Ed Straw

Yeah.

to have a new event that was successful and popular and well attended, that seemed pretty unlikely.

So in that regard, it sort of restarted F1 in the US, but I don't think it delivered on everything Eccleston would have hoped for.

But that doesn't mean it didn't deliver quite a bit.

And I would say that's the more race fans race in the US.

Now, there's lots of different ways today to follow F1 and interact with F1.

Some of it less related to what's going on on track, which is all great.

But Kota is the race of those three in the US.

If you want to go to the racing purists, the fans race, they go and have a few beers watching trackside and just enjoy the event.

That's what Kota is.

And that's the role it still has to its day.

So it's still a really important part of Formula One in that regard.

Yeah, I think they were because there was this little competition at the back with the three new teams.

So there was a clear... The battle of Q1.

Exactly.

So there's a clear class war to fight there, which was quite interesting.

And they were decent.

They looked the part.

They'd come in and just been credible.

They had good experienced drivers.