Ryan McGee

And then later on, my colleague Nate Saunders will be watching the Indy 500 with the McLaren guys as they're packing up in Monaco. And then they'll all watch the Coke 600. That's what's changed over the last 30 years is – All of these racers watch different types of racing. When I first came along, you had to make a choice.

Are you an NHRA guy or a NASCAR guy or a Formula One guy or an IndyCar guy? And now there's so much cross-pollination, everybody watches all of it. And that part to me, yeah, I don't think it's even close. It's the biggest day of racing in the world.

Are you an NHRA guy or a NASCAR guy or a Formula One guy or an IndyCar guy? And now there's so much cross-pollination, everybody watches all of it. And that part to me, yeah, I don't think it's even close. It's the biggest day of racing in the world.

Are you an NHRA guy or a NASCAR guy or a Formula One guy or an IndyCar guy? And now there's so much cross-pollination, everybody watches all of it. And that part to me, yeah, I don't think it's even close. It's the biggest day of racing in the world.

Oh, yeah. And you mentioned COVID. That's all it is. What people don't realize is that Netflix Formula One show, which won a Sports Emmy just as we were recording this again, that show had existed for a couple of years before COVID and no one watched it.

Oh, yeah. And you mentioned COVID. That's all it is. What people don't realize is that Netflix Formula One show, which won a Sports Emmy just as we were recording this again, that show had existed for a couple of years before COVID and no one watched it.

Oh, yeah. And you mentioned COVID. That's all it is. What people don't realize is that Netflix Formula One show, which won a Sports Emmy just as we were recording this again, that show had existed for a couple of years before COVID and no one watched it.

When everyone was stuck at home for COVID, they're just looking for something to binge. And people started watching it. And the attraction of Formula One has always been two things. It's the spectacle of it. The cars are phenomenal. They don't race particularly well against each other. Like, there's not really a show.

When everyone was stuck at home for COVID, they're just looking for something to binge. And people started watching it. And the attraction of Formula One has always been two things. It's the spectacle of it. The cars are phenomenal. They don't race particularly well against each other. Like, there's not really a show.

When everyone was stuck at home for COVID, they're just looking for something to binge. And people started watching it. And the attraction of Formula One has always been two things. It's the spectacle of it. The cars are phenomenal. They don't race particularly well against each other. Like, there's not really a show.

But the cars have always been the most technologically advanced machines on the planet.

But the cars have always been the most technologically advanced machines on the planet.

But the cars have always been the most technologically advanced machines on the planet.

Yeah, they're phenomenal. But the other part is the soap opera. And, you know, when I first started working at ESPN in the 90s, it was Michael Schumacher versus Damon Hill. And I just saw Damon Hill in Miami at the Formula One race a few weeks ago, and we were talking about this. And the racing itself, with the exception of a couple of races, weren't great.

Yeah, they're phenomenal. But the other part is the soap opera. And, you know, when I first started working at ESPN in the 90s, it was Michael Schumacher versus Damon Hill. And I just saw Damon Hill in Miami at the Formula One race a few weeks ago, and we were talking about this. And the racing itself, with the exception of a couple of races, weren't great.

Yeah, they're phenomenal. But the other part is the soap opera. And, you know, when I first started working at ESPN in the 90s, it was Michael Schumacher versus Damon Hill. And I just saw Damon Hill in Miami at the Formula One race a few weeks ago, and we were talking about this. And the racing itself, with the exception of a couple of races, weren't great.

But the drama, the story of Formula One was what happened from Monday morning to... all the way up to the green flag and it was this guy doesn't like that guy or this guy you know we had spy gate and we had people stealing secrets and guys changing teams and taking technological you know secrets from one of the other all this stuff and so What the Netflix show does is it underlines all that.

But the drama, the story of Formula One was what happened from Monday morning to... all the way up to the green flag and it was this guy doesn't like that guy or this guy you know we had spy gate and we had people stealing secrets and guys changing teams and taking technological you know secrets from one of the other all this stuff and so What the Netflix show does is it underlines all that.

But the drama, the story of Formula One was what happened from Monday morning to... all the way up to the green flag and it was this guy doesn't like that guy or this guy you know we had spy gate and we had people stealing secrets and guys changing teams and taking technological you know secrets from one of the other all this stuff and so What the Netflix show does is it underlines all that.

It highlights all that. And it takes these robotronic seeming people and gives them personalities. And so, yeah, the reality is that's what they love. And it's also they're good looking. I was in Miami, man. It was 16-year-old girls as far as you could see.