{"id":9765,"date":"2023-11-17T17:52:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/9765\/ricciardo-questions-f1s-due-diligence\/"},"modified":"2023-11-17T17:52:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:52:36","slug":"ricciardo-questions-f1s-due-diligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=9765","title":{"rendered":"Ricciardo questions F1&#8217;s due diligence over Vegas track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ricciardo questions F1&#8217;s due diligence over Vegas track\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Laurence Edmondson, F1 editor<span class=\"timestamp \">November 17, 2023, 2:12 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\">Close<\/p>\n<ul>\u2022 Joined ESPN in 2009<br \/>\u2022 F1 journalist accredited by the FIA \u200b\u200bsince 2011<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Daniel Ricciardo said it was fair to question whether Formula 1&#8217;s due diligence on Las Vegas circuit safety had gone far enough after Carlos Sainz&#8217;s Ferrari was destroyed by a loose drain cover during Friday&#8217;s opening practice session.<\/p>\n<p>Initial practice lasted just eight minutes before the drain cover was lifted by Sainz&#8217;s car as it drove over it, causing significant damage to the Ferrari&#8217;s underside and severing its powertrain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Unlapped: How to listen or watch the new ESPN F1 show, episode archives, and more<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteban Ocon&#8217;s Alpine also hit the drain cover and needed a replacement chassis.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the opening session was canceled while the second trials were delayed by two and a half hours and extended from 60 minutes to 90 minutes, meaning they finished at 4 a.m. local time .<\/p>\n<p>Hype around the Las Vegas Grand Prix has reached an unprecedented level in recent weeks, culminating with a lavish opening ceremony on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Daniel Ricciardo has criticized the organization of the opening practice session in Las Vegas. <cite>Jared C. Tilton\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>After Thursday&#8217;s test session, Ricciardo was asked if F1 had prioritized spectacle over the safety of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a good question,\u201d he said.  \u201cWe say, yes, it\u2019s late, but two cars were destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn top of that there is a financial issue for the teams, which is a big problem for them, but then you brought up the biggest problem, which is security.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So luckily Carlos is okay, but these things could be bigger &#8211; when I say bigger, I mean bigger consequences. I don&#8217;t know, I think it&#8217;s easy to say we&#8217;ve had some opening ceremonies and we focused on other things and did their \u201cDue diligence on the track?  But with everything that happened today, you might ask yourself questions like: Did they do enough?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously I can&#8217;t avoid it, it&#8217;s a security issue, and we&#8217;re here late, but I hope security is something they take pretty seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He [loose drain covers] This happened in Monaco and Baku as well, it&#8217;s obviously a street circuit thing, but I feel like permanent circuits have certain criteria or whatever and a lot of boxes to check and I have the impression that urban circuits need a few more.  It\u2019s difficult when it\u2019s open to the public, but obviously they have to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Due to a lack of security personnel working late at night, fans were asked to leave the circuit an hour before the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/start\/\"   title=\"start\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">start<\/a> of the delayed second session, meaning cars drove around the track past empty grandstands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing, yeah,\u201d Ricciardo added.  &#8220;If we hadn&#8217;t done FP2 it probably would have been scrapped and we would have gone to FP3, so at least that way the fans got to watch it on TV. I&#8217;m trying to be positive!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s obviously a difficult situation and I don&#8217;t want to make fun of the sport, it&#8217;s the first time here, it&#8217;s a huge project and things unfortunately happened. I know no one wanted it but I guess they did.&#8221; They did the best they could with what they had.  I know it&#8217;s late and everyone is probably a little grumpy, but at least we got in a little running.  &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricciardo questions F1&#8217;s due diligence over Vegas track\u060c Laurence Edmondson, F1 editorNovember 17, 2023, 2:12 p.m. Close \u2022 Joined ESPN in 2009\u2022 F1 journalist accredited by the FIA \u200b\u200bsince 2011 Daniel Ricciardo said it was fair to question whether Formula 1&#8217;s due diligence on Las Vegas circuit safety had gone far enough after Carlos Sainz&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5784,3553,4600,1859,2653,3115,1502],"class_list":["post-9765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-diligence","tag-due","tag-f1s","tag-questions","tag-ricciardo","tag-track","tag-vegas"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9767,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765\/revisions\/9767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}