@@samfitzpatrick7891Sadly I don't think F1 are interested in funding them either, we're in danger of losing so many good tracks, having a couple of races per season that has a set rotation would satisfy a lot of people, calendar is looking more and more Formula e like every year with these street races. Most important of all, Spa still isn't safe, 1 year extension is a massive red flag.
It starts in Aus and ends in Brazil and I will hold that view til the day I die. Comfortably, 5-6 races could be cut and not missed, and another couple added, and I’d be content with that.
If only they'd contract races on a rotational basis - if imola switched with mugello every other year and catalunya with Jerez maybe they would be less stale (though it won't inherently make the racing better )
Surprised you didn't mention the ridiculous trip that is LV to AD to end the year. They literally couldn't have chosen 2 races further apart from each other to end it
It's silly that F1 tries to pretend it's being more environmentally friendly despite a calender like this. Crossing halfway around the world twice just for the last legs of the championship is absurdly silly. It really doesn't matter how little fossil fuels the cars burn in fuel when you've got 10 teams and hundreds of people taking planes around the world a dozen times minimum a season.
Wow! As a Brazilian, it really brings me joy to see our GP so highly rated :) It's an amazing track and I hope to drive there at least once in my life. Just a minor correction, though, it's SÃO or SAO, with an 'O', instead of a 'U'.
I think it's universal opinion that the Brazilian GP is a complete banger! Easily top three, defo a contender for best of the season for a long time now
Once again...WE NEED A GERMAN GRAND PRIX. If for no other reason than two of the most successful drivers in F1 ever are from Germany, there needs to be one yesterday.
I know you said no speculation, but can you do a video with an "optimum Chain Bear score" to see what we could be scoring out of? Genuinely would be curious to see this type of video from you!
the point im here is that some interesting CB opinions are always good to hear and if you pair that with a scientific approach testing new things that could work for F1 sign me up for that...
Well we could mention human rights violations for all of the host countries to begin with. Saudi is still the worst place on earth for a human being, and Qatar was highlighted for the use of actual slave work, as well :p
We've almost finished our gloomhaven campaign we started in 2019... I've been skipping races i don't like this year and it's been great! France, the terrible new street circuits, the terrible old street circuits.. it's like a pick n mix now, worth losing my "haven't missed a race since 2000" record/brag.
@@dlake1224 i think it's simply that this year is a bit of a novelty with more passing due to new regulations. I don't imagine they're going to be stand out races generally. And you can always go back and watch if it sounds like you missed out on something exceptional!
@@RageBadgerGaming gloomhaven is epic! Even after all this time we're surprised by having new and creative challenges in scenarios. Very well designed game!
being in high school with WAAAY too many extracurriculars i simply don't have time to watch all the races. This year I've watched whatever I can, which is Bahrain race, Saudi quali, half of Australia race, Imola Sprint, Miami race, Spain race, Britain race, Hungary race, half of Dutch race, and Italian race
We've got to the point where we have too many races. Race fatigue sets in in the autumn, each race's importance in the championship is diluted, the championship is way more likely to be settled with several races to go. I still remember the good old days of 16 race seasons, you didn't waste half your weekends, you genuinely looked forward to the next race, it had only proper circuits and it ended in October in Suzuka. Then you had 5 months to get pumped up for the next season. Now with almost half of the year's weekends having races I'm getting too saturated, and I'm finding myself struggling to follow whatever random street circuit grand prix in an obscure dictatorship. 2020 calendar was just perfect. 17 races, lots of proper European circuits added that we never saw again. Where's mugello, where's portimao?
Yeah, spot on. Race fatigue is tough...and way worse when the championship gets wrapped up early. At least in 2021 we had a great battle to the decider. If someone wraps up 2023 with 8 races to go it'll be painful.
