F1 2023 - Round 6: Emilia-Romagna

Flying over on Thursday as things stand, but the weather isn't looking good at all (Red weather warnings this week).

Bring a jacket!

I wasn’t worried until I saw the news they’d evacuated the track earlier today. The pictures from the area look awful, and while it looks like the severity of the rain will ease, we’ve seen the FIA be very risk adverse when it comes to rain and putting drivers in harms way, and I personally do want another Belgium Grand Prix where they get token laps in to tick the box.

Well, this was meant to be the first F1 race I attended. Looking less likely now. Hope everyone in the area is safe.

All reports I've seen so far suggest a few towns around Imola are badly flooded, with some of the main roads and train lines closed. Definitely not something you want to add a major sporting event in on top of.

I wonder if they could move the race to either Monza or Mugello, given that they have a few days notice. Would probably have to limit it to 1 practice session, and possibly Sunday morning qualifying, but could be doable.

Sorry to hear you're missing it. Must be disappointing but you rightly point out the broader context.

They probaby need all kinds of planning to host a race. Imagine the safety checks they'd need to do on the track. They'd have no time to fix any issues if they found them. I imagine they'd need months of notice rather than days.

But fans would surely be out of the question so there's no incentive for a track to host if they can't make any money.

Hard to see it going ahead to be honest. 3 people have died so far and there’s significant flooding in a lot of the Emilia Romagna region, power cuts, roads washed out etc. Imola doesn’t seem as bad as other areas within the region but the river a few metres from the track is a problem with more rain forecast.

Considering the amount of resources needed to host a GP in terms of emergency personnel and all the stewards, who are presumably from the local area, not to mention the logistics of getting hundreds of thousands of spectators to and from the track over 3 days, I don’t think it’ll happen but I could be wrong. Maybe a 2020 style race with no spectators and just the essential personnel would be more feasible?

The F2 paddock is already flooded, there are pictures on the F1 Reddit. Only a foot or so of standing water but still not great.

Race called off

Absolutely the right decision. Remains to be seen now if that's Imola gone for the year or if they'll try reschedule it later in the year. Heard mention of the 4-6th of August on Reddit, which seems to be part of the summer break.

At least it was a timely decision, well done for once!

That's a shame, but 100% the right decision.

Absolutely the correct call. It’s a shame but it’s obvious that it needed to be called off. Fair play to them for the quick decision on it.

Good to see F1 make the right call with no fcuking around for once, well done. It’s a shame but there’s other racing, 24hrs of the Nurburgring and Indy 500 qualifying so all is not lost.

Right decision and only possible decision really given the circumstances. They say it may be rearranged but I had a look at the calendar and there isn't a single weekend available that wouldn't either create a quadruple header or a multi-continent triple header, unless they cut into the summer break but hard to see that being agreed.

the right call when you see the pictures from yesterday. F1 is important to us as fans but it’s does have a bar where it’s importance doesn’t go above and safety of others in an area that was very hard hit is one area.

Absolutely 100% the right call by F1 on this one.

Credit to Yuki here.

They are also going to stream the 2021 Emilia-Romagna at 8pm.