A fifth place finish at the Las Vegas Grand Prix was enough to crown Max Verstappen as the 2024 F1 world champion.

The 27-year-old won his fourth consecutive championship in a race where he outscored rival Lando Norris, who finished one place behind him on the streets of Las Vegas.

While he was unable to fight for victory or a podium, outscoring Norris means that Verstappen is now 63 points ahead of the British driver with 60 to play for in the final 2 rounds of the season.

That means that Verstappen becomes a four time champion in F1, becoming only the fifth driver in F1 history to win four titles in a row following Juan Manuel Fangio, Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton. Alain Prost is the sport’s only other man to win four championships.

Team-mate Sergio Perez finished in 10th and picked up the final championship point, having had to launch a recovery drive after starting from 16th place on the grid.

The result means Red Bull remain third in the constructor’s championship, with the Milton Keynes-based team now 53 points behind leaders McLaren and 29 points behind second place Ferrari ahead of the final two rounds of the season in Qatar and Abu Dhabi.

Verstappen’s race in Las Vegas was a fairly straight-forward one, where he ultimately finished in the 5th position where he qualified. He had managed to jump ahead of others during the second round of pit-stops, but was bypassed by Lewis Hamilton and the Ferrari pair of Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc, with the Dutchman finishing 16 and a half seconds behind race winner George Russell.

However, with Norris and McLaren unable to hit the heights seen at other races this year with a car that couldn’t keep up with the Red Bull, it allowed Verstappen to finish ahead of Norris, in the process confirming he would finish the Las Vegas Grand Prix with the world championship.

Perez had started out of position after a sixth Q1 exit of the season. While he was unable to get closer to the higher end of the points, he was able to gain some momentum including making a double pass on Liam Lawson and Kevin Magnussen before overtaking Fernando Alonso in the final laps to pick up the final point of the Las Vegas Grand Prix.