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.