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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 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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

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

[–] Pixelemme@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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