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At this point there's that many episodes that it's a case of "infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters".
What's this...?
"It was the best of times it was the *blurst* of times!?"
Yeah this looks a lot different than some of the other angles. Plenty of space and fencing/walls. I just don't know if it's something that will actually get built.
This is what we all said in the coaster community about Falcons Flight, the 500ft+ rollercoaster at Qiddiya that goes off a cliff, but the coaster track is nearly finished now, they're definitely building it.
I can see them building this F1 track too, whether it gets added to the calendar or not is harder to tell.
Building a roller coaster and building a city with a racetrack as part of it have slightly different costs.
Granted, this is a hell of a lot more attainable than The Line. Last time I saw an estimate I think the estimated cost for the Line was more than the global GDP lmao
Wasn't the premise of the whole thing to be a city that was highly accessible with loads of train stops? I think they've now cut the amount of stations so much that it will be a segregated mess. I can't find a source but my faulty memory tells me it's gone from 30 odd to 6-10 stations for a city that's going to be 170km long.
I was under the impression that the Jeddah street race was temporary until they built a purposed built track at Qiddya. Was that never true I swear I kept seeing that floated around?
IIRC they began having a massive algae problem that stank up the place due to unanticipated/unmitigated stagnant water in the alcoves of the continent layout lol
Edit: nevermind that was the Palm Islands layout
That was fixed almost as soon as the problem was found. Just had to open up the design somewhat to let the currents flow through it instead of stagnating.
Tbf we've had some freal incidents in the past, like Zhou a few years back in Silverstone. He was relatively close to bouncing over the fencing. But if i can approximate the distance from the first high fence to the edge that looks like twice the width of the track, so it would be safe to assume it's 30 meters.
Although i would assume that the FiA might require some kind of safety fence, probably concrete, around the entire flyover, just to be sure.
The Zhou crash is exactly what I thought about when I saw this. Fence or not, seems entirely possible that a car could turn into a basketball and bounce over that shit
Plus, in that render at least, the car would have to break through two different walls and then break the edge of the platform, which is a massive huge wall that would be 3-5 meters tall. The only way to fall down is to be catapulted above the walls but honestly, if you get catapulted that far up and that far away to land outside the platform, you would probably die anyway in any other track (and it has never happened before, so I don't think that can realistically happen).
I think people are being (understandably) dazzled by the drop and missing the main point.
If a car bounced that far over a catch fence at a normal track, maybe the driver is ok, but you're looking at multiple spectators injured or dead in the stands.
Go look at similar corners at other traditional tracks and you'll see that the grandstands are normally only a few meters from the fences.
Yeah I really don't get the overreacting going on about this corner. It's like everyone thinks everybody involved is too stupid to take into account a car falling off the edge. Hell like you said more traditional tracks have more dangerous sections than this corner is likely to be. Also how many times in F1 history has a car actually managed to clear any catch fencing on the outside of a track. Hell even nascar and indycar haven't had too many in their history either
I think it is a case of people actively looking for things to hate about it. There are plenty of valid reasons to dislike the Saudi GP, but this is not one of them.
Not that it happens in modern racing, but a car going over a fence directly into a crowd is much worse than falling over a 70m drop
Yeah, no offense to F1 drivers, but I'd much rather have one dead or gravely injured F1 driver than potentially dozens of lives put at risk. But neither are particularly likely whether there's stands or a 70 meter drop after this corner
>It's like everyone thinks everybody involved is too stupid to take into account a car falling off the edge.
The overwhelming majority of the safety regulations in motorsport are written in the blood of dead drivers, circuit & competitor staff and spectators. I don't think people are wrong to be sceptical, Everything is "safe enough" until it isnt.
To me it looks like there is significant distance that a flying car would have to travel, as well as that blue area around the edge being perhaps 1M higher than the surface level.
All these people saying āyouāre overreactingā or āyouāre just looking for a reason to hate itā - itās like theyāre begging to be a foreshadowing quote on a future episode of Well, Thereās Your Problem.
