August 18, 2025 • 36 mins
F1 is hot on the current topics on TCOE! and here to take more of a in depth look at the sport is No Droids! Thanks for listening!!
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Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Core of
Entertainment hosted by me, The OC.
This is an audio only podcast available on Apple and available
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the AM. Thank you so much for making
this platform a part of your day.
Thanking so much to the audienceout there for making me a part
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of your day. And today is Monday, a very,
very special day. We're going to get the week off
the right way. I don't know how many fanatical
sports fans we have have out there.
I know there's a large portion of listeners that is a fan of
F1. Now, for those of you out there,
F1 is a sport that's been aroundfor years, a generational thing
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that's been around for years. A lot of people are into it, a
lot of people have heard of it, but of late it is something that
has taken the world by storm. That could be the teams, that
could be the flashy cars, that could be the engineering, that
could be the money behind it, orthe reach of a worldwide
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phenomenon that the sport has slowly become.
A lot of it credits Netflix Drive to Survive.
For sure. I have someone in the studio
that the audience, early days audience, will be familiar with.
A gentleman by the name of No Droids, who is a big fan of Star
Wars, a big fan of anime, and isalso responsible for myself and
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a lot of other people out there out here in 5280 in our little
circle away from the mic, away from the studio that is
responsible for getting people involved with F1, trying to
understand it, trying to see what resonates so hard with the
sport in today's ever changing, fast-paced social media world.
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And so without further ado, No Droids.
What's going on, buddy? How are you?
I'm doing great, man. So the first thing you said when
you walk through the door was have you heard about all the
stuff going on in F1? And my response was no.
So let's let's touch on that andthen let's kind of delve into
what it is about F1 that got youinto it that resonates so
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differently with you. So First off, set the stage
because every podcast is somebody's first podcast.
And for a lot of people out there, they might not know what
F1 is. So set the stage of the drama
going on. Well, basically Formula One is
considered the pinnacle of motorsport and racing, and
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mostly because it has the most money, the most engineering, the
best tech. And it's just it's bigger than
all the others types of racing for the most part, like GT and
endurance racing, NASCAR racing rally, because they're all very
different and they'll have different goals and they
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function very differently. But, and I think the main thing
that draws people into Formula One, at least in America now,
because of, as you said, Drive to Survive is, yeah, it's just
very different than the NASCAR driving a circle.
And there's rules and the point system.
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And so it's just, I think it's very intriguing.
And there's also the the money, the drivers, because they're
always in the spotlight everything they do.
So it's like you pretty much know their entire lives and
where they are and what they're doing and hence the drama right
now. One of the best generationally
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drivers who has been a Red Bull for I think it was like it's
been like 10 years ish now. He there's a lot of rumors going
around that he might leave Red Bull and go to Mercedes, which
haven't been the best team in recent years, but we're the
greatest team for a solid 6 yearspan.
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And it's just big news because it's always been a rumor but
that's all it's ever been was just a rumor.
However, nowadays the CEO for Red Bull just I don't know if he
got fired, if he left willingly,but he is no longer there.
Christian Horner and normally also Mercedes main driver George
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Russell now normally always getshis contract renewal announced
at the the British Silverstone race every year.
But it didn't happen this year. And they have a very promising
rookie Kim Antonelli this year as well.
So the thing the rumor is with Max going there is because of
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the lack of renewing that contract, Max also has been
talking to the CEO for Mercedes.And so it's just in the air that
it actually could be a possibility since the CEO left,
the Red Bull CEO left. So it's just it's seeming more
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plausible this year compared to the past years.
Now, is that a result of how much money is involved with
this? Because it seems to me watching
Drive to Survive and the races that I've watched and you kind
of being the, the, the focus point of like, hey, you really
should check this out. It's so fascinating.
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It's so and then for years and years, it's just hearing like
hearing the rumors, hearing the,the noise that is F1.
It's been rumbling for a while. Do you think that that is what's
so captivating about it is because it's kind of treated
more like a, I want to say it's like a combat sport because it
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is an engineering team. But the drivers themselves are
in the spotlight quite a bit. And aside from them being in the
spotlight, it's who is going with what team, whether that's
Lewis going to Ferrari, whether that's Max staying where he's
at, whether, you know, certain moves are being made, who's in
control of the money, How many races can they afford to lose?
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How many points can they afford to lose?
How many points can they gain? Where do you think all that,
like stems from? Why is that so interesting to
people? Why do you think?
I think it's very interesting topeople because a lot of other
racing platforms, all the cars are the same, they just look
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different. So under the hood they're the
exact same, same spec everything.
So and then at that sense, it's just the driver and how good
they are. Right.
To which there's the occasional time in F1 that happens, but not
every car is the same. And so I think that's also part
of it is you can have a really good driver and a bad car.
Like Max Verstappen right now, Red Bull's not very good, but he
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still is managing to get top 10sconsistently and get points.
So I think there's just the added aspect of it's not just
the driver, it's also the teams themselves and how they build
the car. Because McLaren and the current
constructors team world champions right now, even last
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year when they won the first half of the year, they were like
fourth. They were not doing good.
And years before they were always dead last.
And then they just came out of nowhere.
Some mechanic, their mechanics just figured it out and made a
beast of a car. And so there's just like there's
times like that where it can happen or another one, this this
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past British Silverstone race, one of the worst teams this
year, one of their drivers managed to get on the podium.
And yes, there was luck involvedwith crashes and safety cars
because it was a rainy race. It was chaotic.
But he'd managed to get third and he's in the ninth best car
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out of 10. So it's just there, there's
always can be craziness and eventhis year as well, McLaren is
far ahead of everybody else. Why?
Why do you think they are so farahead?
Why do you think that McLaren stands above a lot of other
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teams? Because for me, what gravitated
me into F1, You're responsible for this is I started going down
the rabbit hole. We've talked away from the
studio and I've started reading.And what really captured my
imagination was that there is a team.
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There is a team of day in, day out, all day, all night, whether
it's the pit crews, whether it'sthe techs, whether it's the
mechanics, whether it's the driver or the owner.
So many people are involved to accomplish one goal.
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And I found that very, very fascinating that it's not just,
you know, the guy behind the wheel, it's who's in charge of
the engineering behind the, the overall design, the lighter
version of a fin, the the engineering behind the wheels,
the engineering behind all the stuff that makes the car go.
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And that to me was just super fascinating because one of my
personal teams that I followed for a minute there was Mercedes,
Mercedes toe. I mean, let's that he's had said
a few things through drive to survive.
