I don’t really follow F1, but I find it odd that they’re having a race in Vegas during Thanksgiving. I’d imagine they’d have better turnout during a non holiday. Wouldn’t it be better to hold the race in a country that doesn’t celebrate a holiday that week?
F1: “Formula 1 has made clear its intention to move towards greater calendar regionalisation, reducing logistical burdens and making the season more sustainable.”
Well both could be true. Most of the equipment doesn’t move from one race to the next. There are like three or more of most stuff and it is transported to the race like 4-5 races out. For the most part, only the cars and people travel by air, and that’s when the car can’t be transported by land like when in Europe.
For example, in the 2023 calendar, I bet most of the equipment used in Miami will then be trucked or trained to Montreal. Then maybe it goes and waits at Austin, then on to Las Vegas. Just a guess though.
Blood Oil money is going to probably come back to bite F1 in the ass in a decade or two I’m betting. And when that happens maybe we’ll get normal calendars back.
As long as it is the F1 track that kills junior drivers every few years, it’s actually a bad track and needs to get stricken off the calendar until they fix their death trap.
Yes…. and the Titan was an excellent submersible with a fatal flaw. That didn’t make it a bad submersible. 😂
Edit: I know this isn’t a great analogy, i just think it’s funny. Honestly not sure how they’d fix Spa tho cause the fatal flaw is the best part of the track. Maybe a chicane at Raidillon?
Really wish the organizers at tracks like Hockenheim or Sepang had the budget to host a race. So many tracks here that are simply all right, buying their way in, while truly stellar ones just wither away on the sidelines.
Very curious to see if the Chinese GP even happens next year.
It would be quite the bill to foot for an organisation that’s already pretty expensive to run. I don’t imagine they would do that unless there’s some serious financial incentive at the end of it, even if there is a connection there. They are a business after all.
“Lost”? Advertising itself does not make any profit at all. It’s about promoting the brand and making money from selling the product. Ask Red Bull for details. They spend loads of money (including hosting their own GP) to promote canned soda.
I’m not talking about advertising money, I’m talking about them contributing to the fees paid to the FIA to host the actual Grand Prix. The organizers lost money on that race most years. It ran, and 2019 was no exception.
I’d love to see hockenheim back. It’s a great track for racing and a ton of fun to watch.
Apparently it just makes no financial sense with the amount of spectators that go. Mercedes lost money on the GP in 2019 if I remember right, on top of being an absolute clownshow for them. If there was interest in Germany with a German driver maybe we’ll see it back, but right now it doesn’t make a ton of sense.
Well, again, there’s quite a lot of large-ocean-hopping going on there… I understand there’s so many factors involved in sorting the schedule, but does seem their efforts to go Carbon Neutral may get thwarted by immense travel.
iirc it’s there because they can’t race later in the year with the other American races due to weather. If they wait until that late in the year the weather in Canada won’t be super conducive to running a good race.
The continents are kind of arbitrary and where you grew up determines what you’re taught. Afaik in South America they teach America as one continent rather than north and south, for example.
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