Miami GP Talking Points

The whole Miami Grand Prix experience was... quite something! But for all it's wildly intense promotion, the race was not that exciting - but it's problems can be fixed and there's plenty to get excited for going forward at Miami!

#Formula1 #F1 #MiamiGP

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Music: "Chess Moves" by Telegrams

[GunganWorks]

Here so early the video title was still “Miami Talking pts YT”

[NimbleSnek]

TV direction was dreadful this race. At one point it was nothing but Max driving around with no one around him for an entire lap while people were swapping positions left and right in the midfield. Absolutely infuriating seeing multiple cars with <0.5 second gaps while the feed was showing the leader with no one around. That and crowd shots.

[luisg.m.garcia]

Whoever's idea was to put Australia, Imola, Miami, Catalunya and Monaco in a row on the schedule must be a really funny person

[freddiep]

Glad Chain Bear reminded me that I’m watching on YT 👍

[MikeM-soje]

As an American who's been watching since the 90s, it's bittersweet to see the popularity skyrocket. It's all based on the spectacle and has little do with racing. If you thought Miami looked cheap and fabricated, Vegas is essentially a giant tourist trap.

[tttimok]

I’ve been waiting all day for Miami Talking pts YT!

[sicariussicarius]

On the Point of the missing tec-pro barrier:
The FIA actually investigated wether auch a barrier would be a Good idea at that specific corner. However they deemed it a Bad idea because such a Barrier (or any other barrier that would reduce impact forces) would have a high likeliehood to make the car bounce off the Wall and rebound into the track because of the corner specification.
This would then be a High risk of a car-to-car accident instead of a car and Wall accident which would be FAR More dangerous.
Because the speeds the cars reach at that Turn aren‘t very High to begin with, the FIA deemed it more safe to risk a few cars colliding with the Barrier rather than having a car bouncing back into Traffic and causing a huhge collision with far worse consequences.

Obviously though, the drivers disaggreed with the FIAs' assessment. Whom you believe to be right in this case is up to you, ultimately though there isn't a clear cut decision to be made.

[BrettJones]

6:16 the war on jewellery... simple. Tell 'em to loose the jewellery! I run construction sites in Australia. Jewellery is pretty much banned outright from all our job sites. For safety reasons, and this includes wedding rings and religious icons. The overpaid prima donna's of F1 need to realise they're not above the rules. The F1 cockpit is their work environment, and a dangerous one. This includes rules on protective clothing as well. Hell, it's already banned from our kids touch-football comp.

[Jrh-rpnp]

Dude I mean it wasn’t the greatest race, , but we had leader get passed from the Driver who started 3rd on the grid … we had some pretty good midfield battles, , GR and Ocon on recovery drives who both recovered nicely … and then we had what everyone seems to want to make a good race nowadays a safety car… With Charles putting mega pressure on Max for a few laps, , not a bad little Sunday

[exiledtie]

One thing missed in this video regarding the jewellery ban is that the rule specifically mentions necklaces, piercings and watches, but emits rings and other such objects. Rings have a much higher risk factor due to horrible things like degloving so for the FIA to enforce the rule but ignore them suggests that there is something wrong with the way they are enforcing it. Secondly, Hamilton's jewellery is all MRI scan safe and so that's not a problem either.

[Atticuslack]

While I completely agree about the tractors. But then as an ex Marshall I would say what about the guys out on track why don't we get a ultra slow zone? Going on track during a SC is still insanely scary

[cube]

I was with the FIA on the jewellery ban until I read that watches and wedding rings are not banned/enforced under the ban, which is super hypocritical and makes me think that the new enforcement is aimed at Lewis specifically, with Seb even saying so.

[loganstewart]

If it weren’t for the idea of quickly being able to scan in the event of serious injury, I’d agree with Lewis about the driver’s ability to wear jewelry. However, as an EMT, I can attest to how difficult, fiddly, and surprisingly time consuming it is to remove jewelry in the event that a CT scan is necessary (and we don’t even do that unless asked to lend a helping hand to nurses in the emergency department). Despite safety features getting better to protect the neck and head, when you need to not only remove metal objects so the magnetic scanner doesn’t turn them into a projectile attached to skin, but also needing to keep the head and neck as stable as humanly possible during transport, jewelry can be the difference between a fixed aneurysm leaving only minor injury and debilitating or lethal brain injuries.

[SiVlog]

Overhyped is the perfect way to sum up this weekend. It just made me feel like the flop that was the race seem far bigger as a result, the more they hyped it, the bigger the flop it has become. You can tell it's bad when cameras spend more time looking at the "threat" of rain than what little action there was on track (well, car park more accurately)

[potatopotato]

It's amazing how F1 managed to go to Sochi without going to Russia. Without the safety car this would have been incredibly dull.

[gavinmurray]

I kind of understand lewis's "it should be our call we're just affecting ourselves" argument...but I'd argue that he isnt. A) he's encouraging younger drivers to takr needless risks for no real reason and B) if the marshalls and medics helping him in an accident are hindered by his jewellery and (god forbid) he dies, he's scarring those people for life unnecessarily. I really think it should be a case of the fia just saying no to him on this

[someonedifferent]

About the heavy machinery on track, a good example was Juan Pablo Montoya hitting a jet dryer under caution in nascar. Accidents can happen even under yellow

[that.guy]

1:59 cheers for reminding me Corden exists…I’d blissfully forgotten for a minute -_-

[NothingXemnas]

While I don't think jewelry actually affects safety, I still think it is a good measure NOT to wear it during a race. As a former chemical lab worker, we were enforced not to wear anything that could hand out of our bodies (eg anything with chains or is a chain itself), plus lab coat, shoes and glasses.

Pilots already wear helmets and suits, so the only thing that could add unnecessary complications are chains. If Hamilton cannot let go of jewelries, particularly piercings, at least substitute them for balls and pins instead of ones that dangle and fling around.

[krism]

Honestly as an actual resident of the city it all feels bittersweet watching this.
While I'm glad we finally got our circuit, it's not even the original planned one. The part of Miami everyone actually goes to as a tourist, Bayside, was only used in the inaugural series of Formula E which I had a great time attending.
But as cool as having this course is it comes only two weeks after we lost an icon of Miami racing in Palm Beach International Raceway. It doesn't have the glitz and glamour of the city of Miami but neither does this Miami GP! Living close as I do to this course it's not a place anyone visiting this city would go to besides just to see the race, the NFL team, or the strip club. It's not really Miami and it being temporary means that we don't have a track for the people of South Florida anymore. There is Homestead but it just doesn't feel the same with it's only real public section being the drag strip that isn't even a quarter mile and the occasional Give back nights that only let you buy a few laps.
There's no club, no big track nights, no passing on those public days, it's just not real racing and I wish they could have found a way to save Palm Beach or actually get to use Bayside without running into city issues and sports team issues.