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Nico Rosberg calls 18-year-old F1 driver Kimi Antonelli a generational talent
“Antonelli, who was on pole position yesterday, the eighteen-year-old, he started racing, he was eight. He was in my go-karting team when he was 12, so I know him very, very well, and he is a generational talent”
Halo head protection saved Lewis Hamilton's life during 2021 crash
“And this protection, this halo around your head, which recently saved a couple of lives in the last five years, because Max Verstappen, who's now the four-time world champion at the moment, he landed on Lewis Hamilton's head in Italy with the full car, and it …”
F1's US fan base grew from 20M to 50M in six years
“Just in the U.S., you've gone from, in the last couple of, like, six years, twenty million fans to, like, fifty million fans.”
Top F1 teams jumped from $150M valuations to $5B in ten years
“Teams, like, 10 years ago, F-One teams were, like, worth a hundred and fifty million dollars, yeah, and they would lose fifty million a year. And now, the top teams go for five to six billion dollars 10 years later.”
Nico Rosberg retired immediately after winning his championship to exit on top
“I never wanted to exit on the way down. That's something I definitely wanted to avoid. I wanted to exit at the top, and that was my moment, and I decided to pull the trigger.”
Mercedes calculates a $2 billion annual brand ROI from Formula One
“Mercedes, there's a calculated return on investment, which is two billion worth for their brand annually.”
Top Formula One teams make $200M to $300M in annual profit
“Like these teams make 203 hundred million dollars in profit every year.”
F1 has higher digital engagement rates than the NBA and other sports
“Our sport has, like, the highest engagement rates across all sports. Even comparing to NBA and everything”
Nico Rosberg: Europe suffers from cumbersome regulation, fragmentation, and poor politics
“We have the problems with regulatory frameworks being way too cumbersome. We have the geographic fragmentation in Europe, which is very different to the US. Politically, it's really, I mean, quite in a bad place at the moment.”
Nico Rosberg made an early angel investment in AI unicorn ElevenLabs
“11 Labs, for example. . Holy shit. Pretty good. Yeah, that's a, that's gone really well.”
Nico Rosberg says Joby Aviation is the best-positioned eVTOL company in America
“You have Joby, for example, Joby Aviation, which is probably currently best position in the U.S.,”
Applied Intuition supplies software to legacy automakers lagging behind Tesla
“It's a company that supplies software primarily to all the legacy car manufacturers that have not managed this transition to being software first, like Tesla has shown the way and this startup.”
F1 drivers faced a 10% annual mortality rate in Keke Rosberg's era
“They started the season with 20 drivers, and they would end the season with only 18 of them left. So it was a 10% chance, more or less, that you wouldn't make it through the season”
Nico Rosberg built custom software to train his cognitive processing speed
“I even had a computer program, which I developed just for myself, actually, where I would have all these different inputs, so audio, touch, tactile had like a thing around here and even then visual on the computer, and I would be Catching these inputs, like, a…”