ROUND 22: United States 🇺🇸
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
Track Map
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This entire day so far is showing how good most track organizers are. If this was test by F1 to see how much better they would do, it’s showing they’re delusional about their own organisational skills.
That on top of how detached they are from the fans, both more newer casual fans to more hardcore fans. I can’t speak for the superrich but I suspect that even they would be embarrassed about this.
Don’t worry they kicked the new casual fans out of the seats last night so no need to worry about them anymore.
In this case it wasn’t the weld that broke, but the concrete which is more difficult to test. But yeh, makes them look very stupid.
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Damn, I’d be pissed if I paid so much money for tickets and the stay.
Why? What is the “logistics” reason, anyone know?
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Thanks.
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This is jut ridiculous. F1 and FIA fucked up the security and Ferrari gets penalized for it.
Not trolling, genuinely asking. Why do you say this? I have been working 18 hour shifts all week and have not been able to follow up on anything F1 related. Could you post the backstory or some links where I can inform myself please?
The damage to the Ferrari car floor, battery and even the monocoque was caused by improperly secured drain covers. FIA should have found this problem before allowing cars on track. F1 as organizer should have done a better job preventing this in total.
So while usually the track organizer is not actually F1 itself you can argue it’s not their fault something like this happens, in this case it’s stupid that the problem is caused by the entities that are also applying the penalties to the victim of their negligence.
I understand what you mean. Thank you for taking the time to answer. I appreciate it.
I just want to comment to say how I appreciate this friendly and informative conversation! Have a great weekend!
Dude, do 2 minutes of your own research literally wherever you normally get your F1 news from
Sorry for asking a question, on a discussion thread dedicated to this sport and more specifically this session, relating to an incident that just happened. No one HAS to answer me, I asked and other online users were nice enough to answer me. I had in fact read about the Sainz retirement, but had no info regarding the “security” thing. Hence me asking. If you don’t want to answer, don’t. But no need to tell someone off purely because they had asked a question, dude.
If a friend walked into a gathering and said “Hey, I missed FP2; I heard something about a Ferrari penalty; what happened?”, and another friend answered, that would be fine. Normal.
Why is it not okay here?
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According to F1TV commentary, he would go back 10 places on the start grid.
Am I just being old and grumpy for disliking the neon advertisements? The commentators can’t stop talking about how pretty they think it is, but I’m not seeing it. It’s reminding me of cyberpunk 2077 except that in there it’s pretty clear that those lights are indicative of society taking a wrong turn and ending up in a dystoptian hellscape.
I know the other tracks have ads too, but at least there they aren’t pretending it’s aesthetically pleasing.
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The livestream just concluded, it’s going not great so far in “spectacular” Vegas
The shots being set up to show ads aren’t obvious at all…
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All contingent on repairs and the track has to open to regular traffic at 4am local time.
Apparently they are filling up all hundred drains with cement? What a shitshow.
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WHAT? WTH!
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I would think this will be a lot of work to “undo” after the race.
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haha indeed!
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Holy shit. I didn’t start watching in earnest until 2020 so I missed this gem.
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Gawd damn. Toto absolutely ripped into one of the journalist’s questions at the press conference.
Dude just got headphoned.
Is it just me or has Toto been grumpy af lately? I mean I get that journalists can be annoying but this was just over the top.
I wonder how he would have reacted if it was one of his cars that was damaged instead of Sainz…
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I hope this race is so fucking bad that they cancel any future races here unless Vegas builds a dedicated track. This notion of holding a street race in Vegas is just bonkers crazy and will never result in an interesting event. It’ll be Monaco, but without any of Monaco’s redeeming qualities.
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