Welcome to the weekend!

We’d like to give a huge congratulations to our friends at Tedson Motors on receiving an eight car order for their Tedson Daydream!

The order consists of eight Daydream B75 Turbo SLS Special Limited Series, designed and marketed by @hypercarbroker. The collection is dubbed ‘Skittles’ and will feature cars of all different flavours - click here to see some of the specs and congrats again to Goran and the whole team!

Formula 1

Sprint Racing in Brazil!

It was a wet one but Maximum Verstappen got it done, qualifying first at the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace in the Brazilian GP. The session was red flagged and despite the quick turn in conditions, no crazy offs to report - click here to catch up on the action!

PS: This is a Sprint Race weekend meaning we’ve got racing action tomorrow, Saturday, November 4th @ 10am EST!

Next race: Sunday, November 5th @ 12pm EST (Brazilian GP)

Paddock Auctions

Coming Soon

*Team Stradale is re-running this Ferrari 360 Challenge car as we anticipate the launch of our new network partners. It’s tentatively scheduled for early November but this is a moving target based on the arrival of our new network partners.

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Quick Bites

🥳 Now is your chance to race in Fernando Alonso’s sim racing cockpit

💰 What it costs to get to F1 and IndyCar

🤯 Ferrari unveils their 499P Modificata track-day car

News Racers Can Use

Does Las Vegas Really Want F1?

To say that there have been disruptions to Las Vegas in the lead up to their inaugural Grand Prix is an understatement. Traffic chaos, trees chopped down, a local worker’s death, exorbitant hotel room costs, unsold corporate hospitality inventory and now residents of the strip tearing down the film on the pedestrian walkways to prevent views of the track are just some examples of what has been happening. The questions has to be asked, does Las Vegas really want F1?

As this is the first race promoted by Liberty Media and the fact that they have invested so much in physical infrastructure make it highly unlikely that this will be a “one and done” situation, but they will need to approach year two taking in mind the mistakes and missteps that have been made in 2023. F1 officials have insisted that they are still eyeing a return in 2024 and Toto Wolff amongst others think there is a great future for the race but I highly doubt that the image above is the one that Liberty wants to see become a meme.

While everyone involved has indicated they want the race to continue for 10 years, the actual race contract is only for three. If the disruptions caused to business as usual are more than what they are worth, it will be hard to see how the casinos will remain on board in the long term. We shall see how it all plays out, but the real test will be after the 2024 race when everybody has the opportunity to really assess whether the race is a help or a hindrance to Vegas. If it is a hindrance, don’t expect it to go the distance.

News Racers Can Use is written by Mark Boudreau from Motorsport Prospects