Miami F1 Grand Prix this weekend

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Since it is a crappy wet weekend, there is the Miami F1 race on tomorrow at 330 pm on ABC. There is a pre-show from 2-330 same channel.

Practice 3 is on today at 1255pm on ESWHD (channel 852 on Comcast)
Qualifying today at 355pm on ESPNHD (channel 850 on Comcast)

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And there will be a new US team coming to F1 in 2024, Andretti racing is putting together a team for F1. Mario Andretti was interviewed in Practice 2 session where he discussed it. Awesome!

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Did anyone hear if Lewis removed his jewelry or did the FIA acquiesce and let him keep it on? I get why there are rules for kid's sports but this seems like like a pretty silly thing to enforce for these guys.

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He removed his earrings but has a 2 race period to remove his nose stud as it is a welded one and he can't just take it off, it has to be removed by someone who knows what they are doing! The whole thing is stupid IMO. At the speeds they travel, when they crash, fire is a bigger risk than jewelry hurting them from an impact of some sort.

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There hasn't been a fire only related death in F1 in ages? Now that refueling is gone, all fires are secondary results from accidents. There are WAY more accidents than fires.

Jewlery can inhibit getting an MRI. When seconds count, do you want then to have to cut off your welded nose stud? EMT/docs don't know if its the correct grate titanium. If your face is mangled, they may not know its still there, miss it, then you get further f-ed up during a MRI when it comes loose or burns you (though should do an xray first to find metal. Which they have to then dig out.) I doubt an earring or a nose stud would hurt anyone DURING an accident but the rule is against jewlery. It does not distinguish type. I could see someone being injured by a necklace (strangulation, laceration while being torn off, heat transfer during a fire, etc.) Plenty of folks have been hurt by rings. Its a simple rule and common sense. Hamilton is just being an ass now that they've decided to enforce the rule better.