Our verdict on F1's huge launch event in London
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
We react to Formula 1’s first-ever group launch event in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.
Jon Noble and Charley Williams join Edd Straw from the O2 Arena in London to appraise F1 75 and ask whether this one-off event could become a regular one.
We pick out the teams that made the best (and worst) impressions with their segments and what we want to see more, or less, of in the future.
We also gauge the crowd reaction and what it says about F1. And with plenty of news emerging from the day, we also ask if F1’s Monaco two-stop plan is a good one.
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| 1:22.5 | The race is on and F-1 hit the O2 in London for an all-singing, all-dancing launch event. |
| 1:31.6 | While the 2025 cars weren't there, the liveries, drivers and team bosses were, along with 20,000 fans. |
| 1:37.5 | So was it the hit or a miss? And what do we learn from it? |
| 1:40.6 | I'm Ed Straw and joining me here at the O2 are John Noble and Charlie Williams. |
| 1:45.8 | Let's get straight into it, John. What did you think of it? I liked it. I arrived here quite |
| 1:51.7 | skeptical about the whole thing. I thought, this is a bit too much kind of showbiz. This is not |
| 1:57.7 | going to be a great spectacle. It's going to be all compressed. |
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