There’s never been a faster, more jaw-dropping 180-degree turn than the one Max Verstappen took a year ago at the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix. The Dutchman hated the event even before he arrived — local residents were also outraged, but for different reasons — and argued the showcase event of Liberty Media’s F1 portfolio had become a spectacle instead of a sporting event. The enormous, illuminated Sphere on the Strip rotated driver images, prices for anything from tickets to hotel rooms were very expensive and Liberty is believed to have spent close to a $1 billion to promote its first Formula 1 event.