I prefer Magny-Cour over Las Vegas or Miami anytime. Like @ScarDuck14 said, it's stupid and sad to see new street circuits into the calendar when we have so many historic and purpose built race tracks which are not included. I know only money matters, but like Verstappen said in some interview, at some point it's beyond "just money" and have to choose the right thing (in this case proper and historic race tracks).
@Cpayne32 @ScarDuck14 Yeah Monaco doesn't offer too much, but offers more than Jeddah, watching last night race, after the safety car i was almost naping, it was that boring. I would bring back into the calendar Magny-Cour, Malayzia, at least one track from Germany, Jerez maybe even Kyalami in a second and take off tracks like Jeddah, Miami or Las Vegas, the last one will be another boring street race with 3 corners...
I love Magny Cours, more than 20 years ago one of my favourite tracks, sweet remembers of WR ❤️
Whereas I totally agre with you guys regarding the classics tracks plus some that aren't classics but still deliver great races I'm afraid that won't ever happen again.
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@Cpayne32Definetly they should listen to the fans.
Quoting spefically this part of the discussion, in my point of view, F1 is listening to the money. During the brazilian broadcast this sunday was speculated tha Saudi could receive a 2nd race each season, this one to be held in Riyadh, due to Aramco being its main sponsor. Also, with F1 willing to enter the US market at any cost, we might expect less of the classic european tracks that we are used to.
Do I like it? No.
Do I understand it? Yes. At the end of the day it's business.
I have nothing against helding races in middle-east and USA but I feel like it's misbalanced when we think of tradicional places and markets for motorsport. This year we'll have 4 races in middle-east (Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi) and 3 in USA (Miami, COTA and Vegas) almost 1/3 of the calender goes to places where F1 wants to be but where the majority of the fan base isn't.
Or I am just old enough to look at it and don't recognize it as F1 I grew up watching.
@Cpayne32And yet, F1 is bigger than ever.
How hard is to find the perfect balance - again, I'm not saying they are wrong, I can get them. It just isn't familiar.
