Red Bull's Max Verstappen won the Las Vegas Grand Prix on Saturday and roared back into the Formula One title battle after the shock disqualification of McLaren's championship leader Lando Norris and teammate Oscar Piastri.

Norris finished the race second and Piastri finished fourth but both were disqualified more than four hours later after their McLarens were found to have excessively worn down the skid planks on the underside of their cars.

On the brink of insolvency five years ago, the team is now dominating on the Formula 1 track—and, under the leadership of CEO Zak Brown, building up its sponsorships to rival Ferrari and Mercedes.

It’s fitting that Penguin Publishing Group released Zak Brown’s Seven Tenths of a Second this week, just before the F1 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix. Brown is the CEO of McLaren Racing, whose Formula 1 team may wrap up the 2025 F1 World Drivers Championship in Vegas this weekend.

A "weakness" in the regulations was exposed, says the FIA, when McLaren raised a cost cap query over Max Verstappen's engine change.