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


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  • LCP
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    72 years ago

    Would’ve hoped they’d use the Sphere for more than just a glorified ad board.

    • @Pixelemme@lemm.ee
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      32 years ago

      The sphere just looks like it is there for looking good on shots. Not really sure how useful it will be for anything else.

      • LCP
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        32 years ago

        I hoped to see some cool graphics. Anything but ads.

        • @Pixelemme@lemm.ee
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          22 years ago

          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
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      22 years ago

      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
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      2 years ago

      It’s Vegas!

      What would you really expect? Money-in is all they care about. Interesting doesn’t equal money-in.

  • @frank@sopuli.xyz
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    52 years ago

    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
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      62 years ago

      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
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        72 years ago

        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
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        32 years ago

        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
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          22 years ago

          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.

  • Xav
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    32 years ago

    @wes If anything similar to FP1 happens again then F1 is in serious trubble around here

    • PhobosAnomaly
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      42 years ago

      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
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    22 years ago

    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.worldB
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      42 years ago

      They ran FP2 for 90 minutes without issue shortly after covering with cement, I’d say those won’t be an issue now