F1 In Vegas?

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Singapore is super easy. Of course its small but the track runs around every major hotel. You just go downstairs and you are at the track. I think Vegas might be similar but with many more people.

 

I can't even imagine the prices for that week.

 

No infrastructure.

Your clue was all the 'celebs' on hand for Miami.
Do you think any of those clowns would go to RA, or anywhere else?

Well that's kind of an easy fix - block off the banking, make them drive 'low'.
Or just screw the road course and let them run 200 miles on the full oval, tri-oval, whatever...
Let's take 'em to Talladega?!

I'm waiting for this crappy race in downtown Chicago....

 

So what have we learned this year? There's no rush for tickets next time.

 

I'm not sure I agree with that. Every time they put up a section for sale it was sold out in minutes. So if you wanted a certain part of the track, you had to move quickly.

 

Are those tickets bought by touts who resell them at inflated price ?
We have that plague here in England with concert tickets.

 

There are a lot of them offered in the secondary market but most of them seem (at least right now) as pretty close to face value to 20% up with fees. That may go up as it gets closer to race time. Ticketmaster is owned by Liberty Media so the handled the initial ticket sales. Double dipping!

 

Exotics Racing tells me they are booked out the entire week through Saturday. Some restaurants that offer reservations that far in advance have minimum per person food and beverage requirements. Picasso is $275 for example. I hope many of the notable restaurants will offer unique menus that weekend. Picasso has had literally the same menu for 20 years now. I’m afraid to try to book somewhere like Robuchon because they once cancelled my table reservation weeks later on account of someone booked out the entire place. I can’t imagine a weekend more at risk for entire venue booking than this.

 

I remember when F1 was affordable to the common man, sigh....

 

Yep. I agree. It is a pity. I went to the F1 race in Phoenix and there was practically no one in the stands. You could walk around everywhere.

 

Having a race when it's almost 100 out didn't help....

 

Actually I remember it being very cloudy

 

Depends on the year, you didn't specify.
Phoenix, Dallas, any of those places, in the Summer? Really?

 

LV is night race in November. I think I’ll need ski gear. It’s cold in the dessert.

 

I may need to come and bring all my tent stuff and sleep in the desert somewhere,
Red Rock Canyon, Knob Hill, etc.

 

Once I paid ten bucks for a Saturday qualifying ticket at Indy for F1. Cheapest ever anywhere.

I missed the F1 GP in Las Vegas by a couple of weeks, bad timing. You know the one on Cesar's Palace parking lot. I wonder whether that part of history will be remembered at the new Las Vegas event or whether they rather not talk about it anymore. The race was actually cool and important as it eliminated one of three title contenders (IIRC).

 

When I was a kid I would go to Phoenix Int'l Raceway with my dad and see CART races which were not long after Indy. Every big driver at Indy was there. Unser, Andretti, AJ, Mears, etc. I think it was like $10 but that was a lot of money!

Parking was free though!

 

When I was a teenager a friend once took me to Riverside CA for a CART race. I had no idea at the time what I was witnessing but I was impressed by the cool cars, no doubt.

 

In 2007 at Indy for the f1 GP, I paid $120 for a 3 day general admission pass and parked for free on the infield if we got there early enough. Exactly what I paid for Indycar two years ago for a weekend pass at road America that included pit access. Crazy.

 

Netflix in talks to stream Vegas celebrity golf event with F1 stars

https://f1i.com/news/477302-netflix-in-talks-to-stream-vegas-celebrity-golf-event-with-f1-stars.html

 

The 'product or show' F1 presents is worth about that. I can pay more. I see no need at all. Liberty has raised fee's and its spread on down to the lowest level as economics dictates. As long as the shareholders demand more the pain will continue. Too bad the product is lacking. Le Mans destroyed this F1 season in 1 event. F1 needs to really change. Im not missing much currently so off to Mallorca and not worry about Canada at all lol.

 

Walked the Strip early this morning and found guys taking measurements of the track, about every 10 meters. They wrote down info with paint and GPS coordinates for every one of 3 locations.



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I can see the spectacle aspect of a street course in Vegas. I though Miami was a joke from the get-go.

For one, I'm sick of street circuits altogether. To me, it's a cheap way to do F1 and get another race in somewhere.

 

No one is going to build another dedicated F1 track anywhere in the world anymore, unless its a dicatorship. Cost, environmental issues, land availability, and public opposition.