That really resonated with me. Like it's not just me, it's
thousands of people that make this accomplish that accomplish
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what it is we're trying to do. And I think that that to me is
like far and away the most fascinating part of it, you
know? And of course, you have
platforms nowadays in social media and streaming where you
can see all of that. You don't just see the dramatic
races. You don't just see the crazy
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tracks and the weather conditions.
And oh, they're in Abu Dhabi now.
They're in Spain now. They're in China now, they're in
Australia. Oh, now they're in Vegas now.
It's like that part is interesting enough, but what
happens behind the scenes was truly captivating to me.
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When you start watching these races and when you started
following these races, aside from the drivers and the cars
with McLaren, why does that resonate or how does that
resonate with you? What do you mean?
You could have gone with Ferrari, you could have gone
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with Red Bull, you could have gone because Mercedes.
For me, the top dog, immediatelyshowed humility.
Now I could be eating some crow.I don't know the guy personally,
I'm working without all the information here, but he said
something that really resonated with me.
Now, that could be because a camera was in front of him and
he wanted to say what sounded good.
And it's easy to talk a very positive game when Lewis
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Hamilton is your driver and you're you have some of the best
engineers in the world. But why McLaren for you?
I'm always a sucker for the under underdog story and so when
I first started watching dread to survive and like getting into
the sport and everything yeah, obviously Mercedes top dog.
You're like yes, and I honestly like all the teams besides Red
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Bull. But the draw to McLaren was
funny enough because I Lando Norris, McLaren's number one
driver air quotes on that. He has a YouTube channel in like
this YouTube group and I've always watched him and that's
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what led me into actually getting into F1 was because he's
like, oh, I'm a Formula One driver.
So I just, I liked him and I also liked Mercedes.
And then I just based on just the I like an underdog story, I
just made McLaren my favorite and Mercedes is my second
favorite. And I like all the other teams
too. They're all great.
And I like all of their CEOs or drivers like.
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It's a lot of lot of money, a lot of money.
Oh, I know. I mean, if you really want to
show how much like money driven the sport is, you can look at
Aston Martin because the owner of that team paid for his son to
pretty much race for him. And that's a big one that he the
only reason he's there is because his dad was.
The team. So it's it's kind of like Harry
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Potter vibes, yes. Like where Draco Malfoy's dad
kind of bought all the teams, you know, the critics team, the
all the brooms and stuff. Talk about nerdy, right?
Yeah, that's a first for me. God, you ever say something
that's so nerdy? You even like, oh God, that
didn't sound right at all. Yeah, comparing F1 to Harry
Potter. Anyway, just kidding.
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Anyway, so when it comes to the racing as a whole and like the
drivers going from team to team,I would imagine as far as like
learning a new car, you know, that's something that you and I
have talked about away from here, away from the mikes of why
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do you think he's he's struggling.
Maybe this racer, XY and Z, he'sstruggling with this car, but he
was so good with this team. Do you think that falls more to
the relationship and the style of the car?
Why It's hard for someone like aLewis Hamilton to go from
Mercedes to Ferrari and then it's a new car.
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How does that resonate? Yeah, so a good example of that
not being Ferrari is Red Bull. Red Bulls, both of their cars
are built for Max Verstappen. So that second driver, it's like
it's considered a curse to be the second driver at Red Bull
because other teams, they build a good car that's balanced and
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then they will spec it out to each driver in the way they
want. But with Red Bull, both cars are
just Max. So that second driver just has
to adjust to however Max likes his car.
And then there's also different things like Ferrari has always
been more of a straight line speed be the fastest, whereas
when he was at Mercedes like theW 11 many years ago was
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considered the car that could turn corners into straits
because of how aerodynamically sound it was and how fast it
could go into corners. Now correct me if I'm wrong,
didn't Mercedes get into some hot water because of that with
the fins and everything? Yeah, yeah.
Because because of the rules at the time, they with Formula One,
there's always new regulations every, I want to say four or six
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years that change how the cars can be even down to a millimeter
width on a wing. And but then with that given
information, the mechanics can mess around and do stuff.
And so yes, sometimes they will do something that falls out of
the the lines. And even still when they do
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that, they'll sometimes go out of the lines.
But it's also not said that you can't do it.
And So what you're talking aboutwith those fins, they did it and
it didn't comply, but it also did not comply.
It didn't break the rules. Exactly.
It didn't break the rules, but it was like it was.
It was on ice. It was kind of like looking in
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the glass. Looking at right up to the
glass, yes. Not breaking the glass.
Yeah. And then so when that happens,
the FAA who runs the racing and the rules and they make sure
like everything's how it needs to be.
They when something like that happens, they will personally
like look it out, go through allthe papers of the regulations,
figure it out, and then they'll decide yes or no.
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And so in that instance, they were like, they're not breaking
the rules. Like another one with Mercedes
is when they did the wheel that they could like push in to be
like give extra gas and pull out.
And that whole thing, that was also another one where it was
like, kind of like, is that breaking the rules or not?
And then the FAA said that they're fine.
Really. Yeah.
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See that to me is where I I finda lot of that to be so unique
that there would be a rule book to spawn like what are they
doing? How are they so good?
And that to me, I think is what I mean that's kind of what sold
me on a lot of it. You know, we had talked away
from it and said, oh, man, to hear what happened with Red
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Bull. And I'm like the drink.
And you're like, no, no F1. I'm like, oh, oh, they have an
F1 team. And here I am like, I'm my
back's getting hairier by the minute.
I'm already in ape, you know, And now I feel like, OK, well,
you know, there was no record scratch.
Like, let me school you, man. Let me school you, old man.
But it was more in line with like, this is a rule.
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And not only is it a rule, but other teams can like challenge
that rule, that ruling of like, OK, where did they, where did
this come from? How are they accomplishing this?
What are they doing that's so different?
You know when you see F1 as a sport, when you see F1 as an
organization and it's like worldwide, do you ever see this
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is something that is in the infant stages to the new
generation that it could get even bigger than what it is
right now? I think for sure, especially
since now North America is now actually specifically the States
is now actually tuning in thanksto the Direct Survive show.
And so I've just based from thatalone, there's going to be way
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more fans and obviously there's plenty of younger people that
are coming up through the spore and we'll get to F1 eventually
that are very exciting, such as Kimi Antonelli already got a
podium and he's only what, 1718 years old, like phenomenal kid
and. Say that one more time.
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Kimi Antonelli's, I want to say 18.