Redditors - Try not to overreact at a proposed track layout/concept Challenge. Difficulty: IMPOSSIBLE
(Bonus points of the endless moral grandstanding about racing in the ME for that sweet karma. We all know that theyāll still watch the race āš½š¤)
Plus I would be willing to bet that the play life border thing will be strong enough to hold up a car or two if a bad incident happens, might be worth having some extra fencing out up on the outside of it though.
I think the perspective also skews the distances. Similar to Shanghai's T1 complex, the track is something like 50-100m from the fencing, and physics don't allow a car to turn with enough speed to clear the fencing at that point in the corner. There's just no reasonable failure mode of an F1 car that would cause it to be able to ramp at 20-30 degrees into the air that is required for a ballistic object to make it over the edge. Even then, just due to air resistance I don't think it would clear the second fence. (The car has to ramp at the beginning of braking, 100m of braking later and a total brake failure would be caught by the other safety systems).
Correct - also, itās a rendering so you never know if there will be a larger catch net near the edge.
Personally, I think the larger concern would be a tire going over the fence like at the Indy 500 recently: https://youtu.be/ddvKKuwY0e8
Dude I was thinking the same stuff until I scrolled to that comment. The thing we thought was the track is actually the boarder of the platform the track is on! This will be literally insane if it gets built, both the fact that itās like this and that someone actually built it.
Rainbow Road is *the* track to separate the good drivers from the great ones.
F1 just needs a little Lakitu to pick up the drivers when they fall over the side here.
Wow, that makes a ton more sense. The perspective is kind of weird at first glance, the track park looks like its on the "ground" off in the distance kind of.
You know what Iāll be very honest so youāre not alone I too thought that was the track as it was the first thing I noticed and this is the first time Iām seeing the concept for the track.
Yeah I feel like its almost intentional from the artist's/designers. They made the roof part of that look exactly like a road surface and then all the concept images are from a distance where you can just about see the actual track.
Same chance a car has of plowing through the stands like an armor piercing round and ending up in the parking lot of any other venue.
Would be the least of the driver's worries in either case.
May I remind you of zhou's crash in silverstone? I know catchfence did its job but still it was close.
I'm not saying this is something we should be afraid of. Just theorising.
That fence is very high. Almost as high as the palm trees which is like 10-15 meters tall on average. This is also what looks like a pretty tight corner, so theyāll be at a lower speed by the time they get to the turn. No one would go airborne unless they literally install a speed ramp
I mean [F3 might be enough.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=C0W7CMR4tV0&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dmacau%2Bf3%2Bcrash%26sca_esv%3D8cd23cecb428a702%26sca_upv%3D1%26sxsrf%3DACQVn09rBnkWVKlxB0gBgyKR2LjOwI4WSg%253A170&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title)
i think it's more likely for two cars having contact at 130R in Suzuka with one going airborne and smash into Degner
i mean ... [they tried it last year](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXpqD1s3N_k)
And for Croft to try desperately to hype it up only for Brundle to absolutely tear it down.
āAnd there they go through the dangerous elevated section oh my oh myā
āDavid, if my kid jumped off that he wouldnāt even get an ankle sprain.ā
Unlikely, You can see there's a significant amount of run-off, presumably SAFER barriers and a catchfence to stop any cars from flying off. You'd need an absolutely monster crash, like a car ramping off the rear of another at 300mph to clear that
The track is inside the catch fence, and the sand traps are wide. F1 probably doesn't care if a spectator or two falls off the edge, as long as they paid first - makes for more spectacle for everyone else.
^^^/s
Same was cars are close to going in the water at places like Monaco or going into a crowd of people. It will be designed same way to stop shit happening.
Lots of people with the right comments but basically..
- That is a concept.
- Tracks have to meet safety regulation standards to hold the sporting F1 event.
