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quaawaa said:
I don’t buy the “infrastructure” excuse for not running races at real American tracks.

Red Bull Ring and Spa are in the middle of nowhere. Monaco is the worst attended track besides oil tracks because it has no infrastructure.

Grade 1 means nothing as shown by all the dangerous street tracks that somehow meet the standard. All it means is that F1 plans to/has raced there.

Laguna Seca is an hour and a half drive from the Bay Area, Sonoma is a short drive from San Francisco, Road America is an hour from Milwaukee and close to a lot of medium sized towns, Road Atlanta is right next to a major city, Sebring is within easy driving distance of Tampa, Orlando, and Miami, VIR is next to a medium sized town and is within driving distance of Greensboro and Raleigh-Durham.

There was no need to pick Vegas and Miami.
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Laguna would cause everyone to have conniptions trying to dial the ride height up to deal with the Corkscrew, it'd be great.

"Grade 1" is a graft scheme that really means 'funneled money to have you track destroyed by Tilke' change my mind. Those tracks are fine, and the last time Indycar killed someone on a road course was... I'm-not-even-sure ago.
 
Coccxys said:
In Sky's "coming up in the 2nd half of the season"

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Anticipated by who? The few "can't wait" posts are massively drowned out by the absolute pile of people who are expecting it to be a disaster/awful on every single platform that has discussed it.
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Vegas landmark’s being literal casinos tells you all you need to know about the city. I don’t think there’s a more soulless hellscape in the US. Vegas simply gets fed everything under the sun that’s sports related because it’s a major tourist spot, close to California, and massive tax breaks. Vegas has jack shit for major sports teams until six years ago, and is about to get its third major sport in the city. I’d bet anything that Vegas will get an NBA team. UFC constantly runs events in Vegas (originally due to the pandemic) and the crowd sucks because there is no crowd. Genuinely wish every sports adjacent thing in Vegas the worst.
 
quaawaa said:
I don’t buy the “infrastructure” excuse for not running races at real American tracks.

Red Bull Ring and Spa are in the middle of nowhere. Monaco is the worst attended track besides oil tracks because it has no infrastructure.

Grade 1 means nothing as shown by all the dangerous street tracks that somehow meet the standard. All it means is that F1 plans to/has raced there.

Laguna Seca is an hour and a half drive from the Bay Area, Sonoma is a short drive from San Francisco, Road America is an hour from Milwaukee and close to a lot of medium sized towns, Road Atlanta is right next to a major city, Sebring is within easy driving distance of Tampa, Orlando, and Miami, VIR is next to a medium sized town and is within driving distance of Greensboro and Raleigh-Durham.

There was no need to pick Vegas and Miami.
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Or just stop the obsession with murica, look at all the amazing classic tracks the sport has used and work out the bloody economics of the sport so tracks can actually afford to have races there.

The whole track must pay FOM to grace them with their presence (except Vegas because that is FOM) leads to either oil states where some prince (who would be stood in the Hague if they weren't murica's ally) can find it or finding venues where selling them out (at extortionate prices) are the only way tracks can survive.

If you want an F1 race at your venue you need to pay $15-55 million a year on top of track upkeep, promotion of the event etc. That's a lot of money to find just through ticket sales and sponsorship.

FOM made record profits off the sport last year, by a significant jump over anything previously seen. They can afford to bleed tracks less, or at least go to a ticket split profit arrangement.
 
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Haas running with K-Mag and Hulk next year. Boring move, but Haas needs drivers who won’t commit jihad and can occasionally snag a point or two.
 
Two borked Ausies in P2.

Nice one Ricci barriering it rather than smashing Piastri.

They somehow found a worse pit lane reporter than Ted, fuckin Hill doesn't know what the hell is going on amd that's all he keeps telling us.

Ricciardo out with broken bone in his hand after the crash in P2. Lawson to drive for AT.

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Coccxys said:
Two borked Ausies in P2.

Nice one Ricci barriering it rather than smashing Piastri.

They somehow found a worse pit lane reporter than Ted, fuckin Hill doesn't know what the hell is going on amd that's all he keeps telling us.

Ricciardo out with broken bone in his hand after the crash in P2. Lawson to drive for AT.

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Didn't he just return to F1, too? I don't follow it that closely so sorry if I'm wrong. Talk about bad luck, though.
 
JoseRaulChupacabra said:
It would be kino if an orange car won on Sunday.
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Unlikely, they were fast over a single lap but both red bulls were 4-5 tenths a lap faster than the rest of the field on the long runs.

Ferraris were struggling to get into the top 10 on both single lap and long run pace and Sainz was constantly off the track so they've clearly screwed something up.

In generally terrible news all round it looks like there's no Brundel this weekend with either a Crofty and Ant or a Crofty and Karun lineup. With Damon inexplicably covering for Ted despite being utterly hopeless.

Also Daniel confirmed it was a deliberate throw it in the barrier to not take out the already stationary Piastri. Great fast decision making to prioritise safety over all.

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