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Las Vegas to host ‘insane’ Formula 1 Grand Prix worth ‘£1billion’ from 2023 – Lewis Hamilton can’t wait to hit ‘party city’ and Mick Schumacher jokes he’ll be in casinos

Formula 1 will be heading to Las Vegas from 2023 after a new deal, worth a reported £1billion, was announcedand Lewis Hamilton can’t wait.

“It’s a real party city,” the Mercedes driver laughed. “It’s really difficult for a racing driver – how am I going to focus that weekend? There’s going to be so much going on.”


The Las Vegas Grand Prix will be added to the F1 calendar from 2021

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Meanwhile former teammate Valtteri Bottas is hoping to clean up his act, joking: “I might need to behave better than I did last time.”

The Las Vegas Grand Prix, which will be the third race in the USA, will include a portion of the famous Nevada resort city’s Strip.

It is anticipated that the race will be staged in the the second half of November, possibly to coincide with Thanksgiving weekend in America, and could start as late as 10pm local time – 6am the following day in the UK.

The race will also defer from recent F1 tradition by taking place on a Saturday.

The announcement was greeted with joy from some of the drivers in a video on instagram.

Pierre Gasly queried: “Are we going to take that main [road]?”


The layout in Las Vegas will take drivers down the iconic strip

Will Hamilton and Verstappen rival each other in Las Vegas?

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