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Scam said:
That's not terribly useful as most of the big ones are n/a for 2023. Is that because they're sold out? If so, kinda makes it acceptable for others to gauge their prices upwards. But yeah.. 'murca's capitalism knows absolutely no bounds.
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The article I copied the image from was posted 1 year prior to the race, so I assume they weren't able to get prices that far ahead and haven't updated it since.
 
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Mr Jack said:
At the time of the race, the forecast is for air temperatures between 19 and 17 degrees. And the urban heat island effect will push it higher than that. It's doesn't look to be crazy cold.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but quali is at midnight and race start is 10pm local time. There’s a good chance of it being below 10°C by then.
 
andy_mk3 said:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but quali is at midnight and race start is 10pm local time. There’s a good chance of it being below 10°C by then.
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Well slap me with a kipper and call me Kevin, I was looking at the schedule for the wrong damn US grand prix. Yeah, 10pm local. Still the weather forecast puts the air temperate at 12/13 then - and with the urban heat island effect it should be higher than that. Cold, but they've run in worse.
 
Is it at 10pm because they really think us Europeans are going to get up at 6am to watch live?

Also, what about this Haas review of the other US GP. Reckon any results will change? Perez is up in the stand (as it were) and he got 12 points over Hamilton at that race. Could be interesting if he loses those *clutching at straws* A 5sec penalty would lose him nothing, and a 10sec would lose him 2 to Russell, lol.
 
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Scam said:
Also, what about this Haas review of the other US GP. Reckon any results will change? Perez is up in the stand (as it were) and he got 12 points over Hamilton at that race. Could be interesting if he loses those *clutching at straws* A 5sec penalty would lose him nothing, and a 10sec would lose him 2 to Russell, lol.
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I think it's got legs, but hard to predict. Pérez is in for something like sixteen penalties if it is approved, so it would make quite the difference.
 
Psycho Ned said:
Yeah I think some people think Vegas being in the desert is always hot. It’s not hot in the winter months at all! I’ve been there in the autumn when it’s been really windy as well.

Being at night also seriously it could be the coldest GP they’ve ran in living memory. Who can get the tyres working will be very interesting.
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BBC reckons 11c the night of the race.
 
Mr Jack said:
Haas' appeal has been rejected with a load of reasoning that feels more like butt covering than real justification. Probably for the best, though.
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There's only so many wrong decisions/butt-covering that can be left as-is "for the best" so as to not embarrass the FIA. Perhaps they need to lose a big appeal and have to overturn some decisions to really embarrass them into realising that continuing like this is simply not good enough. They have the money to spend on this sort of thing... :o
 
Look at the size difference between the F60 (2009) and more modern cars here at 33:44. Shame about the picture quality.

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Stu999 said:
Good video on the Vegas track:
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Man I’m getting really bad vibes from this race. What a total waste of resources, manpower, carbon footprint etc just for one poxy race so that someone up on high can say they made it happen. It’s like those giant phallus shaped buildings certain oil-rich “royals” put up… because they can.

What’s the end game here, are they going to do this every year? It’s clearly wrecking the town. Your average Vegas punter isn’t going to give two hoots about F1.
 
Scam said:
Man I’m getting really bad vibes from this race. What a total waste of resources, manpower, carbon footprint etc just for one poxy race so that someone up on high can say they made it happen. It’s like those giant phallus shaped buildings certain oil-rich “royals” put up… because they can.

What’s the end game here, are they going to do this every year? It’s clearly wrecking the town. Your average Vegas punter isn’t going to give two hoots about F1.
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The locals certainly don’t seem to be happy at the moment. Next year shouldn’t be as bad if they don’t have to resurface the roads.
 
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