FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN SILVER LAS VEGAS GRAND PRIX 2023....Practice 1-2-3.... ▄▀▄▀▄▀ SPOILERS ▄▀▄▀▄▀

Pulled from Autosport Comments:

Cost of staging Las Vegas Grand Prix: $500 million.
Making sure the drain covers don't get sucked up and scrag the cars: Priceless.

 

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Ah. That was a Sky Sports banner, so 2AM Vegas time is 10AM Sky sports (UK) time.

I wonder if ESPN will cover FP2 at all, and on what channel.

But that's 4AM here in Central time.
(5AM eastern)

 

Sure seems like Toto is in cahoots with Liberty and F1 doesn't it?

He mentions it could have been dangerous for Carlos and it's a damaged car. Sure, lets ignore what a drain being propelled into a human can do. Remember the little spring that hit Massa in the head? That would be nothing in comparison. Great job he says for the millions of fans, the teams, and the drivers that all got screwed from this debacle.

He says that this is the new standard of F1. Thanks for the heads up Toto, I'll be sure to move onto watching something else. Indy car has been far better anyways.

 

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If this cover hits a driver in the head it's a tom pryce situation. We would be so lucky it would be a Massa situation.

And we all know how Toto reacted when his cars were a bit bouncy and safety suddenly was a big concern for him. he's the biggest hypocrite of them all.

 

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The only one that's sweating bullets right now is Steve Hill.

Not quite sure if he's been following the F1 season at all but show me a reason why Max should be nervous, lol

 

The Ferrari bill alone will be absolutely enormous.

New chassis needed and the entire engine has been replaced. Engine is ~12 million.

 

They owe 2 car rebuilds so far, and if safety failures cause deaths Liberty will be uninsurable- imagine the cost self insuring this pile of risk - even without possible negligence

 

Okay, ESPN (channel 140 on dish network) is now running a banner saying FP2 coverage will begin at 4:45AM ET. No such banner on ESPN2, ESPNU, or ESPNnews.
(About 20 minutes from now.)

And the college football that was on the schedule for ESPN channel isn't running.
So it looks like ESPN will echo Sky's coverage (1:45 vegas, 9:45 am england)

 

They sent everyone home.
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and it's only been 9 minutes of track time.

 

imagine not having a lot of money and you go for just the friday.

The collapsed bridge caused you to arrive a bit late to your seat.

What a f'n **** show this is.

 

Given that they're supposed to reopen the streets 30 minutes after FP2 is now scheduled to end, I guess they don't want those pesky fans in the way.

That, or Taylor Swift fell asleep, and they have no more Vegas show entertainment lined up.

 

Is this a first for F1 ...driving at 2am?

 

Utter preventable failure. I was never thinking it would be this egregious. Amateur hour. Andretti should run!!

 

About those ticket and hotel prices…….

 

Ferrar should leave. Send a nice big message!!

 

I was there. What an absolute disaster from the fan perspective. No communication at all. No announcement of the 2am start. We left at 1245 after waiting around for an extra 4 hours for nothing. What a joke.

 

And now they've delayed the start of FP2 another 15 minutes to 2:15 local time.

FIAsco.

 

Reminds of this other fiasco: street chase scene in traffic with Indycars in "Driven" with..flying manhole covers...

 

I got an announcement from the app. But you are correct they did not announce it on the boards or speakers. And I could not find the message again after I viewed it once.

As I left I walked passed Sands and the Strip on the pedestrian bridge by the Wynn. I got a peak of the repairs going on for one of these water drains. This was about 1 AM. It seems to me from the grinding going on they well knew pretty early on it would take longer than midnight to get the track running again. They should have told people right after the live concerts (which were surprisingly good).

I got much more information out of Fchat than the organizers who, for some reason, went silent as soon as the track had an issue.

 

"Driven" was originally supposed to be about F1, but they couldn't get approvals, so they switched to CART.

But there were a lot of things from F1's past they included.
I think the flying manhole covers was from Vegas.