Las Vegas Grand Prix – Formula 1: Live leaderboard and lap-by-lap updates as Max Verstappen looks to claim fourth-consecutive world title by outscoring Lando Norris

I guess you could say it’s been a ROCKY grid walk this morning…

Sylvester Stallone jokes that he would have been racing this morning if it wasn’t for a ‘bad ankle’.

Brundle responds: ‘Oh, I’m sorry to hear about that.’

Here we go, vintage Brundle.

After bumping into Paul Mescal he find himself face-to-face to the fastest man in the world Noah Lyles.

After introducing himself to the sprinter, a very loud Lyles shouts in his face that he can’t hear him as one of the cars picks exactly the right moment to start up and rev the engine.

Franco Colapinto is up next, who reassures that he is ‘a bit sore but ok’ after a nasty crash in qualifying.

Well I’m not sure that Martin Brundle has ever received a similar introduction to his grid walk as Bruce Buffer delcares him the greatest in the world in a truly bizarre set up you’d only see in Vegas.

We’ve already had the obligatory awkward exhanges from Martin, an icon in his own right, who has got his mic tangled up with a passerby and lost his camera.

He’s amazingly made it all the way through a melee of bodies without finding a single driver to chat to, but Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer comes to the rescue to talk Martin through Brad Pitt’s escapades last night to save us all.

This was the aerial view ahead of practice a couple of nights ago, and it’s not a bad one is it?

As you’d imagine, the big names are out in their droves this morning.

We’ve already seen Gladiator stars Paul Mescal and Pedro Mescal chatting to Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz on Sky’s coverage about everything down to the amount of torque drivers experience pulling away at lights out.

We’ve even had Brad Pitt out and about around the track during qualifying, w ith the Hollywood A-lister ‘fainting’ while filming some stunts for his upcoming movie.

And then there are the casual fans; so far we’ve had model Winnie Harlow, musician supreme John Legend and acting legend Terry Crewes in and around the paddock in the last hour or so.

With such a roster of famous faces, you fear for Martin Brundle who will have a busy, busy evening with his grid walk…

Even the flags have been given the Vegas treatment!

And look at all those lights! It’s a new course on the grid, but you can’t deny it’s already making a spectacular splash.

Did we expect anything remotely verging on traditional from Vegas?

Well we’ve mentioned the podium-sitters heading into the race this evening – or morning depending on wherever you’re watching! – but how did qualifying play out?

Well the first couple of practice sessions were dominated by Lewis Hamilton after a horror show at Interlagos, before his team-mate came out fastest by just 0.098s in quali.

But how did those three sessions play out yesterday, I hear you asking? Well you can take a look at the link below!

Welcome, welcome everyone to Mail Sport’s LIVE coverage of the Las Vegas Grand Prix!

The F1 circus – and an absolute glut of stars from cross the world – has arrived in Sin City for the most extravagent and flashy race in the calendar out in the Nevada desert.

We’ve got George Russell on pole ahead of Carlos Sainz and – yep, that’s right – Pierre Gasly completing the top three, but more on that a bit later!

Stick with us for the next 45 minutes or so as we take you through everything that’s happened over the last couple of days as we build up to lights out.