I’m amazed it’s never been talked about. Would have thought it would be a banker for another Middle Eastern circuit.Human rights issues aside, if they absolutely must have another race in the Middle East, Dubai Autodrome is a much better layout. Some banked corners (though not as severe as Zandvoort) and actual elevation change instead of the flat and featureless Losail circuit. It's basically Paul Ricard without the seizure inducing runoff areas
I could be wrong but I believe Abu Dhabi have an exclusivity deal for that proximity area preventing a race in Dubai. Dubai is only 140km from the Abu Dhabi circuit whereas Qatar is 600km away, Bahrain is 750km.
Not a good sign for later this month as it faced the same bumpy issues two years ago. Did the riders say where on the track, the bumps were?
Seems they're kind of everywhere but particularly bad in turns 1-3 & 10.
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That's not good to hear. I remember the area around Turn 10 was the issue back in 2019 & hearing the cars bottom out.Seems they're kind of everywhere but particularly bad in turns 1-3 & 10.
Quartararo says Austin’s COTA track is “unsafe” for MotoGP
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No Stefano, it has not.
The first laps at silverstone sprint were entertaining and gave us Alonso on a a charge. Monza was as Monza is.F1 has only worked out one thing about sprint qualifying: It wants more
F1 will have more sprint qualifying races next year, says CEO Stefano Domenicali, but other questions over the format remain unanswered.
So despite it being terrible, Sprint is un$urpri$ingly going to be kept, and extended to at least 7 events.
I mean we all knew the "It's a trial, we'll decide whether to keep it after that" was hokum but I expected them to be a little less transparent.
No Stefano, it has not.
Well that's the thing, it makes no sense. Why spend all that effort on making cars which can more easily overtake and then consign most of that racing to a sprint race on a Saturday?
Look at the metrics (crowd numbers) instead of the racing and you'll understand why it's a "success"F1 has only worked out one thing about sprint qualifying: It wants more
F1 will have more sprint qualifying races next year, says CEO Stefano Domenicali, but other questions over the format remain unanswered.
So despite it being terrible, Sprint is un$urpri$ingly going to be kept, and extended to at least 7 events.
I mean we all knew the "It's a trial, we'll decide whether to keep it after that" was hokum but I expected them to be a little less transparent.
No Stefano, it has not.
That's monetary speaking. Generally speaking, how was it a success? It didn't make the race on Sunday any better, it didn't make normal quali any better (Quite the opposite, devalued it and changed decades of tradition in awarding of pole), and the races themselves were nothing to write home about.
Do you have a wide range of viewing figures for both events? I've only seen UK data for Silverstone which was slightly up but how much of that was down to the novelty/new factor? F1 viewing figures are also already on a general upward trend thanks to the popularity of Drive to Survive.
F1 has only worked out one thing about sprint qualifying: It wants more
F1 will have more sprint qualifying races next year, says CEO Stefano Domenicali, but other questions over the format remain unanswered.
So despite it being terrible, Sprint is un$urpri$ingly going to be kept, and extended to at least 7 events.
I mean we all knew the "It's a trial, we'll decide whether to keep it after that" was hokum but I expected them to be a little less transparent.
No Stefano, it has not.
Which one? Spa they're levelling the land either side of Radillion to be able to add more run off and gravel to try to prevent the cars spilling back onto the track issue. Abu Dhabi they're making two main alterations and a few more minor ones.
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If only Suzuka was not in term-time...
