Formula 101: Everything You Need To Know About F1 Racing...and Why It’s Having a Moment

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🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Formula 1 Racing has been incredibly popular overseas for decades. Its drivers are some of the most well-known and highest paid athletes in the world, but it's never taken off in the U.S. Now, thanks in part to the hit Netflix series “F1: Drive to Survive,” Formula 1 has begun to convert Americans with its high-speed danger and soap opera drama. Ryan McGee takes the wheel to give a crash course on Formula 1 racing. Then Marc Spears explains what Juneteenth means to him across sports and culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	He starts this year going for a record-breaking eighth world championship.
0:04.0	He has been put under immense pressure by Max Verstappen and Red Bull here tonight.
0:08.2	Sir Louis Hamilton, as he is now, crosses the line and wins the Bahrain Grand Prix.
0:19.2	That was the sound of one of the biggest athletes on the planet, Lewis Hamilton,
0:25.6	dominating one of the biggest sports on the planet, Formula One Racing.
0:32.3	It's a sport that has been wildly popular overseas for decades, but suddenly seems to be having a real
0:39.2	moment stay inside, and I, for one, am extremely out of the loop. So today, Ryan McGee is here
0:48.9	to hold my hand and take the wheel as he gets all of us up to speed.
0:59.9	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Friday, June 18th.
1:04.8	This is ESPN Daily.
1:11.4	Ryan McGee, I have brought you here today because I have a bad case of FOMO, and it's a
1:16.8	particular strain of FOMO.
1:19.0	It is Formula One FOMO, FOMO, high grade fombo, because it feels like I just woke up one day,
1:26.8	and all of a sudden, like all these woke up one day and all of a sudden like all these
1:29.1	people on sports Twitter and all of my friends, they're suddenly really into Formula One
1:34.4	racing and I just feel left out. So you are our czar of motorsports. I hope you can get me up to
1:41.5	speed. I've been trying to tell you all these guys are cool, and these cars are awesome for 25 years.
1:47.7	Ryan McGee has covered motorsports for decades, and he has been trying to get idiots like me to pay
1:53.3	attention to Formula One for just as long.
1:56.8	So welcome aboard is what I have to say to anyone who has suddenly discovered Formula One,
2:02.1	because I've discovered it at a young age. And I'm bring them all in, man. I'm not,
2:07.3	I'm not arrogant guy that doesn't want the club to get bigger. I want everybody to watch.
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