? Is it not 2?
F1 2022 Season
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There are only 2. Miami and Texas.
There's rumours they will add more in the next couple of years. Las Vegas sounds like a certainty for next year and supposedly they are looking at New York. I've got no issue with more US races and there has been 3 before in the 80's.
The Las Vegas one sounds interesting - racing around the strip and held over Thanksgiving. It'll be loud if nothing else.
The Las Vegas one sounds interesting - racing around the strip and held over Thanksgiving. It'll be loud if nothing else.
I've had a thought for a long time that they should spilt the season into 3 parts. An "Americas" part with seven races including Canada, Brasil and Mexico. A "Europe" part of 7 races and a "Middle and Far East" part of 7 races. Why?
You could have mini championships for each part and the points from the mini parts feed into the global (usual) drivers championship. That way you could have in theory in one season, an Americas champion, a European champion and a Middle and Far East champion. Then obviously the usual world champion.
Now its likely that the usual world champ would win one of the parts or both or even all three but theres a chance he wont.
Also F1 could attract more sponsorship, as you could have region specific sponsors.
If F1 ever went to three car teams you could then also have a "guest" driver for one of the parts i.e. Americas and have i dont know, Mario Andretti or someone like him driving a ferrari just for the Americas part of the season.
I think the idea has legs.
You could have mini championships for each part and the points from the mini parts feed into the global (usual) drivers championship. That way you could have in theory in one season, an Americas champion, a European champion and a Middle and Far East champion. Then obviously the usual world champion.
Now its likely that the usual world champ would win one of the parts or both or even all three but theres a chance he wont.
Also F1 could attract more sponsorship, as you could have region specific sponsors.
If F1 ever went to three car teams you could then also have a "guest" driver for one of the parts i.e. Americas and have i dont know, Mario Andretti or someone like him driving a ferrari just for the Americas part of the season.
I think the idea has legs.
I don't watch F1 anymore but these new camera shots 
I don't watch F1 anymore but these new camera shots
Amazing isn't it. Can't wait to see it in the rain too
imagine a crash with that view...
I think they did show Schumachers crash this weekend with it? but I might be confusing it with just a normal onboard. I'm sure it wont take long anyway.
They did
I don't watch F1 anymore but these new camera shots
I couldn't watch that for a whole 90 minutes, would get a headache and feel sick. feck knows how the drivers do it every race weekend
Do we know what this is , Las Vegas GP ?
https://fb.watch/c4hP6fqFke/
https://fb.watch/c4hP6fqFke/
Might have to start getting back into it. Looked like something from a Kubrick film.
Yeah loads of the comments were people saying it looked nice but they had no idea what was happening the race. Watching old onboard footage of Senna going round Monaco is crazy, you have to be a certain type of person to be a racer driver.I couldn't watch that for a whole 90 minutes, would get a headache and feel sick. feck knows how the drivers do it every race weekend
I suppose when you are actually driving and not just watching footage your brain is prepared for all the g forces that occur to match the visual input. It is similar to an issue in VR, vergence-accomodation conflict , which is the confusion of the brain of two images being focused at a certain distance, but disparity between them would entail the actual object being in a much larger distance. That's why VR cannot display too much depth without causing headaches.I couldn't watch that for a whole 90 minutes, would get a headache and feel sick. feck knows how the drivers do it every race weekend
F1 legend Fernando Alonso insists he WILL continue to race for 'at least two or three more years'... as the two-time world champion, 40, believes he still has 'A LOT to offer.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...ue-race-two-three-years.html#article-10668769
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...ue-race-two-three-years.html#article-10668769
Yep its last vegas. Going to be a night race through the city by the sounds of it. Pretty cool.
found this, sounds good.
Formula 1 cars will race along about a mile of the Las Vegas Strip when the series returns to Sin City in 2023, according to a rendering of the circuit obtained by Front Office Sports on Friday.
FOS reported Thursday that the Thanksgiving weekend date had been settled on by officials. An announcement is expected in the coming weeks.
Key Landmarks Near Course
The street circuit will incorporate many notable Las Vegas landmarks.
