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[-] alphacyberranger@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

What will it take for them to understand we don't want sprints?

[-] Sentau@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

For us to stop watching them and buying tickets to go see them at the circuit. As long sprint weekends have higher viewership(in terms of time spent watching formula 1), they have no reason to drop sprints no matter how much we bitch about it.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

you'd need to give them a better way to make more money over a race weekend. They can't add more races, so the only option is to squeeze more money out of the weekends they already have on the calendar.

[-] maxy@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

I feel like sprints make me less excited for the race itself. Almost like eating a snack before going to a restaurant, then I'm less hungry. Unless they fundamentally change the sprint format (reverse grid) I don't think I'll ever enjoy it over a normal weekend.

[-] neumast@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

As long as viewers spend more time in front of their TV during a sprint weekend, nothing will change... Doesn't matter if the main race is diluted, as long as ppl are still watching.

[-] SatouKazuma@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Fuck the sprint. How long until we can bin it?

[-] evanuggetpi@lemmy.nz 5 points 11 months ago

More Miami? Please, no.

[-] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Why is 'USA' specified for Austin, but not Miami.

Ah yes, the great nation of Miami.

[-] mhague@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

It's probably down to who gets to have the American GP.

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[-] STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Austin is the older race, and for a while it was the only American GP.

They do the same for other countries too; Monza has always been the Italian GP, but had we raced at Imola this year, that would've been the Emilia Romagna GP.

2020 also showed they'd do something with back-to-back races at the same track; Austria, Great Britain, and Bahrain all had one "definitive" GP each, but the followup race was called something different.

[-] florge@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

So they're keeping Austria and Brazil, so that they can say that sprints are exciting and should therefore stay.

[-] Sentau@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

COTA also has the capability to be a great circuit for a sprint

[-] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I'm surprised. They're not doing Vegas.

[-] bhmnscmm@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I'd take Vegas over Miami.

[-] Sentau@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

I think considering how difficult it was this year to organize the weekend, there is still a way to go before we get a sprint in vegas

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