- Oh my God, the event reviewer who's
known for going to bad events went to one of the most
disliked Formula 1 Grand Prix. This ought to be good. (glasses clanking) That's it, that's my intro. (logo popping)
Hi, I'm Amanda. You're watching Swell Entertainment, and today we are talking
about Miami Grand Prix but also mainly, because I want to, F1 Academy at the Miami Grand Prix. I don't know if it's necessarily
the most hated Grand Prix. I think it's the most
disliked US Grand Prix and usually what people
point to Vegas as well now, but last year was the first year Vegas. This is now the third year
of the Miami Grand Prix that people point to to be like, "Oh my god, America's ruining the sport." I get it. The US is at least pricing
people out of this sport and this is already a very
expensive sport to begin with. Also, I'm still in my hotel room. It is nine o'clock at
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and thank you again, Aura, for sponsoring this video. Before I jump into the bulk of this video, 'cause there's always at least 20 of you. Let me make a couple of things very clear. First off, I am a fan of Formula 1. I've been a fan for a little
over a year and a half now, and this is my third Grand Prix. This is my second US Grand Prix. Last month, I went to
the Japanese Grand Prix. I do not get paid or
invited to Grand Prix, but I wanna make it abundantly clear. I paid my own way here,
I paid for my flight, paid for my hotel, paid for my rental car, I paid for my tickets, I paid for it all. Why do I do that? That's the whole shtick of my channel. You don't invite me,
I'm showing up anyway, and I'm making a video. Congrats, welcome. Typically I prefer to pay my own way, because then I can be completely honest. I wanna make that abundantly clear. I'm a variety creator who does
commentary, product reviews, event reviews and media reviews, 'cause what's the point
of being self-employed if you can't find ways
to make your obsessions, you know, profitable. I should also note there was
one thing I was invited to. I was not paid to be there. I was simply given a one day ticket in exchange for eight Instagram
story posts, two reels, and two TikTok, and that was the Hard
Rock Beach Club on Friday. I was invited to that, because a bunch of other
content creators submitted me to a creator agency when they were asking if anyone was going to be
at the Miami Grand Prix and a bunch of my friends know that I'm just so chill about this sport that they submitted me for. Tickets this weekend were the
Campus Pass, which is the GA, which was, when I bought
it, about $465 I think. And then I did the Stadium Club add-on because I figured it would be
somewhere inside to go into because I know how Miami heat is, okay? And I figured that I would
want at least some place to go inside of and then it would be good to have a spot to at least watch the race from. I fully was under the impression that I could at least
see some of the track from the Stadium Club, you really can't, but that was an additional
$1,000 for the weekend. If I just sit here and explain
why people have not liked the previous two Miami Grand Prix, we're gonna be here for too long. But I will note that I am very impressed by their ability to tweak and adapt. It is typically fairly small things. For example, in the
first Miami Grand Prix, the winners instead of hats,
they got helmets to put on. It looked goofy. Really glad they got rid of that. And then last year they did
an insane opening ceremony that was universally called cringe. Cringe is another person's fun,
but like this was too much. The drivers were unhappy,
everyone was unhappy, it was not good. This year, there was none of that, okay? Progress, growth. Also, I decided to go to Miami, because this was the second
round of F1 Academy for 2024, and it's the only round of F1 Academy that's going to be taking place in the US. Last year it took place
at Coda, this year Miami. "Amanda, what is F1 Academy?" Oh my god, I'm so glad you asked. F1 Academy is the entirely female, hopefully feeder series for Formula 1. "Finding the next generation
of talent on and off track. F1 Academy is here to
champion the next generation of female talent to explore
their own motorsport journeys by breaking down barriers to entry on track in the
F1 Academy Racing series and through grassroots initiatives such as F1 Academy Discover Your Drive, we hope to make Motorsport more diverse, inclusive, and accessible. I love this, I love the fact that there is
a full female feeder series. Okay, this does not
detract from F4, F3, F2, any teams, drivers, academy. The existence of F1 Academy
is its own thing, okay? It's just an initiative. It's hopefully a feeder series. Now there are officially
five teams within F1 Academy, each with three driver. We got Rodin Motorsport, MP
Motorsport, Campos Racing, Art Grand Prix and Prema Racing. But 10 of the drivers
are also being supported by F1 teams this year as well. I learned about F1 Academy last year actually from one of their
drivers, Bianca Bustamante. Bianca showed up on my
For You page on TikTok. This year is also cool because
this year for F1 Academy, there will actually be Super
Licence points awarded. So for those of you that
don't understand Formula 1, Super Licence points
are how you can end up eligible for Formula 1. There are other qualifications
