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2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix- [PRACTICE 3] discussion thread

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

15 comments

Would've hoped they'd use the Sphere for more than just a glorified ad board.
- The sphere just looks like it is there for looking good on shots. Not really sure how useful it will be for anything else.
  
  I hoped to see some cool graphics. Anything but ads.
- But it is just a glorified ad board.
  
  Not sure what else you think they use it for... Especially in F1, in which adverts whizz around a track surrounded by other adverts.
- It's Vegas!
  
  What would you really expect? Money-in is all they care about. Interesting doesn't equal money-in.
How long will FP3 be? 9 minutes? 90 minutes? Could be anything!

I wonder how dirty the circuit will be from being reopened and how fast it'll return to form
- Do they close the the roads on other city tracks for the entire 3 days? I get it’s a pain but seems like a good way to avoid a lot of the issues. But it’s a city track the city should be ready for detours and shit for a weekend. Idk seems like poor planning on Vegas point.
  
  Albert Park is closed for like 2 weeks before the race, but I guess it's a low traffic area regardless, it's not exactly the strip.
  
  They do for Baku and for Monaco as far as I understand. I dunno about the rest. It sure seems so at Singapore from what I can tell
@wes If anything similar to FP1 happens again then F1 is in serious trubble around here
- Gimme a "2"!
  
  Gimme a "0"!
  
  Gimme another "0"!
  
  Gimme a "5"!
  
  What does it spell? Commercial suicide!
  
  As always, biggest losers are the fans. At least there's two others on the calendar rather than just the one this time round.
I hope they got those drain covers fixed, 20 cars pounding over them for 2 hours scares the crap outta me, If Sainz and Ocon driving over them once wrecks two cars completely.
- They ran FP2 for 90 minutes without issue shortly after covering with cement, I'd say those won't be an issue now

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