ROUND 22: United States 🇺🇸
FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN SILVER LAS VEGAS GRAND PRIX 2023
Circuit stats
- First Grand Prix: 2023
- Number of laps: 50
- Circuit Length: 6.201 km
- Race Distance: 310.05 km
- Lap record: N/A
- **2022 winner:**N/A
Track Map
FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN SILVER LAS VEGAS GRAND PRIX 2023
If you allow me an opinion: this one’s on the FIA. It’s not the first time a cover is dislodged and cause problems (2019 Azerbaijan GP FP1, 2020 Portuguese GP FP3). One would think that by now there would be a Safety protocol for street circuits, with one of the points being “Verify the security of all drain covers and assure that they can’t be lifted by drag forces”. This would be specially important regarding current ground effect specs. The fact that they had no idea if the drain covers would hold up the cars passing at full speed over them is an indicator that somebody is not doing their work. And the one who should look up for safety is the FIA.
This entire day so far is showing how good most track organizers are. If this was test by F1 to see how much better they would do, it’s showing they’re delusional about their own organisational skills.
That on top of how detached they are from the fans, both more newer casual fans to more hardcore fans. I can’t speak for the superrich but I suspect that even they would be embarrassed about this.
Don’t worry they kicked the new casual fans out of the seats last night so no need to worry about them anymore.
In this case it wasn’t the weld that broke, but the concrete which is more difficult to test. But yeh, makes them look very stupid.