I love the editor for this video. “There’s a limit to what you can glitter” is the best way I’ve ever seen someone describe Vegas (coming from a Southern Californian)
Japan: One of the few races where Europeans have to get up at a weird time Las Vegas: The race where probably everybody has to watch at a weird time, thanks to being a saturday night race local time :D
5pm for me So not really It's actually one of the only races that doesn't ruin both my sleep schedule and my mood and energy for the day after the race
@@chrismdb5686 So judgemental. The track looks pretty good with nice turns and hairpins and the Strip being used as the long straight line. istg It seems that you guys don't have a legit reason to bash on American races other than pettiness or hating it for the sake of it.
@@accent1666 I am American, the track does not look like it'll produce good racing (like Miami). Put em on a good circuit (the country has plenty) and I'd be far more interested.
Nobody will ever convince me that sprint races add anything to F1, they're boring and the only reason they're entertaining in F2/3 is because they're spec series.
i wonder will they even have a public race there anyway... China is still headstrong in the middle of zero COVID... if they are gonna have a race it's gonna be like the Tokyo 2020 all over again except more closed and more zones... probably no public (plus the locals are scared to be lock up due to sudden lockdown due to infection)
Other than taking up half of my year's weekend my issue with this massive calendar is that there's a lot of back to back races, and triple headers so the power doesn't shift as much between the teams from race to race, simply because there's been no new development of parts.
It's time for F1 to increase the salary cap or simply pay the teams to allow teams to have 2 lots of fly away mechanics/engineers etc. F1 is making an absolute killing at the expense of the teams and its members who really do get a very raw deal.
Agree. This schedule just screams for A and B teams. Each doing a 3 week trip, with 2 or 3 races during the trip. Maybe instead of flying home, after Australia. The home front can fly out for a sightseeing trip of China, with the team.
Zooming in on Switzerland, while talking about Austria just shows, how no one seems to remember the Austrian races. Last year we even had two of those... No one remembers... (yeah I am an Austrian myself and can't remember these races)
I refuse to believe there exists a single board game group that has actually 100%-ed Gloomhaven. Not finishing is part of the experience, welcome to the club!
@@dexcuracy we were about to do what felt like the final boss fight and just haven't managed to get around to it. We even switched to playing in TTS over the pandemic.
Man if it were up to me, I’d cut out Bahrain, Saudi, Baku, Miami, Vegas, Qatar, China, and Abu Dhabi. Absolutely abysmal tracks imo and I always hate the races there (Vegas is just unnecessary as it’s another night street circuit which have lost all of their luster since they’re so many of them). When street circuit/night race was just Singapore, it was actually special. Now Saudi, Qatar, Bahrain, Baku, Miami, and Vegas all do that same formula basically and it’s exhausting, boring, and not fun. That’s not even taking into account the political baggage of racing in countries like Saudi and Azerbaijan
You've validated f1's approach of stuffing in extra races. As long as they score above 3/10 since you only subtracted 12 points they get a higher score from having more races
I think it should have division factor of how many race there are. you can add or subtract, but end of day if you have this many race, how much of it is that worth it?
Pls make a video on how f1 racing would look like if it happened from one circuit to the next closest circuit and so on starting from Australia to Las Vegas. Interestingly, Suzuka is so close to being the eastern most circuit in the world lol. Albert park just squeezed through tbh.
The fact that Azerbaijan is rated an 8, sames as Silverstone and Suzuka tells you everything you need to know about F1 fandom. When this track was announced, it received the same hate that Miami gets today. "Another boring street track" "no on track action" "mickey mouse section through the castle" "boring 90 degree corners" etc etc. A few years later, it's up there with the best tracks in the world. I fully expect the same to happen to Miami. Once the tarmac settles, and convergence of car design starts to happen under the new rules bringing the field back together, the track will provide a better show than staples like Barcelona, Monaco, or Melbourne. But, unlike Azerbaijan, Americans will never get the praise, because "aMeRiCaNs aRe RuInInG f1"
I was at Miami as a spectator, and all it reinforced to me was that F1 is only there for prestige, not to make more fans of F1 in America. Unless they can get the rampant overpricing under control, fix the logistical nightmare that they built for themselves, get rid of the stupid chicane under the bridge, and improve the general admission facilities so people aren't sick with heat exhaustion left and right, Miami will continue to be a garbage venue only there to cater to the rich destination crowd. Vegas threatens to be more of the same.
