I’ve read before that they would need to expand the run-off in the kink and the run up to Canada corner, but they can’t because there’s a road on the other side of the wall. It’s similar to the reason the run-off can’t be extended at Watkins Glen. They don’t own the land they’d need to use and they can’t buy it.

It was suspected that Riley was angling to do so for months before it happened. Van Gundy may possibly have had an actual issue that made it convenient, but I think it would have happened either way.

I just think it’s funny for a guy with a slimy reputation of his own to be questioning someone else’s character. He may be right, but he really isn’t the guy to point it out.

It’s a really nice venue. Doubly so with the museum.

Ideally, the race promoter would pay the sanctioning fee, not the city.

It’s just Barber, not Skip Barber. Skip Barber and his racing schools have no connection to Barber Motorsports Park ( named for George Barber ).

Grade 2 means no F1 though, unless the FIA loosen their standards.

CART raced at Tamiami park as well in the ‘80s.

Remember that time when GM Riley chased out his head coach Stan Van Gundy to swoop in and steal the glory of a championship run with the Heat for himself?

The look on Bottas’ face in that image is gold.

F1 won’t be going back to Long Beach as long as Indycar is there and Indycar renewed this past off-season for the next few years. St. Pete is a similar scenario, with Indycar being the headliner. The race promoters aren’t going to burn those bridges to switch to a series with much higher fees when attendance for both…

Aside from COTA and Indianapolis, there are no other tracks in the US that conform to FIA grade 1 standards. Any new F1 GP in the US would require extensive renovations to an existing course, or a temporary street course. Option 2 is cheaper and easier.

F1 want’s a US street race. Miami is as good a destination as any for a street race.

The various CART races in Miami used very short circuits as well ( all were less than 2 miles ), so I think F1 would use a new layout that is more in line with F1 track lengths.

AD is great and a superstar in his own right, but he’s basically a not-as-good KD.

Ricciardo was ahead earlier in the race after being bottled up by Verstappen. Max jumped ahead on a pit stop. To that point: getting caught out on a pit stop by a slower teammate can only be either intentional, on the part of the team, or a colossal fuck-up on the part of the team, because they’re the ones who decide…

It is like a more talented Webber and a less talented Vettel all over again at Redbull but a few years later.

You have the order completely wrong. Verstappen moved in reaction to Ricciardo both times.

Ricciardo took a huge risk by dive-bombing the corner, especially so far inside, but Max’s bad blocking habits are the primary cause of the collision. Ricciardo may well have overshot the corner anyway after braking so late, so Verstappen had no reason to block so aggressively.

Definitely not his wisest moment.