And really, yeah, he's already gotten on a podium.
He's on one of the best teams. He's he has a very bright
future. He's a phenomenal kid.
Like, yeah, when they were in, he's Italian.
This past Italian race, I want to say like a month ago, he
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brought his school class to really come watch.
Yeah. Wow.
And that's fascinating because that's also like a, a grounded
like resource. I like equate it to like, oh,
this is something you can get iton the ground floor of, you
know, and when you see all this stuff like taking over like ESPN
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FS1 and you turn on the TV, you fire up an app or what have you,
you can see the streams. You can, you can watch it and
then you can learn about it. And obviously we have the film
that's in theaters right now andF1 with Brad Pitt, which you
know, I mean, it's Brad Pitt. So obviously, you know, they got
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my wife's money and a few other,you know, men and women out
there that just follow everything that you know Brad
has done. But you know that a sport has
really hit that level when you have like a full-fledged company
like Apple wanting to make a film.
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And aside from the film and aside from Drive to Survive, is
it something that allows you to feel more grounded with the
sport? Follow me here.
Because we watch football, watchbasketball.
We know they're the team. They got the city on their back.
But we don't really know the players, you know, we don't
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really know who I don't know. And Josh Allen, we know who Josh
Allen is, but nobody really knows who Josh Allen is.
Nobody really knows the inner workings of the training and
what makes him tick. But I feel like.
For F1, it's what's kind of beenmore captivating.
I mean, you we fire up any social media app.
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A lot of these guys have legionsof followers.
They have copious amounts of endorsements and they're
somewhat living their lives online in the in the, in the
presence of social media. And it's just, it just picks up
and it's like almost like a vacuum cleaner.
They're just picking up everything where they go.
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When you see, you know, Max Lewis or any of these drivers,
does it ever hit hit you that like this kid, like the one that
you just mentioned, it's like heis 17 years old and he's
already, you know, like running laps financially and
legitimately around a lot of other racers in the world.
How does that, how does that hityou that you can kind of see
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behind the scenes in this type of sport?
Oh, it's just crazy to think because on along the lines of
Kim Anton Elliot, there was a funny thing that happened at the
beginning of this season. He has he can he has the license
to drive a Formula One car. And after the first race of the
season, he then got his driver'slicense for a normal car, which
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just gives you a really weird perspective of, wow, that's just
crazy that he can drive these cars, but then he still didn't
have his actual driver's license.
And I think just thing and like their lives are very, their
lives are just being racers. Like everything about them is
they're racers. And so they're always going to
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be online, they're always promoting whatever.
Like the only time they really get to not do that is the in
between seasons. Because otherwise, yeah, there's
the drama. There's they're always working
on next year's car, which involves the those thousands of
people. They said between the people
that are physically there and the engineers, but also the
people that fabricate everythingback at the warehouses and the
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their home bases that they have.And it's just it's 24/7.
It's non-stop, pretty much like you're always that there's no go
home and hide in the corner kindof thing.
That's that's pretty captivating, you know, I mean
captivating on the level of likeseeing everything.
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You know, when you watch these races and when you have like the
ability to watch them and you know that it's slowly making its
way to the states. What were the first intros to
the states as far as race trackswere concerned?
What cities did they go to 1st? The first one was in Austin, TX
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and then Miami and then most recently Vegas.
And there's been talks, I highlydoubt it for Chicago and New
York. I don't see how they're they
would do that, but. We'll see.
That'd be, that'd be a congestedtrack to say the least.
I, I would watch it. I mean, I think that'd be pretty
wild to see what, what track they could come up with.
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Do you know how they come up with the race tracks?
Do you know how they like chooselike what areas to use?
I know Vegas, they obviously like closed down the strip,
which was pretty wild. And we, we were talking about
that before. Like wouldn't it be cheaper just
to get a hotel room and just look out your window and watch
the race? And then you, Mr. Reality came
in and just immediately were like, well, they block out the
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windows. Speak on that a little bit.
That just cracks me up. Yeah.
So Vegas, that first year, because it's only this season,
will be its third time that Formula One goes there their
first year. Yeah, they a lot of people are
like, oh, then yeah, if it's on the Strip, we'll just go get a
hotel room and watch the race from there.
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But Formula One and Vegas realizing how much money that
they would lose from that because just based on actually
buying a Formula One ticket to getting a hotel.
So they decided that all the hotels that were facing that had
windows facing the track they blocked out.
So you couldn't do that. That is so outrageous.
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Oh yeah, it is. And even even on the, I don't
know if whoever's been to Vegas would understand, but the the
bridges that kind of go over theroads, they'd block those out
too. Really.
Wow. So people could get a good deal
with. Yeah, you're on a bridge.
So let me ask you this. What is what is that ticket
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cost? What is that ticket cost for
anybody out there? Because this podcast is played
all over the US, it's played in Europe and a few other areas and
stuff like that. If there are any F1 fans out
there in the States, what are those run?
What are those run, would you say?
I mean, have you looked into it?In the states, Austin's
definitely the cheapest I think for a general admission
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grandstand. It's about, I want to say it was
€300 because on the F1 site theydo everything in Euros and then
Miami I'm pretty sure is about agrand and Vegas was kind of
funny their first year because it was like 5 grand for a
general admission. Wow.
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But then obviously because Max already won the championship
like 6 races beforehand, those by the time it got closer, those
tickets got to like $200 just because there was like no pipe
because a lot of people actuallydidn't really like the Vegas
idea. Yeah.
Why is that, you think? I don't know.
I know at least the people in Vegas, they didn't want all this
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construction blocking off roads that they use for everyday work
and life, right? But have.
You ever been to Vegas? Yes, I.
Am OK yeah, it's it's basically they've rebuilt Sodom and
Gomorrah in the middle of the desert and you got to get out
there to watch an F1 race beforecertain religions figure out
what we're up to out there and shit all over.
Let me get So when it comes to when it comes to these races and
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when it comes to seeing everything like live, would that
be considered a bucket list for you?
Oh, yes, I yeah, it's been on mybucket list to go see a Formula
One race for so long. I yeah, I have.
I have a list of which tracks that I would like to go to
first. Really.
You want to share? Yeah, Japan is first on my list.
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Oh yes. That's mostly because I also
just want to go see Japan, but it's also it's one of my more
favorite tracks, at least in thevideo game to race on.
