LAS VEGAS - A year after clinching his fourth consecutive World Drivers' Championship on the Strip, Red Bull's Max Verstappen maintained a sliver of hope for a fifth with a stellar showing at the Las Vegas Grand Prix.

After the FIA finished with its postrace inspections, those hopes grew exponentially with the disqualifications of McLaren's Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri because the thickness of the rearmost skid of both cars was less than the required thickness.

When Verstappen concluded the postrace press conference on Saturday, he was 36 points back from Lando Norris and in third place in the standings despite notching eight straight podiums and three wins in his last four races. The championship remained an afterthought, but he could at least be proud of how his Red Bull team was fin

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