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RACE WEEK

Also, time to brace for a week of comments about how the evil Liberty Media have corrupted the soul of the sport.
 
Speedster said:
RACE WEEK

Also, time to brace for a week of comments about how the evil Liberty Media have corrupted the soul of the sport.
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You mean like holding a procession around a Fake Marina in someone's car park 25 KM outside Miami and calling it a Destination City and more "glamorous than Monaco".

What makes you think anyone would complain about that?

Already they have extended the Grid Time Table to allow that overexcited boxing promoter to introduce the teams again or something equally cringe worthy.

Let the flames begin....
 
Hopefully Miami is as exciting as Baku was. That was just amazing to watch, the way they all just drove and did their best not to overtake anyone or anything. Fantastic stuff.
 
Newey agrees contract extension with Red Bull F1 team: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/newey-agrees-contract-extension-with-red-bull-f1-team/10463636/

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The legendary F1 designer’s current deal had been up for renewal at the end of this year, prompting recent speculation that he could be targeted by competitors.

But on the back of a dominant start to the 2023 season for Red Bull’s RB19, sources have revealed that the team and Newey have moved quickly to sort out the details of a new arrangement that will see them work together for many more years to come.

Newey will continue in his role as chief technical officer, having oversight of the progress of Red Bull’s F1 team, its Advanced Technology business and its new Powertrains division. ..."
 
Formula 1's Race Strategy in America Isn't Convincing Fans to Stick Around: https://jalopnik.com/f1s-us-race-strategy-not-convincing-fans-stick-around-1850374011

"Jalopnik spoke to several fans who attended F1's much-hyped race in Miami. The verdict wasn't good for the growth of the sport. ...

F1 might have spoken too soon, if only because its ambitious projects completely bypassed the fans ready to show up to as many races as possible and aimed directly at the VIPs. F1 fell for FOMO marketing.

FOMO, or “fear of missing out,” is an acronym that’s picked up traction in our social media influenced world because we can see so many people posting about their great lives, and we want to experience that, too. That fear of missing out lends itself easily to marketing; if that TikTok influencer credits a certain product with her youthful, dewy skin, you’ll really want to buy it. If that Instagrammer went to a particularly gorgeous place in Italy, well — you’ll want to go there, too.

But this kind of marketing strategy can only go so far, since it’s rooted in a rapidly changing attention economy. No influencer today is going to be able to make a career out of the “cottagecore” trend, because that trend is over. The influencer has to move on now that the hype surrounds a different trend.

You can see this at play with the Miami Grand Prix. That first year, everyone wanted to be there. It was a new race. It was exciting. It was going to be glamorous, but it also promised to be a little silly. It was the place to be if you wanted to be seen being an F1 fan in 2022.

This year, with less than a month to go until the race, the circuit is begging fans to renew their tickets. I spoke to another fan, Andrew, who forwarded me the increasingly desperate emails he got from the Miami GP organizers, pointing out flash sales and discounted ticket prices. The most recent was dated within three weeks of the race weekend — a drastic change from 2022, where tickets had sold out almost immediately.

FOMO marketing is a fine line to balance. On the one hand, charging hundreds or thousands of dollars for tickets to a race creates a sense of exclusivity that can contribute to people wanting to attend. But if no one at the track experienced hundreds or thousands of dollars of value, they aren’t going to come back. Instead of creating a dedicated fan, F1 has created an event doomed to wilt away as soon as the FOMO marketing hype moves on. We all know what the Miami GP is like now. We watched it happen. Maybe we were even there. But now, there’s another race — an even more expensive and exclusive race — on the calendar. Miami is no longer the place to be seen. Now, we’re looking at Las Vegas.

This strategy works, but not for long. The massive gulf between ticket prices and expectations at American street races aren’t designed to create long-term investments in the U.S. fanbase; it’s intended to make the most money in the shortest period of time. In the meantime, new F1 fans will lose interest. Long-term fans will turn their eyes abroad. The sport will wither away in America as quickly as it exploded. If Formula 1 intends to dig into the American audience for the long run, its current strategy is unsustainable. It needs to do better — not just for the fans, but for itself."
 
We are all quick to forget how boring F1 was with #7TimesFastestCarChampion and his teammate running into the distance every race. Now we had some of this greatest seasons of racing and excitement the last two years and now we complain about one boring race or two?
Did you forget how you used to sleep after 10 laps a few years ago?
Is it only the Merc fans complaining?
No Mikey No.
 
Great drive from Checo, I sincerely hope he takes the fight to Max for the rest of the season. As for the race those hard tyres pretty much killed any action that might have been forthcoming.
 
lkpat said:
George got away with it. He's a Merc boi. The stewards don't care.
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But the stewards answer to the FIA, who answer to FoM, who answer to Netflix, and they all want a large share of RedBull's catering budget.

No longer do we see the favoritism that ruled in the Ferrari vs McLaren era.
Now it is down to consumerism and profit driven knee jerk management.

The sport loses out either way, and the Fan's are the ones that are short changed, but at least in the Bernie Ecclestone Era the sport thrived. But now it is being milked for cash with no vision for the future.
Welcome to corporate America.

Most of us have been there in our careers or at least the corporate mentality, but for those who haven't, in the Corporate World the Shareholders profit must always comes first.

Viva Las Vegas (which, just to show the hypocrisy, translates as - “Long live the meadows!”)
 
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