@@StarkRaven59 I was at Miami the Miami GP, and I already bought my tickets for 2023. All this whining is from people that are broke. F1 is a premium product, and such be priced as such. The entire venue was sold out, so clearly pricing was not a barrier for success
@@VictorFAmaya I got in for free. Even that wasn't worth it. The product I saw at Miami was far from "premium". As a spectator I got standing room by the fences, two-ish grandstands, an arena where the view to the track was blocked by the multi-thousand dollar themed areas, anemic "water fountains" that took minutes plural to fill a normal water bottle and most of the time weren't even cold, porta-johns for bathroom facilities, and a five-mile walk to anything on an asphalt jungle because of poor routing. Almost no wonder the hospitals nearby were slammed with heat exhaustion victims. And while the concession food was good, it was still expensive for what I got. Oh, but don't forget the "yacht club" on a fake beach with tan felt where I could peruse a vendor display and get my own bespoke, multi-million dollar large boat. All the while the actual boats on the clear plastic "marina" were pumping massive amounts of water because those stupid goddamn things run their AC on water circulation. Miami was a farce, and if that's what F1 considers a "premium product", then it's not worth wasting money on. If this is how F1 wants to get fans in the US, they're going about it completely wrong.
Seeing someone whining about "rampant overpricing" only to then admit he got it for free must be one of the most hilarious self-owns i've read in a long long time XD
In Spain there is a circuit, called "circuito del Jarama" (which already hosted quite some f1 gps from back in the 60s to 1981) that is very likely to be updated and reformed by the same guy who modernized Zandvoort, it's looking to replace current Barcelona circuit when their contract ends in like 2026. Hopefully the race track turns out well and we finally get some actual good racing in a Spanish gp. Another thing to add, Paul Ricard circuit was reformed to be a test track so, instead of using Barcelona circuit why don't they use Paul Ricard for pre-season testing now that it's out of calendar?
My ideal Calendar: A lot of annual rotation so we can visit more circuits and places like Malaysia and India which lost commercial interest from hosting every year could may well make every 2 years work: Round 1 - Australasia (March-April) 1. Australia - classic opener 2. Malaysia/India - alternating year by year - great actual racing track to see which cars/drivers are performing 3. Singapore - Enduring night race on a street track 1 week break 4. China/Korea 5. Japan - alternate between Suzuka/Fuji - Finale of the first leg, potential for a reverse championship order sprint race, winner of this round 1 gets their own little trophy. 2 week break Round 2 - Middle East/Africa (May-June) 6. Abu Dhabi 7. Bahrain 8. Baku/somewhere new like Morocco or anywhere where there is oil money 1 week break 9. Turkey 10. - South Africa - Finale of the second leg. Again a reverse championship order sprint race. 2 week break Round 3 - European Leg (July/August) 11. Monaco 12-14 Choose any 3 of Austria/Hungaroring/Nurbergring/Paul Ricard/Imola/Magny Cour/Portimao/Barcelona/Finland 15. Zandfort - annual as long as Max is on the grid, then can get shuffled in with the 12-14 choices 3 week Summer Break Round 4 - European Classics Leg (Late August - Early September - Triple Header) 16. Silverstone - Finale of third leg. 17. Spa 18. Monza - winner of this mini round gets a classic crown of tweeds or something, these could be wildcard races where all 3 have a sprint race and helps close the grid for the final leg. 2 week break Round 5 - Americas (October - November) 19. Canada (the only real weather concern preventing a logical flow is holding this race in what would be early October) 20-21. Choose 2 US races from Ia street track and Indianapolis/Austin 22. Mexico 23. Grand Finale in Brazil.
The one thing I'm afraid on this (superb, by the way) calender is Canada at the end. I've never been there personally (hell I'm on the other side of the hemisphere lol), but so close to the end of the year, wouldn't it be snowing by then? Regardless, loved it.
