Poll: Official 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix Thread - The Strip, Las Vegas - Round 22

Rate Vegas out of ten

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Feel like the cameras are going to have to be positioned well to actually make this look like what people are expecting. Your mind thinks of seeing the bright lights of the strip and casinos as the cars go thundering down it. The reality is probably going to be there are that many high catch fences, bridges, mega bright floodlights and other random **** in the way you could be racing in Jeddah.

My feelings are still this'll be a 3-4 year wonder then the novelty will wear off, the vastly inflated ticket prices will put everyone off, the locals will be ****** off at the disruption every year and it'll disappear into the abyss.
 
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Poor start from the medical car there, surprised it’s ahead of the safety car on championship points.

The corners on and off the strip look weird with the random kerbing, just make it the full width available between the barriers.

Psycho Ned said:
Feel like the cameras are going to have to be positioned well to actually make this look like what people are expecting. Your mind thinks of seeing the bright lights of the strip and casinos as the cars go thundering down it.
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Looks pretty much as I expected from the safety car onboard above in the thread. Outside shots might be different.
 
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I have a suspicion that this financially and logistically has been an unmitigated disaster, obviously they will never admit that.
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Its a total disaster for the locals and the tourist industry, I would be very surprised if it happened again

With the mess it has made of the city I would not visit in the 3 months before the race and 1 month after

A lot of angry locals and non F1 tourists at the moment
 
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The track looks incredibly bumpy as they go down the long straight down the strip, that will show up a lot more on F1 cars.

Not sure if the track is damp in places, or its the super shiny new oily looking tarmac. I can see something weird happening this weekend due to the nature of the track. Wasn't it one of the early races at Baku that the cars were sucking up the man hole covers due to the aero?

I can see something like that happening here, the green street signs over the track falling off or something.
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Called it, session stopped after 9 minutes and not resumed.

Something on the long straight is trashing the cars, its caused big damage to Ocons car and caused Sainz to pull over after a big hit.
 
Seems to have wrote off the Alpine Chassis and probably similar damage to the Ferrari too.

There was a yellow flag for a short while down the straight prior to Sainz pulling over. I imagine the manhole cover was already loose, Sainz hit it and made it worse and then Ocon has said to F1TV that he hit the cover after Sainz had pulled over.

Ah well, back to bed for FP2 (If it happens) haha.
 
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Yeah that's trashed, no wonder they are worried. Goes to show the forces at play to lift up a giant chunk of metal like that.

I can see the teams affected trying to claim the costs back from the circuit/organisers. A bit like HAAS did at Malaysia a few years ago after Grosjean hit a drain cover.
 
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Really don't see how they're going to fix that in time.....and now they're saying they have to inspect all the manhole covers on the circuit.
 
This opening show really shows that the whole thing is a money no object exercise, so different to F1 a decade ago, makes you wonder how much Ecclestone was really scrapping off the top.
 
Traffic cam footage of Sainz hitting the manhole cover.


Alfa Romeo are also reporting damage to Zhous car from the rogue manhole cover.

Said traffic cams are being streamed here, you can see the FIA and workers going around the track.


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Who needs sleep when you have 20 people standing looking at a hole in the track pointing and live youtube comments. Comedy gold :p
 
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Trust the colonials to screw up a fundamental part of racing; something to actually race on!

Given how low the drivers are in the car, I'd be very worried about getting a manhole cover to the gentleman area! They'd be safer leaving the small hole than trying to secure something dt this point. Add a hay bale chicane around it :D

They can also keep all the additional try-hard ceremonies too. Tackier than Benidorm cabaret and not the F1 I want to watch personally.
 
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