It's one of my favorite races towatch because I just like tracks
that are more turn heavy and less just straight line kind of
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thing. Miami I would love to go see as
well. And Monaco, because if you want
to watch a Formula One race, youhave to go to the pinnacle of
and that's Monaco. Yeah, Money and money.
And the best part about that is like, like me, you know, you
take the, you take the misses with you, whether they like F1
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or not, you want to go to Monacoor you want to go to Japan, you
know, because and the carry overthere is he could take in the
sights. Obviously Japan would be a great
place to go visit in general, But you know, it's kind of like
a it's not really like a deal breaker, you know, especially
but if you're into that sort of thing and and wanting to, you
know, experience something like that race in person, I mean,
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that'd be pretty wild to see. You know, I think that for F1, I
mean, obviously the movie is done well.
The movie is definitely had somelegs.
It had some weight, you know, toit there.
I think that this the ceiling, we haven't even touched the
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ceiling as of yet on what F1 is going to be or can be.
I agree. And especially next year one of
the teams kick Sauber is turninginto Audi.
That's going to bring a lot of fans like our previous Co
worker. He he loves that brand.
So obviously he's going to get into it.
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And then Cadillac is also joining.
That's an American team. How many American teams are
there? Technically one pass, yeah.
Talk about an underdog story, man.
Like a basically Houseman is what we called Murphy.
Anything that Murphy for those of you who don't know Murphy's
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Law, anything that can go wrong will go wrong and does go wrong.
It's but I think it's also entertaining to see A-Team rise,
rise up because you did say thatthere's a lot of money involved
and I think that is one of the selling points for Drive to
Survive for sure. Yeah.
And in the point, the sense withthe money and everything, it's
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also like baseball. Whoever wins the championship
gets the most money and then it divvies, divvies up down the
line after. So if you win and you keep
winning more and more and more money, so.
That is, how does it work? On the opposite side of that,
how does it work if a team continuously does poorly and
continuously doesn't win and they keep crashing the cars
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doesn't work out, it just goes keeps going downhill, what
happens there? Team Team will buy out another
team. The Audi 1 is a perfect example.
Kick Sauber hasn't been that good of a team.
They were out for a male beforehand, they still weren't
doing well and so now Audi caught the team and they take
over next year and we'll see what happens.
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Because also with next year there's all the different
regulation changes and the cars are going to be completely
different. So it's just it's the worst team
this year, could be the best team next year.
That's it right there, that's it.
I think that is what is the bestpart of F1 is what you love one
year could be a complete train wreck the next year and just to
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see it all change. Yeah, and a perfect story with
this, like buying out of teams and then that team being the
best is I want to say it was 2000 and 7:00-ish, but it's
they're the, they were the only team in history in their first
year as a team to win the Constructors and Drivers
championship. OK.
And for people that don't understand that, the
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constructors championship is thetotal points between each team's
2 drivers versus all the other teams.
So that one's the team championship and that's the main
one. But then there's also the driver
championship and that one's morejust that one's for the drivers
too. I'm better than you kind of
thing. But and with this, that Braun
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team, it was, it used to be Honda racing, but then there was
a recession or something. I was a kid at the time.
There was a recession or. Something going on and so Honda
had to sell the team, but no onewanted to buy because there was
a recession going on until the next year.
So this one guy, I forget his actual full name, but Bron, he
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said, OK, I'll buy the team and I will make it work for this one
year. And so they built in.
This was also during a regulation change and they made
their mechanics, figured something out in the rules and
made the best car in their firstyear.
And then Braun wasn't. They won the constructors and
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the drivers and then Braun was in the team.
After that. They were one year and they won
it all. Wow man, we're in the wrong
profession. Well.
And that's that's also The funnything of as bad as it is, like
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if you want to be a Formula One driver, you, your parents need
to be decently loaded. Or you or.
You have. Connections.
Connections. Or you're Lewis Hamilton and
you're just a standout stud and people will pay the kid to race.
Man, man, it's, it's just so fascinating.
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It's so fascinating how fast everything changes and how
quickly everything is like shifted.
And ironically, when it comes toracing, I mean, that's how fast
it is. That's literally how quick.
And I mean, I enjoy it. You know, I obviously don't
follow it as close closely as you do, but I think that this
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platform here that we're on right now, I think that that is
one that really does sell it, you know, because a lot of
people are, I don't know, do I really want to get into another
sport? Do I really want to devote a lot
of time to it and really allow that much more time to be
interested in the sport? And obviously F1, along with a
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few other big organizations, it's one that's kind of like
captivated a lot of people, you know?
And I think it's cool. I I think it's really, really
cool. I agree.
And I mean, I also think the only really drawback for people
in the States is, yes, most of the calendar is in Europe, and
that means the race times are going to be at 3:00 AM.
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So it's just a matter of that. But I know when they're on this
side of the world then it's better and easier times to
watch. Little convenience there, yeah.
Exactly. All righty.
All right, I mean, if you also just get the apps and don't get
on Instagram, you can wake up inthe morning and watch the replay
of the race and then. Yeah, All right.
Well, you hear that, everybody? So, F1F1, where do you where do
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you stand on it? Where do you, where do you find
yourself with F1? I'll tell you this much.
No droids. I I still enjoy it.
I need to start following it more closely.
I need to keep my ear to the ground more closely with it.
But that's why I have you. That's why I have you here.
You let me know. I think you'll get especially
with these regulations and I know you're in love with the
mechanic side of things. You'll you'll TuneIn a lot more
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next year. All the teams this is already
starting. This is already starting all
right right now. Well, no droids.
Thank you so much for being here.
Amanda talks in F1 today on a Monday, which is good, so
hopefully it'll jar people up and gear people ready to kind of
get involved in some of that stuff.
Thank you so much for being herebro.
Thank you for having. Me all right, everybody, so I
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hope this episode was somewhat informative, somewhat
entertaining and get out there maybe check out some F1, you
know, see what the see what the all the noise is about with this
sport that's been around for years but has somehow found its
way into the youth found its wayinto the average adult.
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Everybody, everybody knows what F1 is.
My mom knows what F1 is. That's when you really know
something when your mother knows.
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Thank you so much for making this podcast a part of your day.
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and I will talk to all of you next week.
Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Core of
Entertainment hosted by me, The OC.
This is an audio only podcast available on Apple and available
on Spotify every Monday morning and every Wednesday morning in
the AM. Thank you so much for making
this platform a part of your day.
Thanking so much to the audienceout there for making me a part
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of your day. And today is Monday, a very,
very special day. We're going to get the week off
the right way. I don't know how many fanatical
sports fans we have have out there.
