Rachel
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And sort of, speaking of timing, like, for Full Swing, it was the PGA versus Liv.
And for Drive to Survive, it was...
F1 was bought by Liberty Media, an entertainment company, in 2017.
2018, they're inviting documentary cameras into their sport, which is a very sort of entertainment industry idea.
And then season two, so which documents 2019 season, came out just as COVID happened.
So everyone's at home.
They're going, what am I going to watch?
That's why I watched it.
Exactly.
There's two seasons of Drive to Survive.
So suddenly...
So many people are watching it that by the time F1 comes out of lockdown, they have more American fans, they have more young fans, they have more female fans.
And every season has just got bigger and bigger because like the timing of everything really couldn't have been more perfect.
And at the same time, for people who were fans of F1 prior to 2018, this hasn't necessarily been what they have wanted the sport to become.
But you're right.
I think the general public wouldn't have had a really in-depth understanding of F1.
And what I found interesting, and I'm not entirely sure how true this is, but...
Apparently, according to people associated with the production team behind Dive to Survive, that it had started off, they wanted it originally to be about Red Bull, like a documentary series about the Red Bull team.
And you can really get that impression in season one.
I loved Red Bull.