@@felipearellano2811 Canadian here, been to the race twice, also love this calendar. (besides it still being a little long) No it won’t be snowing in montreal in October, but there will be frost on windows every morning and an average temp of a 5-10 degrees (Celsius) range. Plus rain and wind are likely. I live in southeastern Ontario and we haven’t had a proper sunny day in what feels like all of september
12:30 Las Vegas, glitter and glammer, boring racing, danger, expensive, red bull domination and a boring track shaped like an upside down pig. 1.5/10, my least favourite of the whole calendar
My biggest gripe with the calendar is the back and forth between all the continents for no reason during the season. My sister ended up working out that this current calendar is somewhere around 125 thousand kilometres of travel. If the calendar was changed to start in Japan, move through Asia to Australia, jump across to brazil and back up to do the US and Canada, then do all the European countries west to east, it can be cut down to just over 50 thousand kms of travel instead. I'm curious what the spending difference would be between the two would be, and if it has much bearing on their net zero thing.
Yeh exactly, they're all about going green, but then whoever's heading logistics pulls this s**t. Cut it down to 50 like you say, and bring back the V10s!
There's quite a few races tied to specific dates (Monaco and Canada, for example), plus the first and last have paid for that position. That said, even with those constraints, you could do a *lot* to reduce the total travel distance.
There is something to remember, various locations have weather risks. Going to Canada in the later parts of the year runs the risk of being too cold, possibly even snowed out. Visiting the hot areas, like Miami, Texas, or the Middle Eastern countries at the height of their summer makes things dangerously hot, for drivers, teams, and visiting spectators. Coastal or island venues might have monsoon or hurricane seasons. You get the idea. I do agree that the random jumping around is very detrimental to F1's almost shambolic promises to reduce their carbon footprint, but there are some compromises that will have to be made to reduce the issues outside factors might bring.
I will never understand people's obsession with having less races. From the people working in the teams' POV it makes a whole lot of sense. But as a fan: I always hate when there is no F1, 2 weeks break like now makes me miss it a lot. For me the optimal schedule would be F1 every second week on average throughout the year.
@@Sam-th4jl and when has F1 made you watch it? Why is that the main thing people that are against more races say? I stopped watching football that much because to follow a team I need to watch 2 matches 90 mins each every week of the team and then at least 2 other matches of rival teams to be fully into the standings etc. But in F1 you have 2 hours each second Sunday (even less) where all 20 drivers are to be seen together. You can watch quali if you want and that takes it up to 3 hours per weekend. Is that too much for you? Well don't watch then.
I think a bit too long, as much as we love F1, I'm not really interested in lots of boringfests in these awful new circuits and the hypocrisy of claiming to be eco friendly all the time while constantly going back and forth to different continents. That's my main criticisms of the new calendar.
I think the timings are weird. I think you couls improve it by just changing the order of the venues. R1: Albert Park, Australia 🇦🇺 || 5 Mar 2023 R2: Sakhir, Bahrain 🇧🇭 || 19 Mar 2023 R3: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 || 26 Mar 2023 R4: Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇦 || 9 Apr 2023 R5: Monte Carlo, Monaco 🇲🇨 || 16 Apr 2023 R6: Imola, Emilia Romagna 🇮🇹 || 30 Apr 2023 R7: Red Bull Ring, Austria 🇦🇹 || 14 May 2023 R8: Hungaroring, Hungary 🇭🇺 || 21 May 2023 R9: Spa, Belgium 🇧🇪 || 4 Jun 2023 R10: Zandvoort, Netherlands 🇳🇱 || 11 Jun 2023 R11: Silverstone, United Kingdom 🇬🇧 || 25 Jun 2023 R12: Monza, Italy 🇮🇹 || 9 Jul 2023 R13: Baku, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 || 23 Jul 2023 R14: Marina Bay, Singapore 🇸🇬 || 13 Aug 2023 R15: Shanghai, China 🇨🇳 || 27 Aug 2023 R16: Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵 || 3 Sep 2023 R17: Montréal, Canada 🇨🇦 || 17 Sep 2023 R18: Miami, United States 🇺🇲 || 1 Oct 2023 R19: Austin, United States 🇺🇲 || 15 Oct 2023 R20: Las Vegas, United States 🇺🇲 || 22 Oct 2023 R21: Mexico City, Mexico 🇲🇽 || 5 Nov 2023 R22: São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷 || 12 Nov 2023 R23: Lusail, Qatar 🇶🇦 || 26 Nov 2023 R24: Yas Marina, Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪 || 3 Dec 2023
