The reality of bringing that to life?
Turns out it’s a fucking shit show on all levels.
This is basically the F1’s version of Fyre Festival.
Let’s start with attendance.
No one wants to go to this thing as hotel prices have plummeted.
How bad have things gotten?
I wasnt planning on staying on the Las Vegas Strip for the race.
Yes, $18.
Ticket prices have also plummeted.
Both events were selling for around $1,000 originally.
A ticket to Saturdays race is still over $800 but they were over $1,600 just last month.
It’s not only being viewed as inconvenience for fans, but workers around the area as well.
Commutes to hotels have doubled and even tripled.
They started road work in April.
Theyre telling us they might not be completely done with the teardown until just before New Years Eve.
Is this our new reality?
Hotels have been forced to give away bonuses and prizes to people just for showing up to work.
Is this Smitty’s endgame?
Many other Las Vegas Strip hotels are offering hourly employees incentives to come to work this week.
Caesars is offering $100,000 in prizes and a drawing for a new BMW X3.
Last night practice sessions began and lasted all of eight minutes before everything was shut down.
Because of loose drain covers on the track.
This caused the practice runs to be delayed significantly as all manholes had to be checked and cleared.
They were racing throughout the streets at 3am because of the delays with no fans being allowed to watch.
Fans were then sent home and were threatened with trespass charges if they didn’t vacate the area.
Smiles were shared all around.
Did we forget where we are?
People are never told to go home.
It’s a city that truly never stops going.
Weve travelled here from Los Angeles just for today, one fan told Sky Sports F1.
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Think about that?
Spending tons of money to travel there from all over the country and even world.
Feels like a lawsuit could be on the way, no?
The video of Carlos Sainz’s car running over the loose drain cover is nuts.
He’s facing a grid penalty for needing new power unit components after his incident.
I’m not an F1 expert by any means, but how is he at fault here?
So we’ve got fans furious.
Employees around the area refusing to go to work.
Uber/taxi drivers not seeing it being not worth going into the city.
Yeah I’d say this is just about as colossal a fuck up as you could have imagined.
Should be a sick race though if they can manage to fix everything in two days' time.
It was supposed to rain this weekend but it looks to have miraculously cleared up.
Think the weather was just about the only thing that hadn’t added to the disaster.
Good news for the upset folks in Vegas, though.
This is just year one of a ten year deal to have this race there!