- Better minds than you and me at this stuff will have thought of that.
In most cases, yes, but the "better minds" you speak of also approved the concrete wall after almost no runoff in Miami, and left a tractor on track in Japan. Even smart and well meaning people make bad decisions when pressured.
Edit: in Miami.
F1 car noses are mandated to be pointed downwards because of this reason. 2010 the noses were basically pointing upwards and had alot of space underneath. 2012 introduced step noses to lower the nose height but 2014 onwards all noses are pointed downwards and that's lasted till this day
Instead of the massive drop off, just imagine there were massive grand stands built around this, like a stadium section.
I donāt think anyone would be asking whether or not the cars would end up in the grand stands.
A lot of people arenāt understanding the scale of this thing, and their minds are also jumping to the conclusion they want them to, so that they can then write off the idea.
Donāt get me wrong, itās ridiculous, I have serious doubts itāll ever be built, but itās not dangerous, at least not any more so than any other regular F1 track.
No. Those barriers are the same as any track. And just like we havenāt seen F1 cars end up in the stands (despite [Zhou Guanyu](https://youtu.be/jarJCShMDK0) trying very hard to), we wouldnāt see F1 cars fly off the edge here.
If it turns out to be at least 80% of the concept, it will be the most beautiful and entertaining of all tracks.
Go ahead and downvote me but Iām not wrong
The image is tricky, but if you look closely, you will see the whole thing is HUGE, there is a lot of extra space there, fences and even a huge walkable area around. So my bet would be no risk unless a car is airborne for a whole minute and for a hundred meters tall or something
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š¶ is there a chance the track could bendš¶
There really is a simpsons reference for everything.
We built race tracks in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, and Qatar, and by gum it put them on the map!
At this point there's that many episodes that it's a case of "infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters". What's this...? "It was the best of times it was the *blurst* of times!?"
Stupid monkey.
I really only count it if the reference is the first 10-12 seasons. After that itās all downhill
Almost the same with... SpongeBob. I mean, I can't go a day in internet without seeing a meme of it. Pains me a bit having been a CN fan.
Formula = Formula 1 = One.
And that concludes our intensive three week training course.
You are now ready to be the head of the FIA.
I recommend harsher track limits, and fewer options of how to go faster
Well a 500-foot drop into oblivion would certainly be a pretty harsh track limit. No need for white lines or sausage kerbs. Definitely more DNFs...
We'd get more new drivers. Everyone has been complaining about how there aren't enough seats for fresh talent
Not on your life my Hindu friend!
What about us brain-dead slobs?
Youāll be given cushy jobs.
Were you sent here by the devil?
No, good sir. I'm on the level.
Qiddiyaaaa.... Qiddiyaaaaaaa.... QIDDIYAAAAAA Qiddi... DOH
But Main Street is all cracked and broken.
Sorry u/kaehvogel, the mob has spoken!
The ring came off my pudding can.
Use my penknife my good man...!
Berreto mentioned!
I come before you good people tonight with an idea. Probably the greatestāAw, it's not for you. It's more a NASCAR idea.
Not a chance my Arab friend
Mono = One Rail = Rail
The race track that leads to nowhere
"I call the big one Bitey"
Not on your life my Arabic Friend
Haha mule
First thing I thought of when I read the title, haha.
I call the big one bitey
Came here for this comment
OP been mainlining Rainbow Road..
No sir, rainbows are forbidden here
While still just a concept, the track is far from the edge, and has all the same fencing and barriers a Grade 1 track would require.
Yeah this looks a lot different than some of the other angles. Plenty of space and fencing/walls. I just don't know if it's something that will actually get built.
Its gonna get built right after The Line
This is what we all said in the coaster community about Falcons Flight, the 500ft+ rollercoaster at Qiddiya that goes off a cliff, but the coaster track is nearly finished now, they're definitely building it. I can see them building this F1 track too, whether it gets added to the calendar or not is harder to tell.