I know there's a large portion of listeners that is a fan of
F1. Now, for those of you out there,
F1 is a sport that's been aroundfor years, a generational thing
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that's been around for years. A lot of people are into it, a
lot of people have heard of it, but of late it is something that
has taken the world by storm. That could be the teams, that
could be the flashy cars, that could be the engineering, that
could be the money behind it, orthe reach of a worldwide
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phenomenon that the sport has slowly become.
A lot of it credits Netflix Drive to Survive.
For sure. I have someone in the studio
that the audience, early days audience, will be familiar with.
A gentleman by the name of No Droids, who is a big fan of Star
Wars, a big fan of anime, and isalso responsible for myself and
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a lot of other people out there out here in 5280 in our little
circle away from the mic, away from the studio that is
responsible for getting people involved with F1, trying to
understand it, trying to see what resonates so hard with the
sport in today's ever changing, fast-paced social media world.
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And so without further ado, No Droids.
What's going on, buddy? How are you?
I'm doing great, man. So the first thing you said when
you walk through the door was have you heard about all the
stuff going on in F1? And my response was no.
So let's let's touch on that andthen let's kind of delve into
what it is about F1 that got youinto it that resonates so
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differently with you. So First off, set the stage
because every podcast is somebody's first podcast.
And for a lot of people out there, they might not know what
F1 is. So set the stage of the drama
going on. Well, basically Formula One is
considered the pinnacle of motorsport and racing, and
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mostly because it has the most money, the most engineering, the
best tech. And it's just it's bigger than
all the others types of racing for the most part, like GT and
endurance racing, NASCAR racing rally, because they're all very
different and they'll have different goals and they
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function very differently. But, and I think the main thing
that draws people into Formula One, at least in America now,
because of, as you said, Drive to Survive is, yeah, it's just
very different than the NASCAR driving a circle.
And there's rules and the point system.
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And so it's just, I think it's very intriguing.
And there's also the the money, the drivers, because they're
always in the spotlight everything they do.
So it's like you pretty much know their entire lives and
where they are and what they're doing and hence the drama right
now. One of the best generationally
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drivers who has been a Red Bull for I think it was like it's
been like 10 years ish now. He there's a lot of rumors going
around that he might leave Red Bull and go to Mercedes, which
haven't been the best team in recent years, but we're the
greatest team for a solid 6 yearspan.
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And it's just big news because it's always been a rumor but
that's all it's ever been was just a rumor.
However, nowadays the CEO for Red Bull just I don't know if he
got fired, if he left willingly,but he is no longer there.
Christian Horner and normally also Mercedes main driver George
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Russell now normally always getshis contract renewal announced
at the the British Silverstone race every year.
But it didn't happen this year. And they have a very promising
rookie Kim Antonelli this year as well.
So the thing the rumor is with Max going there is because of
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the lack of renewing that contract, Max also has been
talking to the CEO for Mercedes.And so it's just in the air that
it actually could be a possibility since the CEO left,
the Red Bull CEO left. So it's just it's seeming more
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plausible this year compared to the past years.
Now, is that a result of how much money is involved with
this? Because it seems to me watching
Drive to Survive and the races that I've watched and you kind
of being the, the, the focus point of like, hey, you really
should check this out. It's so fascinating.
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It's so and then for years and years, it's just hearing like
hearing the rumors, hearing the,the noise that is F1.
It's been rumbling for a while. Do you think that that is what's
so captivating about it is because it's kind of treated
more like a, I want to say it's like a combat sport because it
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is an engineering team. But the drivers themselves are
in the spotlight quite a bit. And aside from them being in the
spotlight, it's who is going with what team, whether that's
Lewis going to Ferrari, whether that's Max staying where he's
at, whether, you know, certain moves are being made, who's in
control of the money, How many races can they afford to lose?
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How many points can they afford to lose?
How many points can they gain? Where do you think all that,
like stems from? Why is that so interesting to
people? Why do you think?
I think it's very interesting topeople because a lot of other
racing platforms, all the cars are the same, they just look
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different. So under the hood they're the
exact same, same spec everything.
So and then at that sense, it's just the driver and how good
they are. Right.
To which there's the occasional time in F1 that happens, but not
every car is the same. And so I think that's also part
of it is you can have a really good driver and a bad car.
Like Max Verstappen right now, Red Bull's not very good, but he
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still is managing to get top 10sconsistently and get points.
So I think there's just the added aspect of it's not just
the driver, it's also the teams themselves and how they build
the car. Because McLaren and the current
constructors team world champions right now, even last
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year when they won the first half of the year, they were like
fourth. They were not doing good.
And years before they were always dead last.
And then they just came out of nowhere.
Some mechanic, their mechanics just figured it out and made a
beast of a car. And so there's just like there's
times like that where it can happen or another one, this this
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past British Silverstone race, one of the worst teams this
year, one of their drivers managed to get on the podium.
And yes, there was luck involvedwith crashes and safety cars
because it was a rainy race. It was chaotic.
But he'd managed to get third and he's in the ninth best car
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out of 10. So it's just there, there's
always can be craziness and eventhis year as well, McLaren is
far ahead of everybody else. Why?
Why do you think they are so farahead?
Why do you think that McLaren stands above a lot of other
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teams? Because for me, what gravitated
me into F1, You're responsible for this is I started going down
the rabbit hole. We've talked away from the
studio and I've started reading.And what really captured my
imagination was that there is a team.
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There is a team of day in, day out, all day, all night, whether
it's the pit crews, whether it'sthe techs, whether it's the
mechanics, whether it's the driver or the owner.
So many people are involved to accomplish one goal.
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And I found that very, very fascinating that it's not just,
you know, the guy behind the wheel, it's who's in charge of
the engineering behind the, the overall design, the lighter
version of a fin, the the engineering behind the wheels,
the engineering behind all the stuff that makes the car go.
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And that to me was just super fascinating because one of my
personal teams that I followed for a minute there was Mercedes,
Mercedes toe. I mean, let's that he's had said
a few things through drive to survive.
That really resonated with me. Like it's not just me, it's
thousands of people that make this accomplish that accomplish
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what it is we're trying to do. And I think that that to me is
like far and away the most fascinating part of it, you
know? And of course, you have
platforms nowadays in social media and streaming where you
can see all of that. You don't just see the dramatic
races. You don't just see the crazy
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tracks and the weather conditions.
And oh, they're in Abu Dhabi now.
