David Brown

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.

Really?

So you think it was like, we don't want to let this opportunity go and Verstappen had a wet race, right?

Yeah, went on to win Chinese GP beating Lewis Hamilton, who's now driving for Ferrari.

And then he won the Japanese National Grand Prix at the ripe old age of 19.

Seems to be adjusting fairly well to the changes in F1 this season without getting too much into the weeds.