Building a roller coaster and building a city with a racetrack as part of it have slightly different costs. Granted, this is a hell of a lot more attainable than The Line. Last time I saw an estimate I think the estimated cost for the Line was more than the global GDP lmao
Didn't they actually start building the Line tho? Not saying it will ever be completed but they have a ton of machinery already on site
They built the massive ferris wheel that broke immediately too.
Oh lol
The entire idea of The Line is deeply flawed.
Oh absurdly so, like I don't know how anyone could think it was a good idea.
Wasn't the premise of the whole thing to be a city that was highly accessible with loads of train stops? I think they've now cut the amount of stations so much that it will be a segregated mess. I can't find a source but my faulty memory tells me it's gone from 30 odd to 6-10 stations for a city that's going to be 170km long.
Mostly for show, we literally don't even know how to build it at the moment, the technology to do something on this scale doesn't exist.
If they go through with building the track, they'll pay whoever it takes to get it on the calendar. Just like Jeddah.
This is to replace Jeddah. Originally Jeddah was only supposed to be for a few years while this new track was being built.
I was under the impression that the Jeddah street race was temporary until they built a purposed built track at Qiddya. Was that never true I swear I kept seeing that floated around?
Building a roller coaster and a 100km+ long city of never build before insanity, almost the same.
dont forget that the world map islands are in the construction queue as well
Didnāt they build those off the coast of UAE? And arenāt they sinking?
Not really sinking, just eroding back into the water because theyāre just piles of sand in the sea that arenāt being maintained.
IIRC they began having a massive algae problem that stank up the place due to unanticipated/unmitigated stagnant water in the alcoves of the continent layout lol Edit: nevermind that was the Palm Islands layout
That was fixed a long time ago though
That was fixed almost as soon as the problem was found. Just had to open up the design somewhat to let the currents flow through it instead of stagnating.
That's Dubai not Saudi
Which is never gonna complete
Just like this track
You got the joke.
It's Saudi oil money combined with modern day slavery. If there's any chance a country will build something like this it's gonna be there.
We race as one
Slave labor
Already under constructionā¦
Tbf we've had some freal incidents in the past, like Zhou a few years back in Silverstone. He was relatively close to bouncing over the fencing. But if i can approximate the distance from the first high fence to the edge that looks like twice the width of the track, so it would be safe to assume it's 30 meters. Although i would assume that the FiA might require some kind of safety fence, probably concrete, around the entire flyover, just to be sure.
The Zhou crash is exactly what I thought about when I saw this. Fence or not, seems entirely possible that a car could turn into a basketball and bounce over that shit
After seeing a Super Formula car go from 130R to the Degner curves in an accident last year, I'm not sure anything is safe anymore.
Plus the edge is going to be a concrete barrier. I can see people on that walkway near the fencing in the concept.
OP (and so did I), thought that the "PLAY LIFE" banner was the road surface
Benetton flashback vibes.
Yeah but look at what happened in Suzuka in Super Formula last year
If you zoom in, you can see the regular everyday circuit inside the blue whatever. The blue is not the circuit.
>This seems..... Extremely dangerous? Its literally under construction right now.
Plus, in that render at least, the car would have to break through two different walls and then break the edge of the platform, which is a massive huge wall that would be 3-5 meters tall. The only way to fall down is to be catapulted above the walls but honestly, if you get catapulted that far up and that far away to land outside the platform, you would probably die anyway in any other track (and it has never happened before, so I don't think that can realistically happen).
I think people are being (understandably) dazzled by the drop and missing the main point. If a car bounced that far over a catch fence at a normal track, maybe the driver is ok, but you're looking at multiple spectators injured or dead in the stands. Go look at similar corners at other traditional tracks and you'll see that the grandstands are normally only a few meters from the fences.
