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
FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN SILVER LAS VEGAS GRAND PRIX 2023
15 Comments
lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Would've hoped they'd use the Sphere for more than just a glorified ad board.
Pixelemme@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
I hoped to see some cool graphics. Anything but ads.
Pixelemme@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
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 · 2 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
@wes If anything similar to FP1 happens again then F1 is in serious trubble around here
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
They ran FP2 for 90 minutes without issue shortly after covering with cement, I'd say those won't be an issue now