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Max Verstappen took pole position for the season-ending Abu Grand Prix on Saturday and will look to finish a crushingly dominant year with a 19th win.

Victory on Sunday would take the Red Bull driver onto 54 career wins, past Sebastian Vettel and into third place all time.

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Lewis Hamilton predicts more years of Red Bull's tyranny if not remedied by F1's governing body following the team's latest victory at the 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix as their ruthless dominant run continues in Formula 1.

Red Bull's RB19 is the most dominant car in living memory winning 20 of the 21 races contested in F1's 2023 season, with Max Verstappen claiming 18 of them. On top of that, it has given them such a margin, that it has allowed them to work on improving it for next year earlier than competitors according to Hamilton.

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Former New England Patriots quarterback, Tom Brady, has apologised to Logan Sargeant for skipping the final American race of the Formula 1 season despite being expected to make an appearance at the Las Vegas Grand Prix.

November 18 marked the first time since 1982 that F1 cars have thundered around Sin City in an expensive VIP event produced by local hotels and Liberty Media, who own the sport.

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At the inaugural Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix, music and entertainment have taken a dominant role. As the elite motorsport experiments with the new race, A-list events are ubiquitous in Sin City, an unignorable part of the celebration.

Here are some of the highlights.

DAY TWO: TRACK DAMAGED BUT THE BEAT GOES ON
On Thursday, at a Sinatra-themed restaurant in the lobby of the Encore casino, Colombian reggaetonero J Balvin emerged in all black leather.

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Max Verstappen took yet another win at the Brazilian Grand Prix, his 17th of the season, followed by Lando Norris. However, the star of the race was Fernando Alonso, who managed to get on the podium again, after an epic fight with the brave Checo Perez, in which the Mexican ended up taking a 0.053 second defeat after leaving everything on the track.

It has been 18 years since Michael Schumacher's duel with Fernando at Imola, the day he was driving with an engine problem and today's duel was much the same, showing that at 42 years old, his talent is still as strong as it was that day in 2005.

His car was slower, mainly due to the fact that Checo Perez had DRS for 17 laps and that allowed him to chase the Spaniard time and time again. Alonso had to fight to hold on until the penultimate lap, where Checo Perez overtook him, but he refused to give up.

He made up ground on the final lap and passed the Mexican, before making a defensive move right at the limit of the regulations, with a very dangerous change of direction under braking. Despite his rival's determination, Alonso won the battle, but not without suffering at the finish line, with both cars running parallel to each other.