Yeah this one is a completely new financial model with F1 themselves investing in this race, rather than venues paying to host.

The weather/time of year and time of race event is just crazy for an F1 race. Feels like carnage waiting to happen with cold breaks and tyres, long fast straights and no way to heat the components for grip.

I had hoped this could reward those teams normally too hard on their tyres but the track looked like it was slippery as anything. The safety car lap just screamed as you can hear the wheel spin from the tyres as they try to put the power down.

Potentially could be quite processional with cars just doing loops like a train in the cold on a narrow track.

Do wonder how they’ll safely secure those covers if it’s the actual frame lifting out from the fresh asphalt surface. Might need to unwell the lids and work to attach the frames more securely down below, then reweld the lids back on. That all sounds time consuming when the show is on a tight timeframe and is about to start.