2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix- [PRACTICE 3] discussion thread - eviltoast

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

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  • LCP@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

      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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          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 😃😃

    • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      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.

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      1 year ago

      It’s Vegas!

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

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    1 year ago

    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

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      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.

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        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.

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        1 year ago

        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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          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.

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      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
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    1 year ago

    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.worldB
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      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