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Rivals to catch + records to match - US Grand Prix Preview

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Formula 1

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4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Close fights between drivers. Team battles with millions of dollars at stake. More records for Max Verstappen. There’s still lots to race for in 2022. Tom Clarkson, Damon Hill and Natalie Pinkham are back together ahead of the US Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas. Max Verstappen can match F1's all-time single season wins record, and Red Bull can clinch the Constructor's Championship in Austin. Elsewhere, Ferrari need a strong finish, George Russell’s racing to be top Mercedes driver, and Mick Schumacher is driving for his future at Haas. Plus, clues to the next F1 star from Mexico and the US and a cheeky story about Damon’s dad.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

It's one of the most incredible chapters in our sport's history.

0:04.0

Braun, the impossible Formula 1 story, is streaming exclusively on Disney Plus from the 15th of November.

0:11.0

The series stars Keanu Reeves as host and executive producer in addition to Formula 1 legends,

0:17.0

Ross Braun, Jensen Button, Nick Fry, Rubens Barrakello and Christian Horner.

0:22.0

It's an unscripted documentary series telling the remarkable story of how Ross Braun made the impossible happen.

0:30.0

His understaffed, under-financed and independent team, Braun Grompry, won the Formula 1 World Championship,

0:37.0

taking on the biggest titans of the industry, all after purchasing the team for just £1.

0:43.0

The series goes behind the scenes of this Formula 1 fairytale with the people who were there on the track,

0:49.0

in the garage and in the boardroom giving their own accounts of this miraculous year.

0:54.0

With access to the Formula 1 archives much of it previously unseen,

0:58.0

this series brings you along for the ride to victory, led by British Formula 1 driver Jensen Button and Ross Braun.

1:05.0

I remember that season so well, how the team turned up at pre-season testing and set a stunning lap time.

1:12.0

Their incredible start to the year and the tense race in Brazil where Jensen won the title.

1:17.0

This documentary tells the story so brilliantly, it's definitely worth a watch, especially if you're a newer Formula 1 fan.

1:25.0

Braun, the impossible Formula 1 story, an original series streaming November the 15th exclusively on Disney+.

1:33.0

So that's that then, Tom.

1:35.0

Championship over.

1:37.0

Max Perstapp.

1:38.0

Well, it's not though, is it?

1:39.0

Come on, Damon.

1:40.0

It's concluded, the answer has been decided in a very strange kind of way it has to be said,

1:45.0

because nobody was quite sure whether he had done it in Japan or not.

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