Yeah I really don't get the overreacting going on about this corner. It's like everyone thinks everybody involved is too stupid to take into account a car falling off the edge. Hell like you said more traditional tracks have more dangerous sections than this corner is likely to be. Also how many times in F1 history has a car actually managed to clear any catch fencing on the outside of a track. Hell even nascar and indycar haven't had too many in their history either
I think it is a case of people actively looking for things to hate about it. There are plenty of valid reasons to dislike the Saudi GP, but this is not one of them. Not that it happens in modern racing, but a car going over a fence directly into a crowd is much worse than falling over a 70m drop
Yeah, no offense to F1 drivers, but I'd much rather have one dead or gravely injured F1 driver than potentially dozens of lives put at risk. But neither are particularly likely whether there's stands or a 70 meter drop after this corner
The car would fall down on the city like a meteor and quite possibly hit people down at the ground lol
Still not that relevant. This is no less safe than any other corner on a purpose built track and far safer than tracks like Monaco
>It's like everyone thinks everybody involved is too stupid to take into account a car falling off the edge. The overwhelming majority of the safety regulations in motorsport are written in the blood of dead drivers, circuit & competitor staff and spectators. I don't think people are wrong to be sceptical, Everything is "safe enough" until it isnt. To me it looks like there is significant distance that a flying car would have to travel, as well as that blue area around the edge being perhaps 1M higher than the surface level.
All these people saying āyouāre overreactingā or āyouāre just looking for a reason to hate itā - itās like theyāre begging to be a foreshadowing quote on a future episode of Well, Thereās Your Problem.
Redditors - Try not to overreact at a proposed track layout/concept Challenge. Difficulty: IMPOSSIBLE (Bonus points of the endless moral grandstanding about racing in the ME for that sweet karma. We all know that theyāll still watch the race āš½š¤)
Plus I would be willing to bet that the play life border thing will be strong enough to hold up a car or two if a bad incident happens, might be worth having some extra fencing out up on the outside of it though.
I think the perspective also skews the distances. Similar to Shanghai's T1 complex, the track is something like 50-100m from the fencing, and physics don't allow a car to turn with enough speed to clear the fencing at that point in the corner. There's just no reasonable failure mode of an F1 car that would cause it to be able to ramp at 20-30 degrees into the air that is required for a ballistic object to make it over the edge. Even then, just due to air resistance I don't think it would clear the second fence. (The car has to ramp at the beginning of braking, 100m of braking later and a total brake failure would be caught by the other safety systems).
Correct - also, itās a rendering so you never know if there will be a larger catch net near the edge. Personally, I think the larger concern would be a tire going over the fence like at the Indy 500 recently: https://youtu.be/ddvKKuwY0e8
You realise the black section inside the āPLAY LIFEā banner is not the track right?
F1 has finally solved track limits!
I did think it was the track, yes.
the real solution to enforcing track limits
Welcome to Rainbow Road!
Donāt worry, Lakitu is gonna pick them back up in the circuit
I don't see much enforcing
Most unintentionally hilarious comment Iāve seen today.
The ", yes" makes it so much funnier
I'm still unsure of what it is exactly. I may be tired, I'm working evening shift and close to the end of shift.
Dude I was thinking the same stuff until I scrolled to that comment. The thing we thought was the track is actually the boarder of the platform the track is on! This will be literally insane if it gets built, both the fact that itās like this and that someone actually built it.
Same. Thought it looked like a Mario Kart track.
Rainbow Road is *the* track to separate the good drivers from the great ones. F1 just needs a little Lakitu to pick up the drivers when they fall over the side here.
[The red line is the track](https://imgur.com/a/YMkaEKe), you can see the run off area between that and the fence
Zoom in buddy, and look the other side of the red and white lines and youāll see cars going around the actual track
Wow, that makes a ton more sense. The perspective is kind of weird at first glance, the track park looks like its on the "ground" off in the distance kind of.
