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

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  • Photographer@lemmy.worldM
    5·
    1 year ago

    Rolls Royce probably considered to be more of a luxury vehicle as it’s foreign and known for the build quality and finish

    Agreed the racing was poor, just slipstream and DRS, which I noticed Karun called “drafting” today…

    • Muscle Krampus :bc:@beige.party
      102·
      1 year ago

      @Photographer @formula1 I enjoyed the racing, and it seems the drivers did too. Everyone wants to shit on this race and I’m fucking tired of hearing the negativity. It was a great race, lots of action, super high speeds, what’s not to love?

      • Photographer@lemmy.worldM
        101·
        1 year ago

        Half the race was a DRS train, I don’t think there was “lots of action” or any great racing. I’d rather see high speed corners and corners with multiple lines than the high speed straights and DRS overtakes. Also the deliberate attempts to force spectacle detract from the race, the over crowded grid walk with virtually no interesting celebrities despite being in Vegas, driving to a hotel for an interview delaying the podium, celebrity flag waver who looked like he didn’t want to be there. All this on a backdrop of losing Hockenheim and risking the loss of Spa and Silverstone. Sorry if you feel that’s negative, but F1 is going in the wrong direction with this, Miama and Saudi Arabia.

        • Cheesebaron@feddit.dk
          81·
          1 year ago

          So many cool tracks in the US like Laguna Seca, Sebring, Road America and many others. Instead, they chose to race in the capitals of greed like Miami and Las Vegas. Great 👍 Any other track would have made for better racing. But it is all about the 💰 Everything felt so forced this weekend to make it appear good.