24 races is, for me at least, 6-7 races too much. Half the excitement around F1 when I first started following it closely in early 2000s was the waiting between races and then making sure not to miss one. Now, if I miss one who cares, next weekend is new race. And when one team dominates like this year then last quarter of the season is like who cares, I have other things to do
I know that F1 is inherently a European sport, despite it always being advertised as a Global one, but it has expanded into the US significantly. I'm glad that people are embracing that three races isn't that bad (although I'd prefer to scrape Miami in lieu of another US track already). The US is huge compared to Europe. In fact, the US is over double the size of the entire EU (including the UK and Ireland) and I feel like people truly underestimate that. It's also the most diverse nation in the world. How Africa and Germany is completely unrepresented is beyond me. South Africa should've been added onto this calendar. Monaco needs to go. I get the heritage and legacy, but it's entirely incompatible with F1 as it is today. All things come to an end. I actually like Qatar, and I'm REALLY excited to see these ground effect cars go through S2. Qatar as a country actually isn't as bad as the west portrays. I've been there personally and it's actually pretty liberated (moreso than Bahrain or Saudi Arabia) aside from small factions of Shia's. It's as free and safe as the US is in today's generation. Overall, it's another F1 schedule, but there's always room for improvement, and there needs to be some serious evaluation surrounding certain tracks and the lack of representation in Africa.
Completely disagree with there being too many races, and the last time you took feedback on the matter I believe that was the majority opinion. Frankly if I have other plans on a weekend I can literally just *not* watch F1 and either watch the race back later, which provides fun high quality content for whenever I have time in the week or I can catch the highlights if I don't much care for the particular race which is what I used to do anyway before video on demand was a thing. Having more F1 *available* is pretty much always a good thing in my books.
10:41 this is important Monaco, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar need to be deleted. The calendar should be east to west for logistics. Start in Australia, End in Brazil. Bring back France, and Germany.
If you are going to dock Saudi Arabia for its human rights record - as you should - you pretty much have to dock Bahrain, Baku, China, Qatar, and Yas Marina for the same. And I'd be fine with losing all of those races from the calendar.
No problem with usa having 3 gp’s but do wish the two that aren’t called the American gp would be called the Florida and Nevada gp’s and race under their state flags instead off 3 races with identical flag …… also for same reason wish imola would go back to being the San Marino gp .
'net zero carbon by 2030' but we're gonna travel 150 000 km for this calendar instead of roughly 50 000 km if the races were held in groups, e.g. begin with middle eastern races, then european races, then the races in the americas then finishing the season with the races in the far east and pacific
i mostly agree with your science. I also come out on 128.1. Only difference is I would have given china 5 instead of 7 and give 2 points for the fact that Paul Ricard is off the calendar.
Makes a bit of a mockery of the notion of sustainability, carting that shit backwards and forwards across the globe. Edit: If Monaco ever gets dropped F1 will be dead to me.
Not sure why Azerbaijan gets treated any better than Saudi given they're doing active war just like Russia and Saudi Arabia. How does nobody mention this ever?
