[Official] Rate the Grand Prix: United States Grand Prix 2015

[Aysedasi]

9. Enjoyed it

[TrapezeArtist]

I gave it 9, but on reflection perhaps I was a little over-generous. It's an ugly-looking track, even if it's challenging to the drivers. (What idiot decided on painting those garish colours all over the place?) And the "safety" (hah!) car spoilt things a bit. Again, why do we have the virtual safety car and still bring out the unvirtual one?

[JeremySmith]

Originally Posted by chillibowl

Yep an easy 10 from me as well.

Would like to add a couple of points if I could because of how the circus handled the rain delay the day before. For the first time maybe ever they tore down the wall that separates them from the fans.

For a lot of reasons, this was a special weekend.

We are a very friendly bunch here in Austin, we appreciate and love our Grand Prix

[gert]

Originally Posted by chillibowl

seriously though, given the conditions all weekend at COTA, i think they did a great job clearing up incidents and having shorter than normal SC periods.

16 of the 56 laps were run under Safety Car (virtual or physical), that's 28.5%

Cleaning up Ericsson's Sauber took 6 laps. Especially this one took waaay to long.

[chillibowl]

on a dry track i would agree thats a lot of SC laps. on a wet to drying track, 16 laps over 3 incidents i dont think is excessive. to each their own of course but i dont feel like the safety car periods took away from this race.

then again im a LH fan and after failing to pit during the Hulk SC period, i dont think LH would have found himself behind Nico prior to Nico's off it he didnt have the opportunity to pit after Kvyat's shunt. i guess i welcomed that SC so im biased

[JeremySmith]

Originally Posted by alfettafan

Absolutely average I thought, not a nice track and far too many virtual and real safety car periods - why does it take so long to clear debris, remove a car to a safe area, get back to racing with the backmarkers having to do a full lap - it is a farce. At least with NASCAR they clear the problems quickly, get back to racing quickly - Indycar drivers, last time I watched it are able to do rolling restarts, all too often F1 drivers are hopeless in comparison at restarts.

Very positive overview .....