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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.
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.
Really wish the organizers at tracks like Hockenheim or Sepang had the budget to host a race.
If only there was an Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team with connections to both countries that would push for that…
Mercedes the company put a boatload of money into the German GP and lost a fair amount of it.
“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.
The organizers lost money on that race most years.
Because the German car brand is not interested in paying the fees of a German GP to promote “quality made in Germany”.
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.
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I think it’s GP Name and then City. It’s just most races have the nation as the GP name.
They did Emilia Romagna for Imola. And 2x Monaco.
But weird nonetheless. I’d prefer the normal City, Country for all of them.
There can’t be more than one GP with the same name, which is why we’ve had names like the Luxembourg, San Marino, European, Pacific GPs, etc.
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?
Reading between the lines of what Domenicalli said, it’s the only week that the city would agree to, BECAUSE there are a fewer people
Glad Spa is still there.
Glad Spa is still there.
Fuck that death trap and get some actually good tracks back on the calendar.
It’s an excellent track with a legitimately fatal flaw. They need to fix it. That doesn’t make it a bad track.
I’d concur with Verstappen here and say that Jeddah is a more dangerous track; it’s just that there’s been fewer races on it to illustrate that point.
That doesn’t make it a bad track.
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?
F1: “Formula 1 has made clear its intention to move towards greater calendar regionalisation, reducing logistical burdens and making the season more sustainable.”
Also F1:
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.
Who the hell puts Canada in the middle of the European races?
First 2 races will be held on saturday instead of sunday due to Ramadan.
If the ME races are going to make sure they’re the first races of the season they shouldn’t get to dictate the schedule around their other events.
If they need to be off on Sunday for a religious holiday F1 should be racing somewhere else that week and only go back after the holiday is over.
