All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of The Tear Down.

My name is Jeff Gluck.

I'm with my co-worker, Jordan Bianchi.

We are writers for The Athletic.

And while I'm at home here watching all this stuff on TV,

Jordan is living the high life at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas,

where he's just attended, covered his first

F-1 race.

Jordan, how are things there?

It, uh, it was fun.

It was great to be here.

It was, it was an experience, uh, my first ever experience, as you said at an F-1 race.

It was quite, uh, it's kind of a cliche term, but quite the culture shock a little bit,

very different than what I've covered before. And I enjoyed it immensely. It was a, it was a great

weekend. It was fun to be here. And it felt like this felt like an event. We talk about a lot of

racing, how racing should be events on this podcast before. This felt special. This felt huge.

And it's hard to replicate.

You know,

there's been a lot of talk this weekend about what some series do,

what series don't.

But what the formula,

whatever they did here this weekend,

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