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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  • Dmian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    If you allow me an opinion: this one’s on the FIA. It’s not the first time a cover is dislodged and cause problems (2019 Azerbaijan GP FP1, 2020 Portuguese GP FP3). One would think that by now there would be a Safety protocol for street circuits, with one of the points being “Verify the security of all drain covers and assure that they can’t be lifted by drag forces”. This would be specially important regarding current ground effect specs. The fact that they had no idea if the drain covers would hold up the cars passing at full speed over them is an indicator that somebody is not doing their work. And the one who should look up for safety is the FIA.

    • DV8@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Nighed@sffa.communityEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      In this case it wasn’t the weald that broke, but the concrete which is more difficult to test. But yeh, makes them look very stupid.

  • wes@lemmy.worldOPM
    8·
    1 year ago

    The livestream just concluded, it’s going not great so far in “spectacular” Vegas

    • Dmian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      See you later! Planned start no sooner than 2:00 am local time (10:00 GMT | 11:00 CET), but most probably 2:30 am (10:30 GMT | 11:30 CET). Around 100 minutes (1 1/2 hours) from the post of this message.

      • damirK@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        All contingent on repairs and the track has to open to regular traffic at 4am local time.

    • DV8@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Damn, I’d be pissed if I paid so much money for tickets and the stay.

  • Dmian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Sainz will take part of FP2, but will most probably be penalized for the battery replacement.

  • Dmian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    And it’s over. Track repairs held the whole session. I hope the information gathered by the teams is valuable. And that it doesn’t rain, and track doesn’t lose the rubber it got.

    • June@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Gawd damn. Toto absolutely ripped into one of the journalist’s questions at the press conference.

    Dude just got headphoned.

    • Dmian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      It took me a while to get the reference, but then I remembered. RIP headphones… XDDDD

    • krimson@feddit.nl
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Jenztsch@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      I wonder how he would have reacted if it was one of his cars that was damaged instead of Sainz…