It is countdown to Saturday’s Las Vegas Grand Prix, not only the first, but the swankiest, most garish, most Super Bowl-like extravagance Formula One has ever staged. Vegas’s introduction means there are three races a year that side of the Pond — Miami, in its second season, and Austin, added in 2012 and one of 10 venues to have staged the US Grand Prix since 1908. Formula One bosses now hope to stage their shinier Las Vegas reincarnation for a decade — maybe more, on the basis that if it works, why stop?. ‘They love blood, sweat and tears in America — certainly tears and joy — and if I were Formula One I’d have an unwritten guarantee that the world championship is decided in Las Vegas. If I were in charge of Formula One, I’d do everything within my power to make sure that, by hook or by crook, he wins in Las Vegas.

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