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  1. All of that ... and imho one of the biggest reasons: low tire deg allowed the drivers to push like hell all race rather than babying the tires all race. Yeah I remember hearing that too and then looking up and seeing distance markers. It is hard af to spot the turn-in points and braking points there though, at least partially because of the way runoffs look like a continuation of the track from a distance and how the turns seem to blend in with the rest of the fencing.
  2. Someone representing F1 said that?
  3. I don't think the typical long straight DRS overtake is that interesting either, but there was a lot more overtaking in this race than what was done on the straights. I think you must have missed a lot of the overtaking in corners. Even some of the DRS overtakes were close and were only getting done right at the end of the straight. Re: overtaking being done because someone's tires are going off, we see the same thing in every race, and I couldn't care less if that's the reason as long as the overtaking car had to work for it a bit. Re: moving Austin out of October, Bobby ain't going for that. He likes to be right in the mix with Texas Football, ACL, Halloween, etc because it muddies the economic impact picture just the way he needs it to.
  4. I still don't get this. There were a few easy overtakes here and there, but we see that in literally every race. Usually more. At many tracks that's basically ALL we see. There were far more difficult, creative overtakes on this circuit than we've seen at one GP in years. It's like we were watching different races. And if it was the same kind of race we get at other tracks, then they would have failed imho. They need different kinds of racing, not the same kind at every track. I'm also not sure how May in Austin is better than October in Austin. Hotter & more humid? Yep. Better? How?
  5. Re: the Vegas grandstands, I was just told by loki that it was 105K actual seats. Oh and credit where credit is due, that pass by Lulu on (iirc) Piastri there near the end was very nice. There was a lot of good passing that wasn't the typical driveby crap. Fun stuff.
  6. Sainz says the oil spill caused the L1T1 mess. https://www.racefans.net/2023/11/19/sainz-blames-unacceptable-pre-race-oil-spill-grid-turn-one-crashes/ This was pretty much what me & my kid were thinking. It just looked unnaturally slippery compared to what we had already seen the rest of the weekend. The rear of Alonso's car went around like it was on ice.
  7. I really thought the DRS placements were just about right (if we must have DRS at all). My kid was saying it looked like they didn't even really need it. There were some drive-by’s but for the most part the zones enabled cars to get within striking range which, if we must have it, should be exactly what DRS does imho. Some of the drivers also said the low deg allowed them to push like hell, and it showed on the track. They had fun.
  8. Actually there were like 21-22 grandstands. They were just left dark, next to the extremely brightly lit track and all the other lights. You'd rarely see them at all unless you were looking for them. From the middle of the front straight all the way to just past the Sphere was almost solid grandstands. They held almost all of the 100K people with little to no GA at all. By comparison, COTA's grandstands for example currently hold about 56K.
  9. I've seen people on s/m saying what a bad race it was. To me, that begs the question: If that wasn't a good race, then what do you think a good race looks like?
  10. Yep. Awesome race. Action from start to finish and all the way up and down the field. Pretty cool. Everything before FP2 sucked, and tbh imho, I've thought everything since the premature end of FP1 was pretty great.
  11. Yeah and some of the best circuits in the world, too, but I doubt any of 'em have much interest in neutering their circuits for F1.
  12. Fuck seeing it the first time.
  13. Danica & Nat ... How you doin'? :joey: Tavo sighting on the grid. Yep. Just send it to your google calendar, and off you go. Full season of local sesion start times. LOL they had the actor that played Leonardo on Kill Tony recently. What a brilliant trainwreck that show is. 61F? Some, yeah. But man they've overplayed the 'cold' all the last two weeks just as much as they overplay the 'scorching heat'. So am i. Eurrrrp.
  14. Exactly this. Win the Big 12. The rest will either take care of itself or it won't.
  15. So ... no apology from FOM to fans affected by the canceled FP1 and fanless FP2? $200 vouchers for event merchandise instead. Wow.
  16. Oh yeah ... Vamos Fernando! Looking good so far, P3 despite never really nailing a whole lap. My kid has been pounding out laps around Vegas in the F1 2023 game, and he says putting together a solid lap has been the hardest thing about this track. He usually gets right up to speed very quickly and has run some laps in the 1:35s, but has been struggling putting a whole lap together. He says the braking points are really hard to spot, the trailing braking is tough to get just right, etc. Same thing I've been reading from others who've been driving it, and Button was saying it last night as well - that it looks like a simple track, but it really isn't at all.
  17. LOL mythbusters didn't 'predict' shit. It had already happened multiple times long before that.
  18. So, yeah. I'd say there was a good chance as well. They're categorically denying that they were opposed to dismissing the penalty on the basis that the rules don't even allow a vote, so they couldn't be for or against it. That seems like some Jedi Mind Trick kinda logic, for sure. And yeah this has happened before with similar results re: penalties, etc. They really need to take a look at finding some relief when someone gets hit with some kind of force majeur like this. LOL the guys on Autosport said Toto was such a pit bull about it, it sounded like he was pushing for Stefanbo's job. Yeah it's crazy how some people thought that was a manhole cover, and yeah I never saw any actual photos of what they 'repaired' it with & wouldn't know myself what would be a good alternative to welding. Glad everything went well for FP2. I was half asleep, still sleepy from last night, but I never saw anything weird looking on the track. But I sure didn't have my eyes open the whole 90 minutes either.
  19. So do we know that picture is real? All I ever heard they were using is concrete, and I never saw anything odd looking like that in FP2. Yeah that was comedy gold, Jerry. Button said it, I think. I was blown away by the crazy table minimums last year when I was out there for my boy's volleyball nationals. $50 or higher, and if you found a rare one that was lower than that, you couldn't get a seat. Channeling their inner COTA. That's not why they kicked people out. They were supposed to open the roads at 0400 originally, but they got that pushed back so that FP2 could run 'til 4. The reason the fans were told to leave is because there was no staffing as the workers had to go home sometime. You'd think they coulda scrounged up enough staff at triple secret overtime to keep an eye on the 50-100 people left in the stands. Same excuse COTA uses when they close 3/4 of the track for a whole race weekend or just strand people waiting for buses. I think they had epoxied them down, not anticipating the extra 'suction' produced by ground effect cars versus the old cars. The real question for me is how did they pass homologation. The valve box was still in the ground. The steel/iron sleeve broke along with some of the concrete surrounding it when the cover lifted and was slammed into it. It seems like maybe a car ahead lifted the cover slightly before Sainz hit it. Ocon also had damage. Might've been him. Alonso apparently just missed it, so I'd bet it was raised already when he saw it. He got there ahead of Sainz, too. Yeah Vowles sure skirted the GM question with haste. LOL. Fuck that guy. Or a fan, or marshall, or anyone else. F1 has been very lucky with covers and drain grates, etc over the years. They weren't.
  20. From what I've read, they did have them secured, but not well enough for the massive force a downforce F1 car would create. It's not trivial, but it's happened numerous times before at Baku, Malaysia, Monaco, and China I think. Not having any support races didn't help them, but even then it's doubtful that they'd have exposed the problem.
  21. Hmm ... guess I'll go back to watching 'Kill Tony' Episode #629 before nodding off.
  22. Apparently Alonso and Ocon also hit it before Sainz did.
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