Russell breaks 43-year F1 record with dominant Las Vegas win

George Russell's dominant victory in the Las Vegas Grand Prix set a new all-time F1 record, breaking a 43-year record in the process.

From pole position, Russell claimed his second grand prix win of the season following triumphing in Austria earlier in the season. 

He led home Lewis Hamilton for the first Mercedes one-two since the 2022 Sao Paulo Grand Prix, with Carlos Sainz third, Charles Leclerc fourth and new world champion Max Verstappen fifth.

In winning the race, Russell became the seventh different driver to win multiple races in a single season - eclipsing the previous record of six set in the 1981 campaign. 

There were actually seven different winners in the 15 round 1981 season, but John Watson only claimed a single win, with the other six winning at least two times each, as the table below shows.

There is still the opportunity for there to be eight multiple winners in 2024, providing a driver who has yet to win a race this year wins in both Qatar and Abu Dhabi.

The record for most winners in a single season came in 1982, with 11 different winners from 16 races.