Show notes
Formula 1 is three competitions in one: a 200mph battle of the world's best race car drivers, the world cup of engineering where thousand-person teams spend hundreds of millions designing cars from scratch, and — as one of our listeners perfectly put it — the “Real Housewives of the Garage”, a soap opera of billionaire egos, team politics, and paddock drama that makes for incredible reality television.
Highlighted moments
the way to succeed in Formula One shifted from making a more powerful engine or figuring out the very best arrow to figuring out how to exploit the rules.
“they get everyone to agree to a cost cap of $145 million in expenses on the car so not including driver salaries that's separate”
“the NFL monetizes a fan at 127 dollars per year and Formula One monetizes a fan at seven dollars per year”
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