2022 Monza (Temple of Speed) Pre-Race Thread

As long as you're talking about Team LH.

 

Yup , plenty of time

 

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What a fun life Brundle has lived!

I'm jealous.....

 

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So for those of you that went to the Italian GP like me, is this token system soemthing new or have they been doing this all along? My first time there and I was very happy I sat in parabolica Granstand 22 being it was close to the gate. But standing on these long lines and buying these dumb tokens (1 token = €1.5) in order to buy food or a beer was ridiculously dumb.


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I think the token system is new. Literally every single person was complaining about it. How they didn't simply do cash or via an app is utterly beyond me. Read thatt the lines for toilets were enormous and it was dirty, the help lines they set up were never answered. A complete **** show.

 

Literally.

 

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/monza-regret-over-poor-fan-experience-prompts-fresh-questions-over-its-f1-future/10369832/

Monza ‘regret’ over poor fan experience prompts fresh questions over its F1 future
Italian Grand Prix chiefs have expressed their ‘regret’ at the frustrations Formula 1 fans endured at Monza last weekend, as fresh questions emerge about the future of the race.


By: Jonathan Noble
Co-author: Roberto Chinchero
Sep 16, 2022, 2:02 PM
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A bumper crowd of 336,000 for the three days of the Italian GP weekend proved once again the booming popularity of F1.

But the infrastructure and organisation at Monza struggled at times to cope with the number of spectators, with numerous complaints about lengthy queues to get in to the circuit and a lack of facilities within it.

There was also disappointment about the lack of views because general admissions areas were over crowded, plus the struggles that fans faced getting food and water due to a token system that triggered huge queues.

Monza chiefs have been made aware of the problems and have vowed to look into the matter to try to work out what can be done better in 2023.

In a social media post on its official Twitter account, Monza said: “Autodromo Nazionale Monza expresses its regret for the inconvenience of those who, among the many fans who flocked to the last Italian GP, encountered some inconveniences.

“The structure and its people put their best efforts to create an event that surpassed all previous attendance records.

“For Autodromo Nazionale Monza, the experience of the fans is a priority aspect, and for this reason, a rigorous verification has been started, also with the partners, to ascertain and investigate the origin of any critical issues and take the consequent measures so that this does not happen again in the future.”

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Fans flood the circuit in celebration at the end of the race

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The fan complaints about what happened at the Italian GP comes against the backdrop of F1 chiefs again making it clear that the venue needs to lift its game – and cannot just rely on its history to stay on the schedule for the long term.

Monza has a contract to host the grand prix until 2025, but F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali said that progress needed to be made with its infrastructure, as well as eradicating some of the political issues that have sometimes made running the event more difficult.

“The grand prix deserves to be on the calendar but, as I have said before, history is no longer enough to be able to secure your place in the F1 world championship today,” Domenicali told Italian media last weekend.

“We expect the infrastructure improvement that we have defined, both for the teams and for the public, to be done.

“Covid has obviously brought forward other needs and other priorities, but now there are defined projects that must be carried out, and there is no more time.

“The works are needed for the modernisation of the venue and to help fans experience the grand prix in the best possible way.”


Asked if there was a possibility of the race being dropped from the calendar if it did not come up to scratch, Domenicali said: “I hope not. I do not want to even think that we should arrive at measures of this kind.

“But for the sake of a grand prix that deserves to be on the calendar, now we need the facts, and a definitive and clear plan of when the works already defined will start. The promoter knows this too.”

 

More Monza bad news - https://jalopnik.com/formula-1-fans-report-yet-more-harassment-at-the-italia-1849524175

 

Typical football hooligans' tactics.

 

Just shows that F1's silly campaigns are full of **** (drive it out, we race as one bla bla bla).

In Austria 2 girls reported being harrassed by Max fans (despite them antagonizing the fan bases, the evidence of which they deleted). F1 started immediately the drive it out campaign.

A week before, harrassment from Hamilton fans to Max fans. F1 remains silent and British commentators called them the best crowd ever.

Dutch GP, a couple of tweets with no evidence, and Drive it Out was mentioned again and F1 puts up electronic billboards saying report your harrassment here.

Italian GP, plenty of people reporting harrassment with video evidence, disabled people unable to get to the track (literally stranded outside it) and the helpline going to an office were no one works, and F1 remains silent. Will Buxton who saw the disabled girl tweet, was too busy taking pictures of his kebab rather than take some action.

What we see is F1 is very active in setting up pointless campaigns when it's one side of fans doing idiotic hooliganism, but remains completely silent when it comes from other fanbases. Campaigns are useless as ****, install some security/help, add a emergency help bot thing on the website (scan your ticket QR code and boom, arrive at virtual helpdesk). That's a lot more effective than pointless virtue signalling.

 

^^^^^^ This ^^^^^^

 

F1 actually does take this seriously as both drivers, Team Managers have F1 have spoken out. To do nothing flies in the face of the liability and the viability of sport, its sponsors etc. A more global view in terms of the totality of the sport is needed. Your post is a joke. Cynical and useless. When you are leading such a business doing nothing is tantamount to approval. Grow up.

 

Call my post a joke all you like but that is the actual reality of what played out. Don't like it because it doesn't suit your agenda? Don't really care.

Where did I say F1 shouldn't do anything? I said they are selective. BIG difference.

 

I don’t think I would go again. Even getting there from Milan is a PIA. Plus there was a train strike on Friday for practice sessions which made thugs even worse. I would have to stay in Monza if I ever go again but that must be super hard to secure a hotel room there since the city is so small. At least I experienced one of my bucket list events to attend. I think I will stick with Montréal, Miami and Austin going forward


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