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ROUND 22: United States πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ


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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[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Would've hoped they'd use the Sphere for more than just a glorified ad board.

[–] Pixelemme@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Pixelemme@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

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 πŸ˜ƒπŸ˜ƒ

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago

But it is just a glorified ad board.

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

[–] bestusername@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's Vegas!

What would you really expect? Money-in is all they care about. Interesting doesn't equal money-in.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 it'll return to form

[–] bestnerd@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 7 points 11 months ago

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

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] bestnerd@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

That’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.

[–] zav_@mastodon.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago

Gimme a "2"!

Gimme a "0"!

Gimme another "0"!

Gimme a "5"!

What does it spell? Commercial suicide!

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

[–] Apprehensive@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] D2Rave@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

They ran FP2 for 90 minutes without issue shortly after covering with cement, I'd say those won't be an issue now