscar Piastri, Alpine’s Pierre Gasly and Red Bull’s Sergio Perez completed the apical 10.