- The start-finish line will be located outside Caesars Palace.
- Its main straightaway will run in between Wynn Las Vegas and The Cosmopolitan.
- The route will take drivers past the famous fountains in front of the Bellagio.
The precise length of the course has not been determined, but it’s expected to be around the same size as the Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix.
That circuit will have a 3.3-mile length when it debuts in May.
https://frontofficesports.com/first-look-at-formula-1-course-planned-for-las-vegas/
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Y'all got any more of them corners?
Wow - that has the potential to be absolutely incredible. Surely up there with the most epic bachelor party weekends possible?
EDIT: posted this before I saw what the circuit looked like. That looks a pretty boring layout - if Saudi Arabia is an OTT street circuit this looks to have swung the pendulum too far the other way.
Looks like LV will be a high speed track, not an abundance of corners
Pmsl. Going to be an awful event, especially as the race will be about 3am Monday UK time
14:00 Vegas time is 6am BST.
I think it has potential to be a very good race.
As much as this season sucks being a mercedes/lewis fan, it does feel like the sport is on the verge of hitting new heights. There's something in the air.
found this, sounds good.
Formula 1 cars will race along about a mile of the Las Vegas Strip when the series returns to Sin City in 2023, according to a rendering of the circuit obtained by Front Office Sports on Friday.
FOS reported Thursday that the Thanksgiving weekend date had been settled on by officials. An announcement is expected in the coming weeks.
Key Landmarks Near Course
The street circuit will incorporate many notable Las Vegas landmarks.
Shutting off that much of the Strip is rare, and the logistics of such will require partial closures of Las Vegas Boulevard days before the race to install safety barriers and other equipment.
- The start-finish line will be located outside Caesars Palace.
- Its main straightaway will run in between Wynn Las Vegas and The Cosmopolitan.
- The route will take drivers past the famous fountains in front of the Bellagio.
The precise length of the course has not been determined, but it’s expected to be around the same size as the Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix.
That circuit will have a 3.3-mile length when it debuts in May.
https://frontofficesports.com/first-look-at-formula-1-course-planned-for-las-vegas/
As a spectacle that’s going to be awesome but it’ll be a garbage race judging by that circuit.
Wynn to Cosmopolitan is a frigging long straight.
The Miami course does look impressively awful. Possibly the worst looking F1 track ever.
I read a random review online talking about this show back in 2019 or so, saying how he and his wife loved the show, one of the few shows they watch together. I tried to get my wife to watch it with me, but she had less than zero interest. I forced her to watch 10 mins just to give it a chance. After the first episode she wanted to make plans to go to the Montreal Grand Prix haha. Haven't been yet because of a couple babies since then, but we definitely want to go at some point.
I don't watch F1 anymore but these new camera shots
@Schmiznurf check this out, so boringly riding around in laps. Let's laugh at this "sport".
Most definitely! It's coming from all the handbags in this thread.
Yeh shame its not this 2007 layout which looked great.
Just to note, this is NOT the Las Vegas 202x layout for F1.
Really wants title no3, why not carry on. He just needs alpine to come good for 1 season and deliver a car that can challenge.
Mclaren upset that they arent a B team for someone
In seriousness its a valid point about the B teams and tech sharing.
Are you sure about the time difference as it's 13.27 now over there
They move to DST at a different point than us, so it does vary by an extra hour for some weeks of the year.
Lets be realistic, No 3 is not going to happen is it.
Alpine are not going to produce a car he can get No3 in.
Yeah but it will never be 14.00 Vegas time to 6am bst unless he ment it the other way round
But right now it's aligned - the difference is the US does DST a couple weeks earlier than Europe; we caught up this past weekend. The time difference between GMT and Las Vegas will be 7 hours for two weeks in March, 9 hours for two weeks in September, and 8 hours for the rest of the year.
Yeah it's been inverted. If it's a night race in Vegas (presuming 22:00 local time) that'd be 6 AM GMT.
Mate you've inverted it - 14:00 in Vegas is 22:00 GMT.
I realise that now.