David Brown

I mean, some of them barely have driver's licenses.

I'm curious about this, and maybe you can clarify.

Do you get a sense that the teams are looking for personalities as much as good drivers, or is it all about their skill behind the wheel?

You mentioned something about the safety when we were talking earlier and how Formula One hasn't had a deadly crash in a while.

But...

I know when you were commentating for Formula 2, you were calling a race in which a young driver was killed during the, I think it was the 2019 Belgian Grand Prix weekend.

Do you recall that?

I mean, that must be, though, the nightmare scenario in F1, that you have something catastrophic happen while you're going at speeds of over 200 miles an hour.

And I hear you saying that safety seems to be baked into this sport, right?

You sound really confident.

I'm curious as to why, because you see these cars going around the track so fast.

It's hard to imagine sometimes people surviving if things were to go sideways.

You say this, but, you know, they're still driving in the wet, for example.

Like, for instance, there was, what was it, March 2025 Australian Grand Prix.

And it wasn't just that the track was awful, you know.

There were a lot of experienced drivers spinning out.

And on the Mercedes team, you had an 18-year-old making a debut, Kimi Antonelli, I believe,

With conditions being what that is, it seems to me a little amazing that you have a team like Mercedes taking a chance on such a young driver.

Why would a top team do that?

They'd missed out on signing this young prodigy.