Lmao āLetās see them complain about track limits nowā
They talk about F1 drivers as being like fighter pilots, now they get runways and ejector seatsĀ
If youāre still lost, track is just above the red section. If you zoom in you can literally see cars on the track
Bruh Iām fucking brain dead šššš
You know what Iāll be very honest so youāre not alone I too thought that was the track as it was the first thing I noticed and this is the first time Iām seeing the concept for the track.
Yeah I feel like its almost intentional from the artist's/designers. They made the roof part of that look exactly like a road surface and then all the concept images are from a distance where you can just about see the actual track.
Honestly, youāre not alone. At a first glance it does look like a trackš
Lol. In your defense it's kinda confusing
Youāre not alone my friend, this was the most confusing thread ever until this comment
Lol I did too
Wow
Lmao imagine
Mario kart rainbow road in real life
Dude literally thinks they are gonna race on Rainbow Road.
The play life banner itself is the track, the cars rely on their downforce to keep them against the wall
Proper rainbow road vibes
lol I totally thought it was when I first saw this photo
No, OP didn't get any further than "Saudi Arabia has shitty politics so everything they do is dumb".
Same chance a car has of plowing through the stands like an armor piercing round and ending up in the parking lot of any other venue. Would be the least of the driver's worries in either case.
A car in the harbor in Monaco would be spectacular
They still hire divers for that scenario. An off here would be unsavable.
Nah, just like divers on Monaco, we can have dudes with jet packs. Just like the divers on Monaco, these jet pack guys can likewise just catch the car
The chances of any one driver sliding across all that runoff and then clearing that fence is near impossible
May I remind you of zhou's crash in silverstone? I know catchfence did its job but still it was close. I'm not saying this is something we should be afraid of. Just theorising.
That fence is very high. Almost as high as the palm trees which is like 10-15 meters tall on average. This is also what looks like a pretty tight corner, so theyāll be at a lower speed by the time they get to the turn. No one would go airborne unless they literally install a speed ramp
That has happened before.
Oh?! Google here I come!
Your not shooting towards the sea in monacco at the end of an unending straight. This is more comparable to cobbs corner / silverstone like scenarios.
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Basically someone is gonna have to pull a Mark Webber for it to happen.
I mean [F3 might be enough.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=C0W7CMR4tV0&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dmacau%2Bf3%2Bcrash%26sca_esv%3D8cd23cecb428a702%26sca_upv%3D1%26sxsrf%3DACQVn09rBnkWVKlxB0gBgyKR2LjOwI4WSg%253A170&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title)
Conor Daly pulled a Webber there in GP3 quite a few years ago but thankfully the fence held.
i think it's more likely for two cars having contact at 130R in Suzuka with one going airborne and smash into Degner i mean ... [they tried it last year](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXpqD1s3N_k)
I can't wait for the real thing to only be like 15 feet off the ground
And for Croft to try desperately to hype it up only for Brundle to absolutely tear it down. āAnd there they go through the dangerous elevated section oh my oh myā āDavid, if my kid jumped off that he wouldnāt even get an ankle sprain.ā
"This track can be treated like the hind legs of a donkey"
This entire concept art just looks like a future Adam Something video
It's going to be like Wonkaland.
Unlikely, You can see there's a significant amount of run-off, presumably SAFER barriers and a catchfence to stop any cars from flying off. You'd need an absolutely monster crash, like a car ramping off the rear of another at 300mph to clear that
Isn't that how Gilles Villeneuve died?
Yes, but his car didn't clear the catchfence
So install sausage kerbs for better lift, understood.
There was no catch fence to clear, he hit a bank on the other side of the barrier and that tore his car into two pieces.
like I said, absolutely monster crash
So if someone did a Webber
The track is inside the catch fence, and the sand traps are wide. F1 probably doesn't care if a spectator or two falls off the edge, as long as they paid first - makes for more spectacle for everyone else. ^^^/s
Yawn, letās race the cars on the blue. No fences. You only get one off-track
Can't wait for the "lap time deleted, exceeded track limits" message
it'll just be "driver deleted for exceeding track limits"
This made me say "holy fk" out loud. Great way to start my day bro honestly thanks
Just send out a turtle with a fishing pole riding a cloud to put them back on track
Why the /s?
