A class action lawsuit was filed Friday against the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix, tied to fans being removed from Thursday’s practice session before a delayed practice round resumed.
A class action lawsuit has been filed against the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix in relation to fans being forced to leave Thursday’s practice session after an hourslong delay.
Dimopoulos Law Firm and co-counsel JK Legal & Consulting filed the suit Friday in Nevada District Court on behalf of 35,000 fans who purchased tickets to Thursday’s practice run, the legal firms announced Saturday.
Just nine minutes after Thursday’s’s practice session began, a water valve cover came loose and damaged multiple F1 drivers’ vehicles. That led to a 2 ½ hour delay, with a 90-minute second practice session beginning at 2:30 a.m. Friday.
Fans were forced by police and security officers to leave at 1:30 a.m. Friday and weren’t able to watch the session.
The defendants named in the lawsuit are Liberty Media Corporation, doing business as Formula One Heineken Silver Las Vegas Grand Prix and TAB Contractors, Inc. The lawsuit alleges breach of contract, negligence and deceptive trade practices against the defendants.
“We will vindicate the rights of the fans that traveled great distances and paid small fortunes to attend, but were deprived of the experience,” Dimopoulos Law Firm owner and lead attorney Steve Dimopoulos said in a statement.
Sorry, but this is a standing joke about the US in more or less any other country. That they'll sue for just about anything. It's always the classics like cooking your cat in the microwave or spilling hot coffee on your lap, but this one should be added to the list..
I'd be surprised if F1 haven't included stuff like this in their terms, especially after the rain race at SPA a few years back.
How is being kicked out of an event you paid for because of the event providers’ own incompetence in any way analogous to self inflicted idiocy like putting a pet in the microwave? 2. Look up the scalding hot coffee lawsuit. The individual suffered serious burns. It’s not the joke it has been reduced to.
The coffee one is actually a legitimate thing that happened where a store served a boiling coffee that was way too hot and the customer suffered burns, so of course she sued.
The coffee that was served so hot that McD was warned and fined multiple times prior and that, when spilled, melted and fused the woman’s vulva together? Man I can’t imagine why they would have been sued over that.
The coffee incident left the woman with horrendous 3rd degree burns that required hospitalization because the coffee was served way hotter than it is ever supposed to be. The photos are harrowing. What part of that makes it a dumb or unreasonable thing to sue over?
This race is absolutely crafted for Asia and Middle East audiences. No one in Europe will wake up on a Sunday at u am for this race if you have a dvr or replay service from your provider.
People In the US can literally ignore this as there's zero drama on who will win the season nor a glimpse of non dominance.
Meh even the circuit looks like an upside down pig.
I really get tired of Europeans whining about a handful of morning (not even that early) races when vast portions of the world have to deal with the inconvenient times of the European races.
Suck it up, if you don’t want to wake up then don’t. I wake up for 6am races most of the calendar
I really don't get whats so bad about a 6AM race, if I did watch the races live I'd actually be more likely to be able to watch one at 6AM rather than in the middle of the day.
You contradict yourself. You are saying it's for ME and Asia audiences because of the timeslot, and right after that state that US viewers (for whom the timeslot is comfortable) will ignore it due to lack of interest. So what are the European, ME, and Asian viewers are interested in?
I hear the phrase "class action lawsuit" mentioned on the internet all the time, does it actually mean anything at this early point or is it just some chancers trying their luck? Basically is there any point in paying this story any attention unless it goes to court?
It is just the concept of the proceeding and one of the things, where i consider the US justice system to be better than many European systems. It is a "class action", because there is many people, where both the claim and the conditions are the same. So it makes sense to make one suit for everyone instead of an individual suit every time, as the decision should be the same among all suits.
It does not mean, that it is more severe or not. If there wouldn't be class action, imagine the headline "35.000 civil suits opened against F1 Las Vegas Grand prix."
Thanks! I am aware of the concept and it does seem like a useful tool, but my point was more: is the opening of the lawsuit actually news, or do they usually go nowhere? Or in other words should we wait until it actually gets to court before reporting on it?
I am curious, how many fans were still there at 1:30? At one point the tv presenting showed people being asked to leave and there wasn’t a stack of people left several hours after p1 was cancelled. Made me wonder whether if they were incapable of keeping all stadiums staffed, could they have funnelled the remaining people, if not too many, to the main grandstand (or say two) and closed all the others.
I do feel for the people but, especially those that may have only had tickets to day 1. Even those with 3 days missed out, wasted a day off work, etc, as a result.
It happens though…Spa 2021 being another similar situation where the crowd wasn’t necessarily ejected, but they didn’t see what they’d come for either.