The Best of The Dan Patrick Show
The Dan Patrick Show
iHeartPodcasts and Dan Patrick Podcast Network
4.5 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Sky Sports F1 commentator David Croft shares how F1 spread across different U.S. cities and breaks down how the sport has thrived in new markets. Legendary actor/producer Michael Douglas discusses his love of F1 and shares a story of a movie stunt that almost went horribly wrong. Comedian/impressionist Matt Friend performs some of his best impersonations and shares how he has risen to be among the best in the comedy world.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:09.0 | David Croft, Sky Sports, Formula One commentator, joining us on the program. |
| 0:14.8 | And Formula One fans in the UK and Ireland can watch this race unfold at Vegas, the Vegas Grand Prix, live on Sky Sports. |
| 0:22.1 | And now, David, good to see you. |
| 0:24.8 | Crofty, as they like to call you. |
| 0:27.2 | How are you? |
| 0:28.1 | I'm good. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm good. |
| 0:29.5 | So explain this, how this exploded in the United States. |
| 0:33.0 | When and how did Formula One all of a sudden become important in our lives? |
| 0:37.3 | I'll take you back to 2005, June the 19th, 2005, my birthday, which is why I remember this day. |
| 0:45.3 | And it was one of the worst days in Formula One history, because that was when we raced at Indianapolis with only six cars. |
| 0:51.3 | If you remember, the cars withdrew on the formation lap because |
| 0:55.4 | the tires, the Michelin tires, weren't holding out. And we hit a new low. And since then, |
| 1:00.9 | Formula One has been right. How do we give back to the American public and actually make this |
| 1:05.5 | sport a bit more accessible in such a great country? So first and foremost, Liberty Media, when they got the commercial rights, decided we needed more races in the States, |
| 1:15.6 | and we needed to move away from Indianapolis, which is great, and the Indy 500 is a marvelous event. |
| 1:20.6 | But let's have another track, and let's have a track that we can really call our own. |
| 1:25.6 | Cota, Circuit of the Americas in Austin. I know if you guys |
| 1:28.9 | have ever been to Austin, you look like you've parted in Austin just a couple of times. Not yourself, |
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