like being over 18, that's the Max Verstappen rule now. As among other things but specifically the Super Licence points, you need to have a certain
amount in order to qualify, for the top five drivers to be
getting Super Licence points in F1 Academy is a huge deal. Now, they're a little more
caught up with F1 Academy. Let's get back into the Miami Grand Prix. So Friday imagine my surprise
as someone who is so excited to come out and support F1 Academy and just cheer on these girls
for their first practice. Imagine my surprise when I see that their practice starts at 10, parking lots for the venue
don't open till 10:30, and we're not even allowed
inside the venue until 11:30. What's frustrating is for this video, I decided I really, really,
really, really, really wanted to focus on F1 Academy 'cause this is the probably
only race for F1 Academy I'm gonna be able to go to this year, and I already am missing something, because they have designed it that way. It feels like Miami doesn't care enough, or that they don't think
that they're gonna be able to draw enough of a crowd. I don't know. I'm of the opinion that F1 is not advertising F1
Academy nearly enough or even the right way, and I don't think this
was well explained at all, because a lot of people
were like, oh my god, wait, that's why there was no
one on the broadcast. Like they were watching the
broadcast of free practice and were confused why
the stands were empty. Yeah, 'cause they didn't
give us the chance to come on and support these drivers
in their free practice and show what type of
crowd they can bring out. That would've been a
really good show of support for F1 Academy to be like, "Hey Miami, come on in. F1 Academy is starting,
we've got coffee on site," you know, whatever, I
don't know, something. But to have them on track when there's no spectators
is annoying as hell. And I was annoyed when
they kicked us out in Vegas but that was for a completely
other separate thing. You guys just didn't think
the manpower was worth it is my guess. You didn't think it was worth the cost of having people on site working the venue and that's why you didn't
have spectators there, which I'm sorry, is
insulting to the F1 Academy, and the F1 Academy drivers. Just saying, none of us
are inside for F1 Academy. I get inside the gates and I book it to the Hard Rock Beach Club. I was told to be there before 1:30 and I got in at like 12-something, because the line was so long, and I had to book it
across the entire campus, because this thing is laid out
like a child drew it frankly this entire campus. But I got there, and I parked it there, and I was seemingly the
only one there for a while. Now the Hard Rock Beach Club, like I said, I was only there on Friday. A lot of the flips and things like that that I'm seeing floating around for like outrage bait are
not from Friday, okay? I wanna make that abundantly clear, 'cause I was in there, and
it is not worth the money. Now the cost for a three-day pass to the Beach Club was about 1750 if I'm remembering correctly. I'm not quite sure what the day rate was, because I couldn't find
that information anymore. They typically like pull things off when you get closer and closer. For comparison, Stadium Club was 1,000, and like said, the images
that are going crazy from here are typically the musical performances that are happening there. Okay, Steve Aoki is who I
saw perform while I was there and the food prices, the food prices of the Hard
Rock Beach Club are being touted as the food prices for the entirety of the F1 Miami Grand Prix. Which I honestly think that Miami Grand Prix are doing it intentionally at this point, because did you guys
not think it was weird that the only people really
posting about these prices were actual influencers inside the space? But I made a video of my experience in the Hard Rock Beach Club and I share that the food options that were there on Friday, I don't know if there was
food available on the thing. I never saw it. I don't think they were doing the deliver food to you situation that is now going viral for the costs. The costs are insane. I'm not gonna pretend that they're not. But this isn't for like fans really. I'm not to say that there
weren't race fans there, but the Hard Rock Beach Club is for like, you want the musical experience that is the Miami Grand Prix. You want to be there because you want to
see Steve Aoki perform. You wanna see these DJs perform. You want to be around influencers I guess, or at the very least you
wanna look like you have money and that you're having a great time but you can't afford the Paddock Club. This section is
technically only accessible for the Beach club, and there's two food trucks over here. There's none inside the
actual Beach Club itself. And then we've got our own little back and that's really nice,
and air conditioned. Friday as a race fan, I was fairly disappointed being
in the Hard Rock Beach Club. I was especially disappointed when Free Practice 2 did come 'cause I'm parked up by
the wall right at turn 11, excited to see these cars rip by, and they don't have any
of the commentary playing for F1 Academy. They didn't show any of the track coverage for the Porsche Carrera Cup, which I was really disappointed by 'cause I really enjoyed
watching the Porsche Carrera Cup when I was in Japan. And so the fact that they