They're in Spain now. They're in China now, they're in
Australia. Oh, now they're in Vegas now.
It's like that part is interesting enough, but what
happens behind the scenes was truly captivating to me.
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When you start watching these races and when you started
following these races, aside from the drivers and the cars
with McLaren, why does that resonate or how does that
resonate with you? What do you mean?
You could have gone with Ferrari, you could have gone
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with Red Bull, you could have gone because Mercedes.
For me, the top dog, immediatelyshowed humility.
Now I could be eating some crow.I don't know the guy personally,
I'm working without all the information here, but he said
something that really resonated with me.
Now, that could be because a camera was in front of him and
he wanted to say what sounded good.
And it's easy to talk a very positive game when Lewis
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Hamilton is your driver and you're you have some of the best
engineers in the world. But why McLaren for you?
I'm always a sucker for the under underdog story and so when
I first started watching dread to survive and like getting into
the sport and everything yeah, obviously Mercedes top dog.
You're like yes, and I honestly like all the teams besides Red
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Bull. But the draw to McLaren was
funny enough because I Lando Norris, McLaren's number one
driver air quotes on that. He has a YouTube channel in like
this YouTube group and I've always watched him and that's
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what led me into actually getting into F1 was because he's
like, oh, I'm a Formula One driver.
So I just, I liked him and I also liked Mercedes.
And then I just based on just the I like an underdog story, I
just made McLaren my favorite and Mercedes is my second
favorite. And I like all the other teams
too. They're all great.
And I like all of their CEOs or drivers like.
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It's a lot of lot of money, a lot of money.
Oh, I know. I mean, if you really want to
show how much like money driven the sport is, you can look at
Aston Martin because the owner of that team paid for his son to
pretty much race for him. And that's a big one that he the
only reason he's there is because his dad was.
The team. So it's it's kind of like Harry
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Potter vibes, yes. Like where Draco Malfoy's dad
kind of bought all the teams, you know, the critics team, the
all the brooms and stuff. Talk about nerdy, right?
Yeah, that's a first for me. God, you ever say something
that's so nerdy? You even like, oh God, that
didn't sound right at all. Yeah, comparing F1 to Harry
Potter. Anyway, just kidding.
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Anyway, so when it comes to the racing as a whole and like the
drivers going from team to team,I would imagine as far as like
learning a new car, you know, that's something that you and I
have talked about away from here, away from the mikes of why
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do you think he's he's struggling.
Maybe this racer, XY and Z, he'sstruggling with this car, but he
was so good with this team. Do you think that falls more to
the relationship and the style of the car?
Why It's hard for someone like aLewis Hamilton to go from
Mercedes to Ferrari and then it's a new car.
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How does that resonate? Yeah, so a good example of that
not being Ferrari is Red Bull. Red Bulls, both of their cars
are built for Max Verstappen. So that second driver, it's like
it's considered a curse to be the second driver at Red Bull
because other teams, they build a good car that's balanced and
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then they will spec it out to each driver in the way they
want. But with Red Bull, both cars are
just Max. So that second driver just has
to adjust to however Max likes his car.
And then there's also different things like Ferrari has always
been more of a straight line speed be the fastest, whereas
when he was at Mercedes like theW 11 many years ago was
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considered the car that could turn corners into straits
because of how aerodynamically sound it was and how fast it
could go into corners. Now correct me if I'm wrong,
didn't Mercedes get into some hot water because of that with
the fins and everything? Yeah, yeah.
Because because of the rules at the time, they with Formula One,
there's always new regulations every, I want to say four or six
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years that change how the cars can be even down to a millimeter
width on a wing. And but then with that given
information, the mechanics can mess around and do stuff.
And so yes, sometimes they will do something that falls out of
the the lines. And even still when they do
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that, they'll sometimes go out of the lines.
But it's also not said that you can't do it.
And So what you're talking aboutwith those fins, they did it and
it didn't comply, but it also did not comply.
It didn't break the rules. Exactly.
It didn't break the rules, but it was like it was.
It was on ice. It was kind of like looking in
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the glass. Looking at right up to the
glass, yes. Not breaking the glass.
Yeah. And then so when that happens,
the FAA who runs the racing and the rules and they make sure
like everything's how it needs to be.
They when something like that happens, they will personally
like look it out, go through allthe papers of the regulations,
figure it out, and then they'll decide yes or no.
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And so in that instance, they were like, they're not breaking
the rules. Like another one with Mercedes
is when they did the wheel that they could like push in to be
like give extra gas and pull out.
And that whole thing, that was also another one where it was
like, kind of like, is that breaking the rules or not?
And then the FAA said that they're fine.
Really. Yeah.
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See that to me is where I I finda lot of that to be so unique
that there would be a rule book to spawn like what are they
doing? How are they so good?
And that to me, I think is what I mean that's kind of what sold
me on a lot of it. You know, we had talked away
from it and said, oh, man, to hear what happened with Red
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Bull. And I'm like the drink.
And you're like, no, no F1. I'm like, oh, oh, they have an
F1 team. And here I am like, I'm my
back's getting hairier by the minute.
I'm already in ape, you know, And now I feel like, OK, well,
you know, there was no record scratch.
Like, let me school you, man. Let me school you, old man.
But it was more in line with like, this is a rule.
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And not only is it a rule, but other teams can like challenge
that rule, that ruling of like, OK, where did they, where did
this come from? How are they accomplishing this?
What are they doing that's so different?
You know when you see F1 as a sport, when you see F1 as an
organization and it's like worldwide, do you ever see this
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is something that is in the infant stages to the new
generation that it could get even bigger than what it is
right now? I think for sure, especially
since now North America is now actually specifically the States
is now actually tuning in thanksto the Direct Survive show.
And so I've just based from thatalone, there's going to be way
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more fans and obviously there's plenty of younger people that
are coming up through the spore and we'll get to F1 eventually
that are very exciting, such as Kimi Antonelli already got a
podium and he's only what, 1718 years old, like phenomenal kid
and. Say that one more time.
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Kimi Antonelli's, I want to say 18.
And really, yeah, he's already gotten on a podium.
He's on one of the best teams. He's he has a very bright
future. He's a phenomenal kid.
Like, yeah, when they were in, he's Italian.
This past Italian race, I want to say like a month ago, he
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brought his school class to really come watch.
Yeah. Wow.
