No change to Las Vegas GP start time for 2024 after complaints · RaceFans

The Las Vegas Grand Prix will maintain its late 10pm begin time for its second operating this yr, regardless of complaints from groups and others in F1 over the challenges introduced by its schedule.

The FIA has confirmed the beginning occasions for all 24 grands prix on the 2024 F1 calendar. The overwhelming majority are unchanged, although the beginning time for the Miami Grand Prix has been put again by half an hour.

The session occasions for the six dash occasions on the calendar – at Shanghai, Miami, Purple Bull Ring, Circuit of the Americas, Interlagos and Losail – are but to be confirmed. The timings for the follow and qualifying periods in Las Vegas have additionally not been set, as F1 explores methods to enhance the race’s schedule.

F1’s longest-ever calendar has already provoked considerations from groups and drivers concerning the calls for positioned upon employees. The timings of the brand new Las Vegas Grand Prix proved particularly punishing final yr.

With a purpose to permit the roads which make up the Las Vegas Strip Circuit to be opened to daytime visitors, F1 was confined to utilizing the monitor solely after dusk. This meant second follow and qualifying had been scheduled to start out at midnight.

The schedule needed to be adjusted after the primary follow session was deserted when a water valve cowl broken two vehicles. The second follow session didn’t end till 4am.

F1 is beneath strain to search out methods to ease the pressure of the Las Vegas schedule this yr when the occasion is the primary of three on consecutive weekends. The next spherical takes place in Qatar, which means F1 employees can even have to regulate to an 11-hour distinction in time zones.

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Following final yr’s race Purple Bull workforce principal Christian Horner stated the schedule was the primary level F1 wanted to deal with earlier than its return. “It’s been a brutal weekend for everybody behind the scenes and I feel we have to have a look at how we will enhance that for the long run.”

The 10pm Saturday begin time for the Las Vegas race means it’ll happen at 7am for viewers in western Europe, 6am for these in Britain and 1am within the east value of the USA.

Though most race begin occasions are unchanged for the brand new season, adjustments in race dates imply followers in some elements of the world should modify their viewing plans in comparison with final yr. For followers in Britain, the Australian Grand Prix will begin at 4am as an alternative of 6am, partly as a consequence of when the adjustments in daylight financial savings time fall this yr.

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