didn't do any coverage of that in the Beach Club is annoying. They had one big screen here. Miami Grand Prix also
was a screen problem. I don't care what anyone says, you guys do not have enough screens for how low visibility your seats are, and the space of your track is, you should have infinitely more screens. I think where you get away with it is because the stadium
itself has a ton of screens, because it's a stadium, okay? So if you're in the stadium, or you're trying to view track from being high up on the stadium, you're closer to a screen. However, volume, again, the announcer's volume was
bad, speaker situation, I just feel like that's something that three years in should
be remedied at this point. There should be more screens,
there should be more speakers. You should have that
dialed in at this point. These cars are loud. Your standard speaker volumes are not going to cut it when these cars are ripping through the
track, that's just how it is. And then of course I was even more annoyed by the end of Free Practice 2 Friday because that's when Steve Aoki came out and started performing, which is partially why I
was supposed to be there. They were like, hey, you were there for
the musical performances is literally why I was told I was invited. I filmed that once the F1 Academy was done and I filmed a little bit
of like, "Oh yeah look, here's the racing, here's Steve Aoki. Look at the F1 Miami pit crew
getting caked by Steve Aoki. Super cool." Between that and not letting
spectators be on site for Free Practice 1 of F1 Academy, it feels disrespectful to F1 Academy. Miami, what are you thinking? Okay, I don't know if you
guys looked Jetta, okay, and thought, "Oh well this
is the turnout they had." And I even heard Lia Block at one point when she was doing a little
interview in the paddock. We'll talk more about the
paddock situation in a second that she was like, "Oh yeah, no, in Jetta there really weren't any fans, and here there's so many fans, it's really overwhelming,
it's really cool, whatever." They clearly did not expect
the fan turnout of Miami, which I don't really understand why. Every single country has
their own fan culture. Whether we like to admit it or not, American fans, we can be scary as hell. It's not a slight to Americans, it's an acknowledgement of the fact that we can go a little too crazy, okay? And so for the Miami Grand Prix, I don't know why you would think that that would be any less
the case for F1 Academy when you are expecting and hopefully trying to make a profit on the fan frenzy that comes with F1. Seems like common sense to me. Thought you guys were
supposed to be businessmen, and what's happening here? Now this weekend was also a Sprint race. I actually like the Sprint races. A lot of people don't, but
Sprint qualifying was that night. Now as I was leaving Friday, and trying to make it back
to my rental car at the lot, if you're gonna drive,
you have to trek, okay? Or pay someone to ride you
on a slightly electric bike. But as I was trying to
make my way back to my car, I stumbled upon the fact
that the F1 Academy paddock and the Porsche Career
Cup paddock were open. I didn't know that. So the F1 Academy paddock is totally open. Lola's right over there. It's cool that their paddock is just open like this is just included in the package. Charlotte Tilbury is a historic move, because first woman
owned company to sponsor. The paddock itself was open. Very cool. There was a couple of the drivers
out while I was out there, but like I said, it was late. I had to go get somewhere else. So I started making my way to my car. Didn't really spend a lot of
time on their Friday night, Saturday, I wanted to spend way more time, especially before their race. So like I said yesterday, the paddock is typically open. They have it closed right now, because they're getting ready
for qualifying at 10:45. But these gates just opened up. But even then, like close to be getting
ready to run for qualifying, you still have quite a lot
of access, which is crazy. So I will give this to Miami right away. Is that just having
this set up here as well with all the crews, the amount of access to drivers is really unprecedented so far for any of the Grand Prix
races that I've been to. Now, Saturday, F1 Academy
had their qualifying session, and there are two races
for the F1 qualifying. So Saturday I was in the Stadium Club. Stadium Club is not worth it. I'm sorry, I don't think it is, because what you get is a
room, closed, air conditioning. Nice, great, really nice
break, okay the heat, 'cause I apparently am
just too Californian. There's a couple little
things that are cool in there. Okay, drinks free. I got, you know, waters,
sodas, Red Bulls on occasion, regularly, free, nice. Food is not free there. There's a lot more screens in there. Okay, so it's great to
watch the race if you want. The problem is is that the commentary, can barely hear it in there and sometimes, sometimes they had it loud,
sometimes they didn't. Sometimes there's just
too many people in there, you can't hear what they're saying. What I did like about this
is that there was a section that was Stadium Club only obviously for seats for the stadium itself. So I was able to go down
