WAS THERE. A WITNESS TO THE FIRST EVER Las Vegas GP. Well, I suppose it’s the third ever Grand Prix held in the city, but the races in the Caesar’s Palace car park in ’81 and ’82 don’t really count. They may have decided two drivers’ championships, but those events and the scrappy, vaguely embarrassing temporary circuit on which they were held simply didn’t have the scale and ambition of this latest experiment. Formula 1 shut down Las Vegas Boulevard! Literally. The whole city stood still as modern F1 came
