I live in Las Vegas and will NOT be attending the race here. A $500 ticket gets you some concrete to stand on and a glimpse of the cars. Want to sit down? Bleachers are (IIRC) $2,000 and up. Anywhere near the pits is in five figures. The very best experiences are over a million dollars. $1,000,000 and up. Nope, I’ll…

Ugh, yeah. It felt like a ton of folks stayed home from COTA last year because it was too expensive...so the solution was to raise prices again? Insanity.

“I had this bad feeling about it from the moment I bought my tickets,” he said. “I convinced my wife to swing by Monaco on our honeymoon. Miami’s prices? Blew Monaco out of the water.”

I hate Miami. They convinced Cota to bring ticket prices in line with a track that is not even 10% as good as Cota. Just shy of $500 for GA is not a good deal. I’ve been going since 2014 and I’ll sit this one out.

The sheer expense is what has turned me off trying to attend an F1 event, and has been for a really long time. The ROI on the tickets just isn’t there, let alone any travel and accommodations you might need.

F1's been bad at weather-related scheduling forever. Malaysia in April, Japan in monsoon season, etc. About the only thing they get right consistently is “don’t go to the middle east in the summer.”

Think of the drama of racing down Lower Wacker Drive though!

THIS. Always after a cash grab instead of growing a true audience and fan base.

Interesting, I’ve never thought of Miami as a glamour city. It’s probably the most “glamourous” city you could get to agree to something like that though, LA and SF would tell you to pound sand for a dirty combustion race, LOL at trying to race F1 cars through NYC or Chicago.

The main reason F1 is garbage in the U.S. is because the prices to see the race are insane. The Las Vegas grand prix grandstand tickets started at $2,500.

It was cheaper for me to fly to Belgium and get a 3-day pass for the race instead.

Let’s be honest, this has always been F1's problem. To become a real long-term F1 fan you REALLY have to be into the technical side of the sport, the chance your favorite driver/team will be competitive for a long period of time is virtually nil. Everyone wants to talk about the boring racing these days, but 2010-2014…

If this was the experience in Miami just imagine how bad it will be in Vegas, a city that literally only exists to separate visitors from their money.

So, the Miami GP is not only terrible on TV ?

I fear Las Vegas will be the same (or worse) than Miami.

I don’t like Gulf Oil liveries

Personally, I cannot stand the hot pink Auto Nation cars and would have ranked them last. Brings back the memories of the godawful October NFL hot pink uniform trim that was festooned on us (I know, I know, breast cancer awareness...great cause, lousy looking uniforms....for a month no less!)

The rising sea level will solve that problem.

Here’s my variant.

This is the dumbest thing I’ve seen come out of Florida in AT LEAST 10 minutes.  

The only thing I can imagine is that the nine yachts in the manmade lake will be permanent fixtures there? Either way this whole project looks ridiculous but considering it’s less than an hour from where I live I’ll probably swing by. Sitting in the grandstands of course.