And that's fascinating because that's also like a, a grounded
like resource. I like equate it to like, oh,
this is something you can get iton the ground floor of, you
know, and when you see all this stuff like taking over like ESPN
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FS1 and you turn on the TV, you fire up an app or what have you,
you can see the streams. You can, you can watch it and
then you can learn about it. And obviously we have the film
that's in theaters right now andF1 with Brad Pitt, which you
know, I mean, it's Brad Pitt. So obviously, you know, they got
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my wife's money and a few other,you know, men and women out
there that just follow everything that you know Brad
has done. But you know that a sport has
really hit that level when you have like a full-fledged company
like Apple wanting to make a film.
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And aside from the film and aside from Drive to Survive, is
it something that allows you to feel more grounded with the
sport? Follow me here.
Because we watch football, watchbasketball.
We know they're the team. They got the city on their back.
But we don't really know the players, you know, we don't
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really know who I don't know. And Josh Allen, we know who Josh
Allen is, but nobody really knows who Josh Allen is.
Nobody really knows the inner workings of the training and
what makes him tick. But I feel like.
For F1, it's what's kind of beenmore captivating.
I mean, you we fire up any social media app.
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A lot of these guys have legionsof followers.
They have copious amounts of endorsements and they're
somewhat living their lives online in the in the, in the
presence of social media. And it's just, it just picks up
and it's like almost like a vacuum cleaner.
They're just picking up everything where they go.
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When you see, you know, Max Lewis or any of these drivers,
does it ever hit hit you that like this kid, like the one that
you just mentioned, it's like heis 17 years old and he's
already, you know, like running laps financially and
legitimately around a lot of other racers in the world.
How does that, how does that hityou that you can kind of see
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behind the scenes in this type of sport?
Oh, it's just crazy to think because on along the lines of
Kim Anton Elliot, there was a funny thing that happened at the
beginning of this season. He has he can he has the license
to drive a Formula One car. And after the first race of the
season, he then got his driver'slicense for a normal car, which
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just gives you a really weird perspective of, wow, that's just
crazy that he can drive these cars, but then he still didn't
have his actual driver's license.
And I think just thing and like their lives are very, their
lives are just being racers. Like everything about them is
they're racers. And so they're always going to
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be online, they're always promoting whatever.
Like the only time they really get to not do that is the in
between seasons. Because otherwise, yeah, there's
the drama. There's they're always working
on next year's car, which involves the those thousands of
people. They said between the people
that are physically there and the engineers, but also the
people that fabricate everythingback at the warehouses and the
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their home bases that they have.And it's just it's 24/7.
It's non-stop, pretty much like you're always that there's no go
home and hide in the corner kindof thing.
That's that's pretty captivating, you know, I mean
captivating on the level of likeseeing everything.
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You know, when you watch these races and when you have like the
ability to watch them and you know that it's slowly making its
way to the states. What were the first intros to
the states as far as race trackswere concerned?
What cities did they go to 1st? The first one was in Austin, TX
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and then Miami and then most recently Vegas.
And there's been talks, I highlydoubt it for Chicago and New
York. I don't see how they're they
would do that, but. We'll see.
That'd be, that'd be a congestedtrack to say the least.
I, I would watch it. I mean, I think that'd be pretty
wild to see what, what track they could come up with.
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Do you know how they come up with the race tracks?
Do you know how they like chooselike what areas to use?
I know Vegas, they obviously like closed down the strip,
which was pretty wild. And we, we were talking about
that before. Like wouldn't it be cheaper just
to get a hotel room and just look out your window and watch
the race? And then you, Mr. Reality came
in and just immediately were like, well, they block out the
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windows. Speak on that a little bit.
That just cracks me up. Yeah.
So Vegas, that first year, because it's only this season,
will be its third time that Formula One goes there their
first year. Yeah, they a lot of people are
like, oh, then yeah, if it's on the Strip, we'll just go get a
hotel room and watch the race from there.
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But Formula One and Vegas realizing how much money that
they would lose from that because just based on actually
buying a Formula One ticket to getting a hotel.
So they decided that all the hotels that were facing that had
windows facing the track they blocked out.
So you couldn't do that. That is so outrageous.
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Oh yeah, it is. And even even on the, I don't
know if whoever's been to Vegas would understand, but the the
bridges that kind of go over theroads, they'd block those out
too. Really.
Wow. So people could get a good deal
with. Yeah, you're on a bridge.
So let me ask you this. What is what is that ticket
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cost? What is that ticket cost for
anybody out there? Because this podcast is played
all over the US, it's played in Europe and a few other areas and
stuff like that. If there are any F1 fans out
there in the States, what are those run?
What are those run, would you say?
I mean, have you looked into it?In the states, Austin's
definitely the cheapest I think for a general admission
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grandstand. It's about, I want to say it was
€300 because on the F1 site theydo everything in Euros and then
Miami I'm pretty sure is about agrand and Vegas was kind of
funny their first year because it was like 5 grand for a
general admission. Wow.
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But then obviously because Max already won the championship
like 6 races beforehand, those by the time it got closer, those
tickets got to like $200 just because there was like no pipe
because a lot of people actuallydidn't really like the Vegas
idea. Yeah.
Why is that, you think? I don't know.
I know at least the people in Vegas, they didn't want all this
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construction blocking off roads that they use for everyday work
and life, right? But have.
You ever been to Vegas? Yes, I.
Am OK yeah, it's it's basically they've rebuilt Sodom and
Gomorrah in the middle of the desert and you got to get out
there to watch an F1 race beforecertain religions figure out
what we're up to out there and shit all over.
Let me get So when it comes to when it comes to these races and
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when it comes to seeing everything like live, would that
be considered a bucket list for you?
Oh, yes, I yeah, it's been on mybucket list to go see a Formula
One race for so long. I yeah, I have.
I have a list of which tracks that I would like to go to
first. Really.
You want to share? Yeah, Japan is first on my list.
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Oh yes. That's mostly because I also
just want to go see Japan, but it's also it's one of my more
favorite tracks, at least in thevideo game to race on.
It's one of my favorite races towatch because I just like tracks
that are more turn heavy and less just straight line kind of
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thing. Miami I would love to go see as
well. And Monaco, because if you want
to watch a Formula One race, youhave to go to the pinnacle of
and that's Monaco. Yeah, Money and money.
And the best part about that is like, like me, you know, you
take the, you take the misses with you, whether they like F1
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or not, you want to go to Monacoor you want to go to Japan, you
know, because and the carry overthere is he could take in the
sights. Obviously Japan would be a great
place to go visit in general, But you know, it's kind of like
a it's not really like a deal breaker, you know, especially
but if you're into that sort of thing and and wanting to, you
know, experience something like that race in person, I mean,
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that'd be pretty wild to see. You know, I think that for F1, I
mean, obviously the movie is done well.