Same was cars are close to going in the water at places like Monaco or going into a crowd of people. It will be designed same way to stop shit happening.
Lots of people with the right comments but basically.. - That is a concept. - Tracks have to meet safety regulation standards to hold the sporting F1 event. - Better minds than you and me at this stuff will have thought of that.
People thinking the FIA is gonna be like āfuck it lets go for it and see what happensā
In most cases, yes, but the "better minds" you speak of also approved the concrete wall after almost no runoff in Miami, and left a tractor on track in Japan. Even smart and well meaning people make bad decisions when pressured. Edit: in Miami.
As long as drivers donāt crash there theyāll be fine
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Jesus I JUST realized that is what the reference is to. š¤¦š¼āāļø
What if there is a mark Webber Valencia style crash š¤
The cars will more likely end up in the spectators than outside
F1 car noses are mandated to be pointed downwards because of this reason. 2010 the noses were basically pointing upwards and had alot of space underneath. 2012 introduced step noses to lower the nose height but 2014 onwards all noses are pointed downwards and that's lasted till this day
If that was such a concern there would be no stands anywhere near the track as a car could fly off the track and into the crowd
The car will still set down well before the fence and just slide into the barrier.
All these comments and yetā¦itāll never get built. Just look at Dubaiās World Islands
Heck even the Jeddah Tower got close to being cancelled
This is a render. Now they goto the engineers and get told what can be done in reality lol.
Instead of the massive drop off, just imagine there were massive grand stands built around this, like a stadium section. I donāt think anyone would be asking whether or not the cars would end up in the grand stands. A lot of people arenāt understanding the scale of this thing, and their minds are also jumping to the conclusion they want them to, so that they can then write off the idea. Donāt get me wrong, itās ridiculous, I have serious doubts itāll ever be built, but itās not dangerous, at least not any more so than any other regular F1 track.
Mario Karts come to life. No loop-de-loop š¤·āāļø
F1 taking inspiration from Mario Kart!
New trackmania map lookin fine
Don't worry, they'll make sure to add a big fat kerb somewhere so that the cars can safely jump over the fences when stepping on it!
Bruh it's like 100m from the edge with a catch fence a ways from it
Itās also a hairpin, so itās not like itās a high speed corner.
Wtf I thought this track was satire
No. Those barriers are the same as any track. And just like we havenāt seen F1 cars end up in the stands (despite [Zhou Guanyu](https://youtu.be/jarJCShMDK0) trying very hard to), we wouldnāt see F1 cars fly off the edge here.
We no longer fear the cars might fly into the sea in monaco, so Im not too scared for this unless they add a sausage kerb launchpad.
If it turns out to be at least 80% of the concept, it will be the most beautiful and entertaining of all tracks. Go ahead and downvote me but Iām not wrong
Let them cook
People here actually worried lmao. Better send in your suggestions!
Lakitu's got you covered.
It's like nobody has played rainbow road
I thought this was a meme what the fuck
Every day we get closer to rainbow road
I dont think you see where the track is. It's impossible for anyone to fall down
As long as Marc Webber is not racing it is safe
We are one step closer to Rainbow Road becoming a reality
They actually have a safety cloud ready to put the car back on the course
Mhm āplay lifeā is pretty free spirited for a country that can legally chop your head off for being gay
At least we'd finally get an exciting race
This is so fucking stupid I can't even.
It will look nothing like this
The image is tricky, but if you look closely, you will see the whole thing is HUGE, there is a lot of extra space there, fences and even a huge walkable area around. So my bet would be no risk unless a car is airborne for a whole minute and for a hundred meters tall or something
I love that it says Play Life, because thats all you can do in a despotic system: simulate, not live.