Formula 1 is back - and here's what at stake

F1 returns at Dutch GP: What's still to come and what's at stake in second part of 2023 season A jam-packed global run-in, racing on the streets of Las Vegas, unique pieces of history on the line, and the final calls in the driver market; Watch the first race after the summer break this weekend on Sky Sports F1, with Sunday's Dutch GP starting at 2pm By James Galloway Last Updated: 21/08/23 5:59am Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Watch the most viral moments so far from the 2023 Formula 1 season Watch the most viral moments so far from the 2023 Formula 1 season What races are left?Ten races in 14 weeks.That's the busy schedule that will take Formula 1's stars and cars through the final three months of the 2023 season when action resumes for the first time in nearly four weeks at Zandvoort on Friday. With the closing weeks of the European season and the return of the longer-haul flyaways, the back-end of a Formula 1 season offers plenty of intrigue and the run-in to the end of this particular campaign is especially busy.The headlines for the remaining events include:Races on four continents and in nine different countriesThe first-ever Las Vegas Grand PrixThree double-headers and one triple-headerTwo street tracksThree sprint weekendsEarly-morning and primetime evening UK race startsSo when is the Las Vegas GP? Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Lewis Hamilton, Sergio Perez and George Russell put on a dazzling demonstration run for the Las Vegas Grand Prix launch party Lewis Hamilton, Sergio Perez and George Russell put on a dazzling demonstration run for the Las Vegas Grand Prix launch party Ah yes, Vegas.Possibly the most-anticipated new event of all-time in the sport will see F1's stars and cars taking to the world-famous Las Vegas Strip on November 17-19.On a 14-corner track specially designed to run past such famous landmarks such as Caesars Palace and the Bellagio, the race will run under floodlights on Saturday evening in the States - with the action live at 6am on the Sunday morning for UK viewers on Sky Sports F1.F1 has raced in Las Vegas before, back in 1981-82, but this is an altogether bigger deal with the sport's increased popularity in the States underlined by what's likely to be an incredibly glitzy and star-studded occasion in one of the most famous places on Earth. The races left live on Sky Sports F1 in 2023 Date Grand Prix UK race start time August 25-27 Dutch GP 2pm September 1-3 Italian GP 2pm September 15-17 Singapore GP 1pm September 22-24 Japanese GP 6am October 6-8 Qatar GP* 6pm October 20-22 United States GP* 8pm October 27-29 Mexico City GP 8pm November 3-5 Sao Paulo GP* 5pm November 17-19 Las Vegas GP 6am November 24-26 Abu Dhabi GP 1pm *Sprint weekend How soon could Verstappen clinch the title? An astonishing 125 points clear of second place in the world championship as the season resumes and on a run of eight consecutive race victories, there's surely no doubting already where this year's crown is headed - Max Verstappen, for the third year running.His monster points advantage is the equivalent of five race wins (and you can make that six over the first non-Red Bull driver in the championship).The more realistic question then perhaps is just how soon could the Dutchman mathematically wrap up his third title?Naturally, it depends on the points head-to-heads against team-mate Sergio Perez, and the other remaining mathematical chasers, in the forthcoming rounds but an earlier coronation than even last year (four rounds to go) appears achievable.The earliest Verstappen could wrap up the crown would theoretically be at the Japanese GP in four races' time on September 24. But that would require him to hold an advantage of at least 180 points over the pack, which is probably pushing it barring a string of difficult point-less weekends for all of his nearest challengers in the next races (Zandvoort, Monza and Singapore).It's therefore more conceivable that Verstappen will clinch the crown at the following round in Qatar on October 6-8, a sprint weekend where he'd need to hold an advantage of 146 points by the end of the Sunday to retain his title.Can any rival, or anything, stop Red Bull from going unbeaten? Red Bull's 12/12 Sunday scorecard to this point of the season has raised the spectre of them achieving an invincible campaign of race wins, a feat never achieved in F1's 64-year history.It was McLaren who famously got closest in 1988, during their golden Ayrton Senna-Alain Prost era. They only missed out by one victory thanks to that year's Italian GP at Monza, when race leader Senna and backmarker Jean-Louis Schlesser collided.There were only 16 races on the calendar back then, so the Red Bull team of 2023 would have to navigate six further rounds still unbeaten were they to set a unique