re: 2022 Formula 1 Season Thread

Culturally and economically, I think it’s the most desirable host in the US. There’s a lot of money in Miami, and it’s an international city that appeals to Europeans.

It might just be a red herring anyway. I do think teams went through tires much faster than they anticipated. Which may take a few weeks to figure out and even longer to solve since tire selections are done weeks in advance.

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Was reported last year that F1 wanted 3 races in the US. I’d bet it would be San Diego or LA. East, Central, West.

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I do think teams went through tires much faster than they anticipated. Which may take a few weeks to figure out and even longer to solve since tire selections are done weeks in advance.

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This is great news to me. The worst thing for me is one-pit-stop races. The best is when teams decide on a mix of two and three pit stops.

BTW, I looked at the data for total pit lane time at the recent tracks, and I ordered them from shortest to longest. Bahrain was right in the middle at about 24s. Jeddah is among the quickest at 21s, so I hope that encourages more pit stops this weekend. Those tracks with 28-30s pit lanes are dogs!

Zandvoort 19s
Baku 20s
Hockenheimring 20s
Jeddah 21s
A1 Ring 21s
Abu Dhabi 21s
Hungaroring 21s
Barcelona 22s
Melbourne 22s
Mexico City 22s
Spa 23s
Suzuka 23s
Istanbul 23s
Interlagos 23s
COTA 24s
Monza 24s
Monaco 24s
Bahrain 24s
Montreal 24s
Losail 25s
Algarve 26s
Silverstone 28s
Singapore 29s
Imola 30s
Sochi 30s
Paul Ricard 30s

https://www.racefans.net/2021-f1-season/2021-f1-statistics/2021-f1-strategy-pit-stops/

I'd rather see them race on a real track versus another street circuit. Problem is most all road courses would need massive changes to appease F1.

Watkins Glen being back on the schedule would be great, but I can't imagine how many changes they would require.


Road America has flat out said they have zero interest in trying to draw F1.

@HaasF1Team gained a whopping 185,000 new social media followers this past weekend, so about 6% of its current total following came onboard just in recent days, per
@Zoomph
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The American audience tweeting about @F1 during the weekend was up 23% YOY, per Zoomph's analysis

Haas needs to use those metrics to get some sponsors.


And Steiner needs to quit saying he's surprised how well they did at Bahrain. True or not, it doesn't sound good to sponsors.

As far as this weekend, K Mag has not been able to get on the stimulator so has no practice at all on the track as he didn't run it last year. He's watched a lot of in car vids instead. (They never heard of iRacing or Asseto Corsa?)

Hopefully he's really good at learning tracks, but I expect a bit of a drop off, at least in Q, this week simply due being behind all the other drivers in experience at Jeddah.