All the F1 Drama as Drivers Take on Miami

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🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Last season’s F1 drama was off the charts. The controversial, showstopper ending crowned Max Verstappen champion even as fans grumbled that all-time great Lewis Hamilton got robbed. Now, it’s mechanical challenges causing grief for Hamilton as he heads to the first-ever Miami Grand Prix with half a dozen drivers ahead of him. ESPN F1 editor and lifelong fan Laurence Edmondson catches us up on all the racing gossip, what to expect in Miami, and why US fans are finally catching on to Formula One. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm sorry for what you have needed to drive for the I know this is after I've
0:11.5	been left off what we deserve to score the result so we put them but that's
0:17.8	about the characteristics. If you were out driving somewhere and you suddenly
0:36.5	got a deeply apologetic call from the people who built the car you were
0:41.2	currently sitting in you'd be pretty freaked out I would imagine but for
0:46.6	Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton arguably the greatest driver of all time that
0:51.8	exact thing happened on television at the most recent F1 race in Italy last
0:56.9	month and it is just the latest turn in a shocking season so today we catch you
1:03.7	up on a sport that is pretty much nothing like it used to be from the top
1:07.5	down as F1 pursues its manifest destiny and takes over Miami this weekend I'm
1:16.6	Pablo Torre it's Wednesday May 4th this is ESPN daily
1:29.2	Lawrence Edmondson you are ESPN's F1 editor you're based in London and being
1:34.5	ESPN's F1 editor feels like a really really different job these days then
1:40.7	when you probably first started doing it what's it been like for you to do this
1:45.0	sort of work it's been fantastic I mean I've been working ESPN for over 10
1:49.3	years now and when I first started it was very much the old one out and it's
1:53.5	in its years one out among sports really because it's you know so much
1:56.9	when engineering challenges what is a sport but now it's all kind of coming
1:59.9	around to me and it turns out the thing that I've been excited about for well my
2:03.5	whole life pretty much everybody else is excited about you know we go to the
2:06.7	pub here in the UK and they ask you about it and previously if I started
2:10.8	talking about Formula One everyone would switch off and you know some do
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