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wood

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  1. Apparently Alonso and Ocon also hit it before Sainz did.
  2. Unless there's something else wrong with the track, it doesn't look like the frame came up, at least in the photos.
  3. Welp, plenty of time watch the fountains now ...
  4. Oh yeah ... try that video at 1.75 speed. Not bad then.
  5. Ha! Yep. As always. But it was wet. They were apparently doing 150 in the dry.
  6. Yep, and overestimated, as did COTA, how many people would pay insane prices. The ticket price fall is pretty much mimicking COTA's this year. I've been saying for a while that the COVID/Netflix bubble is bursting, at least in the US. Yesterday a Vegas article pretty much confirmed that. https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/as-vegas-f1-race-approaches-questions-loom-over-lofty-economic-projections "But dwindling prices may not be an isolated incident. Andrew Balfour, a writer who runs the website F1 Destinations and who has tracked F1 ticket prices for years, told The Nevada Independent earlier this year that in-person ticket costs have increased across the board at Formula One races in 2022, amid a surge of fan interest for grandstands that had been limited or closed entirely during pandemic-affected seasons in 2020 and 2021. But in 2023, Balfour said fans have soured on rising costs. That was particularly acute in Miami and Austin — two of the most expensive races on the calendar, alongside Las Vegas, Monaco and Mexico City — where tickets were ultimately discounted amid lower-than-expected demand. “These races haven't sold out this year, and I think people are more price sensitive,” he said."
  7. Who was that chick that absolutely murdered/screamed Come Together, and who was the Blondie/Stefani wannabe chick that couldn't sing at all? Jared Leto in a racing suit that didn't fit was funny AF. I guess even racing suits don't come in size "6 foot, Extra Scarecrow". The best part was J. Balvin in the huge firesuit. Love his music and sense of humor.
  8. That's the weird bit. F1/Liberty stresses that this race is a linchpin of securing the and growing the American market for F1, but then they clearly set the start times for the Euros, which imho is being done to market the Strip to the European audience.
  9. Fixed. Yeah that was turrible. There's a hot thread over on Autosport about whether or not there's too much Americanization of F1 going on. I've argued that while I hate the direction it's headed and that I was drawn to F1 because it was very different than what it is now, it hasn't been Americanized so much as commercialized and corporatized. Last night made it harder to argue that, I think.
  10. Yeah any top driver in Max's car right now is gonna win. Just like Mercedes before them, and Red Bull before them. They just have to beat their teammate.
  11. FYI this will air on CNBC tomorrow ...
  12. What ... you don't like Mr. Roboto?
  13. From loki on the Autosport thread:
  14. I think so, yeah. They wanna run the race at night to show off the Strip. Understandable, and it would generally look pretty shitty in the daytime anyway, but they could accomplish that starting even 3 or 4 hours earlier this time of year. They say F1 needs this race to be a success to crack the US market, but they didn't set those times with the US market in mind. IMHO that's for the casinos to market Vegas to Europe. If the casinos don't want this race, it does not happen.
  15. Are those indications to avoid the area due to traffic tie-ups? NM. Texas08 answered it for me while I was posting.
  16. Yeah 59 & 58 degrees for the start of Qualifying and the race, respectively.
  17. Yep & I think the weight of the new cars would hinder them even more than the size. These current cars are pigs in slow corners, which is what that old track overwhelmingly was composed of, and they excel in medium to high-speed corners, which that old track has very little to none of. I think on that track, the old cars just might win. Maybe even easily.
  18. Donny Osmond set to perform National Anthem at F1′s Las Vegas Grand Prix https://www.fox5vegas.com/2023/11/13/donny-osmond-set-perform-national-anthem-f1s-las-vegas-grand-prix/ I couldn't stand that mfer 50 years ago ...
  19. The Torger, interrogating Lewis about the shoe he found at the Bellagio poker slots ...
  20. Exactly. That's why it's never made sense for them to be opposed to Andretti, and it's probably why we've never heard them say anything to that effect.
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