The movie is definitely had somelegs.
It had some weight, you know, toit there.
I think that this the ceiling, we haven't even touched the
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ceiling as of yet on what F1 is going to be or can be.
I agree. And especially next year one of
the teams kick Sauber is turninginto Audi.
That's going to bring a lot of fans like our previous Co
worker. He he loves that brand.
So obviously he's going to get into it.
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And then Cadillac is also joining.
That's an American team. How many American teams are
there? Technically one pass, yeah.
Talk about an underdog story, man.
Like a basically Houseman is what we called Murphy.
Anything that Murphy for those of you who don't know Murphy's
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Law, anything that can go wrong will go wrong and does go wrong.
It's but I think it's also entertaining to see A-Team rise,
rise up because you did say thatthere's a lot of money involved
and I think that is one of the selling points for Drive to
Survive for sure. Yeah.
And in the point, the sense withthe money and everything, it's
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also like baseball. Whoever wins the championship
gets the most money and then it divvies, divvies up down the
line after. So if you win and you keep
winning more and more and more money, so.
That is, how does it work? On the opposite side of that,
how does it work if a team continuously does poorly and
continuously doesn't win and they keep crashing the cars
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doesn't work out, it just goes keeps going downhill, what
happens there? Team Team will buy out another
team. The Audi 1 is a perfect example.
Kick Sauber hasn't been that good of a team.
They were out for a male beforehand, they still weren't
doing well and so now Audi caught the team and they take
over next year and we'll see what happens.
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Because also with next year there's all the different
regulation changes and the cars are going to be completely
different. So it's just it's the worst team
this year, could be the best team next year.
That's it right there, that's it.
I think that is what is the bestpart of F1 is what you love one
year could be a complete train wreck the next year and just to
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see it all change. Yeah, and a perfect story with
this, like buying out of teams and then that team being the
best is I want to say it was 2000 and 7:00-ish, but it's
they're the, they were the only team in history in their first
year as a team to win the Constructors and Drivers
championship. OK.
And for people that don't understand that, the
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constructors championship is thetotal points between each team's
2 drivers versus all the other teams.
So that one's the team championship and that's the main
one. But then there's also the driver
championship and that one's morejust that one's for the drivers
too. I'm better than you kind of
thing. But and with this, that Braun
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team, it was, it used to be Honda racing, but then there was
a recession or something. I was a kid at the time.
There was a recession or. Something going on and so Honda
had to sell the team, but no onewanted to buy because there was
a recession going on until the next year.
So this one guy, I forget his actual full name, but Bron, he
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said, OK, I'll buy the team and I will make it work for this one
year. And so they built in.
This was also during a regulation change and they made
their mechanics, figured something out in the rules and
made the best car in their firstyear.
And then Braun wasn't. They won the constructors and
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the drivers and then Braun was in the team.
After that. They were one year and they won
it all. Wow man, we're in the wrong
profession. Well.
And that's that's also The funnything of as bad as it is, like
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if you want to be a Formula One driver, you, your parents need
to be decently loaded. Or you or.
You have. Connections.
Connections. Or you're Lewis Hamilton and
you're just a standout stud and people will pay the kid to race.
Man, man, it's, it's just so fascinating.
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It's so fascinating how fast everything changes and how
quickly everything is like shifted.
And ironically, when it comes toracing, I mean, that's how fast
it is. That's literally how quick.
And I mean, I enjoy it. You know, I obviously don't
follow it as close closely as you do, but I think that this
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platform here that we're on right now, I think that that is
one that really does sell it, you know, because a lot of
people are, I don't know, do I really want to get into another
sport? Do I really want to devote a lot
of time to it and really allow that much more time to be
interested in the sport? And obviously F1, along with a
(33:18):
few other big organizations, it's one that's kind of like
captivated a lot of people, you know?
And I think it's cool. I I think it's really, really
cool. I agree.
And I mean, I also think the only really drawback for people
in the States is, yes, most of the calendar is in Europe, and
that means the race times are going to be at 3:00 AM.
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So it's just a matter of that. But I know when they're on this
side of the world then it's better and easier times to
watch. Little convenience there, yeah.
Exactly. All righty.
All right, I mean, if you also just get the apps and don't get
on Instagram, you can wake up inthe morning and watch the replay
of the race and then. Yeah, All right.
Well, you hear that, everybody? So, F1F1, where do you where do
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you stand on it? Where do you, where do you find
yourself with F1? I'll tell you this much.
No droids. I I still enjoy it.
I need to start following it more closely.
I need to keep my ear to the ground more closely with it.
But that's why I have you. That's why I have you here.
You let me know. I think you'll get especially
with these regulations and I know you're in love with the
mechanic side of things. You'll you'll TuneIn a lot more
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next year. All the teams this is already
starting. This is already starting all
right right now. Well, no droids.
Thank you so much for being here.
Amanda talks in F1 today on a Monday, which is good, so
hopefully it'll jar people up and gear people ready to kind of
get involved in some of that stuff.
Thank you so much for being herebro.
Thank you for having. Me all right, everybody, so I
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hope this episode was somewhat informative, somewhat
entertaining and get out there maybe check out some F1, you
know, see what the see what the all the noise is about with this
sport that's been around for years but has somehow found its
way into the youth found its wayinto the average adult.
(35:09):
Everybody, everybody knows what F1 is.
My mom knows what F1 is. That's when you really know
something when your mother knows.
So thank you so much for listening to this podcast.
Thank you so much for making this podcast a part of your day.
This is an audio only podcast available on Apple and available
on Spotify every Monday morning and every Wednesday morning.
(35:30):
I want to thank Noah droids for being here talking some F1.
Do me a favor check me out at OCentertainment 01 on Instagram
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Tiktok. My review is up there of the new
F1 film starring Bradley Pitt. Brad Pitt, whatever you want to
call him, we know who he is. You know when you see him, he
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probably smells amazing. But nevertheless, jump down into
the comments section below, get a conversation going.
What do you think about F1? Are you on my side of the fence
where you're interested? You like the mechanical side of
it? You like the engineering side of
it? Or are you on no droid's side
where you're all of the above? The racing, the cars, the teams,
the money, everything that goes into making these amazing
(36:13):
machines work. Let me know down in the comments
section. Thank you so much for listening
and I will talk to all of you next week.
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