Formula 1 02/05 None 02/12 None 02/19 Pre-Season Test (Rotation) 02/26 None 03/05 Australian GP 03/12 Chinese GP 03/19 None 03/26 Bahrain GP 04/02 Saudi Arabian/Qatar GP 04/09 None 04/16 Azerbaijan/Turkish GP 04/23 None 04/30 San Marino GP 05/07 None 05/14 French/Miami GP 05/21 None 05/28 Monaco GP 06/04 Spanish/Portuguese GP 06/11 None 06/18 Canadian GP 06/25 None 07/02 British GP 07/09 None 07/16 German GP 07/23 Austrian GP 07/30 Hungarian GP 08/06 None 08/13 None 08/20 None 08/27 Belgian GP 09/03 Dutch GP 09/10 None 09/17 Italian GP 09/24 None 10/01 Singapore/Mayalsian GP 10/08 Japanese GP 10/15 None 10/22 United States GP 10/29 Mexican GP 11/05 None 11/12 Abu Dubai GP 11/19 None 11/26 Las Vegas/South African GP 12/03 Brazilian (Sao Paulo) GP 24 races
It took me 24 years to have the courage to miss a live race. And the day I finally did, because of work, I met and had a 10 minute face to face with my F1 hero. I learned a lot that day. 😊
I think china will have a pretty good atmosphere considering they have their own driver in the sport now, i mean look at how good the atmosphere at mexico is for checo
I understand editing software was playing up, but man it would've been nice to have a track layout visible when discussing each race. I can't remember all layouts but a simple 2d line would've helped massively :)
Ok the thing about Saudia Arabia being hard to overtake is not true considering Max and Charles were playing DRS chicken. I also think while it isn’t a great track that was probably the race of the year for me at least when it comes to battles for the lead.
Something to note about the Las Vegas race is that its' supposed to start at 10pm local time on the Saturday evening. That means the race will be finishing at around midnight. Seems extreme for a sports event. I know driver/team jet lag is totally overlooked for the calendar - but the 10pm start seems extreme, and having a race on a saturday is weird (I think - 2020 was my first season, maybe they did this for old races in far-away time zones) The teams have a week at home in Europe between Brazil and Las Vegas, so they'll be physically operating on European time before they fly to Vegas. So their bodies will be starting on European time, then flying to Las Vegas where they're expected to operate on days that are 8 hours earlier than their bodies are expecting. But then the race happens at 10pm Vegas time and they're going to be awake until long after midnight on saturday night/sunday morning. It just seems like a weird decision imo. Surely it's not a temperature thing - Yes it's in Nevada, but it's also in November. It won't be particularly hot, and the local sunset is before 5pm so it's not like they're just waiting for darkness for a night race. I guess it's to vaguely preserve EU viewership while also allowing for a Vegas night race, but I just think they could have organised it for a better time.
I find that schedule also extremely weird. You got a couple of slight confusions there, though. The day at Las Vegas is 8h later from a European point of view. Not earlier. That also makes the starting time quite inconvenient for European viewers at 6am on Sunday. But maybe that's the reason to choose the Saturday for the race. That way the European audience can watch the replay at a time they're used to watch the races... And it's still a prime time race for American viewers
I’d be fine with 18 races but that’s about my limit where I’d try to watch them all on the day. That would give us a race very other weekend from mid-March through to the end of November, 14 weeks between seasons and the 4 week summer break. But hey, capitalism and profits. I pare my personal calendar back theses days by simply knowing which races I absolutely want to watch, vs those that I’m really not fussed about. I did enjoy my visit to Monza a few years ago, and the race itself each year, despite the pasting you gave it here, and I would go again (after visits to a few other races though). Sao Paulo, Silverstone, Suzuka and Spa (in no particular order) are my top TV watches.
I think the score miss out the on venue experience. The track at Netherlands is awesome. Very well organised, good viewing angles... Etc. Probably doesn't matter for viewers watching at home though.
For the same reason we got rid of the Russian GP, we should get rid of Chinese, Saudi, Qatari and Azerbaijani GPs. There you have it, 20 races. March 5 Australia March 12 South Africa (replaces Vegas) March 26 Bahrain April 9 USA Austin April 23 Spain May 7 Emilia Romagna May 21 Monaco June 4 USA Miami June 11 Canada June 25 Austria July 9 United Kingdom July 23 Hungary August 27 Belgium September 3 Netherlands September 17 Italy October 1 Japan October 8 Singapore October 22 Abu Dhabi November 5 Mexico November 12 Brazil
The season should finish at the Adelade street circuit. and be 16 races. and i should be 12 again. and Damon should've won that championship. but seriously though, needs to be brought back to 16-18 races.
Having issues with Zandvoort while so many drivers said it is an amazing track lol.... I also dont get why people whine about Las Vegas even BEFORE they raced once there :')
