ROUND 22: United States ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ


FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN SILVER LAS VEGAS GRAND PRIX 2023


Circuit stats


  • First Grand Prix: 2023
  • Number of laps: 50
  • Circuit Length: 6.201 km
  • Race Distance: 310.05 km
  • Lap record: N/A
  • **2022 winner:**N/A

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7 points

Wouldโ€™ve hoped theyโ€™d use the Sphere for more than just a glorified ad board.

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3 points

The sphere just looks like it is there for looking good on shots. Not really sure how useful it will be for anything else.

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3 points

I hoped to see some cool graphics. Anything but ads.

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2 points

Yeah maybe it can have the leader board on it so that anyone in Vegas can see but that would be against the monetary interests of FOM ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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2 points

But it is just a glorified ad board.

Not sure what else you think they use it forโ€ฆ Especially in F1, in which adverts whizz around a track surrounded by other adverts.

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1 point
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Itโ€™s Vegas!

What would you really expect? Money-in is all they care about. Interesting doesnโ€™t equal money-in.

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5 points

How long will FP3 be? 9 minutes? 90 minutes? Could be anything!

I wonder how dirty the circuit will be from being reopened and how fast itโ€™ll return to form

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6 points

Do they close the the roads on other city tracks for the entire 3 days? I get itโ€™s a pain but seems like a good way to avoid a lot of the issues. But itโ€™s a city track the city should be ready for detours and shit for a weekend. Idk seems like poor planning on Vegas point.

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7 points

Albert Park is closed for like 2 weeks before the race, but I guess itโ€™s a low traffic area regardless, itโ€™s not exactly the strip.

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3 points

They do for Baku and for Monaco as far as I understand. I dunno about the rest. It sure seems so at Singapore from what I can tell

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2 points

Thatโ€™s what I thought. It looked like Singapore and Monaco were shut down by the pictures. I have a feeling this could be move to Macau if Vegas is a shit show.

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3 points

@wes If anything similar to FP1 happens again then F1 is in serious trubble around here

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4 points

Gimme a โ€œ2โ€!

Gimme a โ€œ0โ€!

Gimme another โ€œ0โ€!

Gimme a โ€œ5โ€!

What does it spell? Commercial suicide!

As always, biggest losers are the fans. At least thereโ€™s two others on the calendar rather than just the one this time round.

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2 points

I hope they got those drain covers fixed, 20 cars pounding over them for 2 hours scares the crap outta me, If Sainz and Ocon driving over them once wrecks two cars completely.

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4 points

They ran FP2 for 90 minutes without issue shortly after covering with cement, Iโ€™d say those wonโ€™t be an issue now

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