Formula One

“In that there's a lot of, there's a huge amount of gamesmanship because over time they keep adding more and more rules, which are sort of half about making the things safer and which mostly means slowing it down, but half about making it more exciting, which m…”

“You've got this thing now called Motorsports Valley, which I had no idea what it was. And it's basically the biggest hub of motor racing. And most of the F one team still to this day are based in that sort of area in Oxfordshire, which I thought was great.”

“I think Red Bull and Williams beat, beat the records with doing a pit stop in 1.8 seconds, which is insane because I can't think of anything that I'm capable of doing in under two seconds.”

“The amount of technological advancements that they come up with that is pushed into different industries that will, that we are willfully unaware of is fascinating”

“The 7519, 75 Spanish Grand Prix. And that was also one where I think only six or seven drivers actually finished the race, but it's an important one because it's the only time. I believe that a woman driver actually scored a Formula One point. She got half a p…”

“All of a sudden everywhere I look now tech people are wanting to write about Formula One, and I think that that is because Formula One has become part of pop culture because of Netflix that has created this series”

“I think eight out of the 10 teams on the grid have a giant crypto sponsor, FTX being one of them, Binance being another, which is also fascinating, but that's a whole other story for another day.”

“Salesforce did a research About this a couple of months ago, six months ago, where 99% of the fans of Formula One will never attend a race live.”

“In the last two or three years only, have all of the teams, for the first time in the history of Formula One, have the 10 teams across the grid been profitable. For 70 plus years, these teams were operating at a loss.”

“There's two or three drivers on the grid right now who are definitely there because of the money that they're bringing to the table. 100%.”

“All of these other sports are trying to recreate this magical Netflix strive to survive moment. But they seem to omit the fact that we had a pandemic. Everyone was stuck at home. Everyone was dying for content. The first season of Drive to Survive was actually…”

“Most big sports would absolutely love to have everyone's audience right now, which is 41% female, 32 years of age, which I think when you look at the NBA or the NFL, we're talking fifty-year. Years of age on average or 45 years of age on average, and it's a ma…”

“The reality is very few people today are sitting down and watching a full match, a full football match, a full F one race, but Bizarrely, they're consuming four to six hours a day of highlights and reels and social commentary and guides, whatever it is, but th…”

“Salesforce came out with a stat that said one percent of Formula One fans will attend a race in a season, which means, says to me that this is a sport where 99% of the fans are consuming this at home digitally”

“They're currently paying anywhere between 85 to ninety-five million a year. That contract is up by, at the end of twenty-twenty-five”

“F-One is definitely not going to get the initial price set that they want. ESPN is definitely not, sounds like they're not going to fight for it.”

“And I think, in my opinion, I think it's a terrible, terrible mistake to put the US rights of Formula One behind, behind a paywall. Now is absolutely not the time, I think.”

“So more likely that if this deal closes, it's going to close closer to a hundred, a 110 Million. I think my gut feeling is that A, it's probably going to close.”