into the stadium and sit and watch the race inside the stadium overlooking the F1 hospitality paddock. This a Stadium Club viewing area, but it is just the same as everyone else, which is not a problem in and of itself. Who cares? But I'm not fully understanding what $1,000 gets me for the weekend with Stadium Club is all I'm saying, because you really don't
get a good view of the track from inside the Stadium Club. You get the screens, but I can also get the
same experience from here and sure you get the AC, that's really it. You're paying for air conditioning really, and shorter food and drink
lines for one's food option. This is pretty much where
I watched every single race and every single event for
the rest of the weekend, because like I said, Miami
Grand Prix has a screens issue, there are screens in the
general admission areas, but it's not an ideal situation. Like I said, the audio situation is bad. So there would be times where I'm like, "I wanna go see cars on track, and I would go and do that, but then they're gone,
and I can see no more." The best case for me to go and see the entirety of this race is to stay in the stadium
and watch them there and listen to the commentary from there. The Sprint race happens,
Max wins, Lando DNFs, not gonna lie, I was real worried, because he also got his pit
stop bumbled when I was in Japan and then in Vegas is when
he crashed into the barrier. I'm not gonna lie, I was really worried I was jinxing McLaren
while being on track. I just watched the F1
Academy qualifying session in the Stadium Club. But the race itself, I
watched inside the stadium. Let's talk about the commentary. I have names now 'cause you
guys really pissed me off. Bob Varsha, John Massengale
and Jonathan Green. You guys were so horrifically bad onsite for F1 Academy. I think it genuinely set us
back at least a year, maybe two. I'm assuming no one told
you guys that you were going to have to be commentating on F1 Academy or maybe you just
thought it would be easy, but you guys were so
unenthusiastic, and insulting, and sometimes just openly sexist. It was genuinely impressive. Now I wanna make something clear, because already when we've
talked about this on Twitter, the people that were on track and I, there are people who are
like, "I didn't hear that, you must be hearing things." The broadcast that you guys saw and what was on site were
two different things. The commentary that we had on site is not the same from
the F1 Academy broadcast that you may have been watching. Chloe Chambers, who is
supported by Haas in F1 Academy is from the US, okay? And she had a very good possibility of getting onto the podium and she ended up getting onto the podium. Fantastic, congrats to Chloe. They spent a very weird amount of time, talking about the fact
that she was adopted, which I'm sorry, what does that
have to do with her racing? Like in this moment,
there's cars on track, a race is happening, and then sure enough, one
of the guys mentioned, one of the announcers mentioned that he is an adoptive parent as well. That's great, I'm not sitting
here to knock adoption. I am saying what does this have to do with the cars on track? Because they were so
busy talking about this. They were just like, oh, Abbi Pulling crosses the finish line. That's the checkered flag. They nearly missed her winning. They did not understand, you know, how the F1 teams were
involved in F1 Academy, which I get you guys not understanding, because a lot of you don't watch F1, you get your F1 content from me the same way you get
your TikTok information and things like that from me. If you are commentating a race, you should know how the teams
are involved in F1 Academy. The very least the basic
principles of F1 Academy. Now at this point, I did not hear this, but it's been complained about enough. I know what happened. The audio cutout in the
stadium, like I said, as they were heading to the podiums and it didn't come back until the end of the British national anthem for Abbi, while they were all on podium and then obviously the audio comes back, it's still not good, but whatever. Apparently Abbi committed
a cardinal sin, okay? In the eyes of men, even though all drivers when they take off their
helmet after a race, 'cause it's hot as hell in those cars. They take off their helmet,
they take off their balaclava. That's not the name. They take that off, they fix their hair, because of course you do. But apparently Abby fixing her hair on the way to go into the Jeep or in the Jeep on the way to the podium, one of the commentators, who I still don't know which
one at this point in time said, "I'm trying not to make a
sexist comment right now." Sorry, what was that? How about you just don't say that. Marissa from Grid Shot who I talked with and hung out with a lot this Grand Prix also made a video talking about this in much more in depth on her TikTok and she talked about how
they kept making comments about how Abbi does not look her age, and she looks much younger
than her age, which is weird. What are you doing? How about, "Oh my God,
she looks so excited, she's so happy to be on
pole, That must feel good, that must be great." Not "She looks way younger than 21." How about, fuck off. God, what is wrong with you? Get women. They were so bored the entire time. That was a great race too. Like there was so. Okay, for F1 qualifying
after the F1 Academy race. The same announcers said, "All right, ladies, time
to put your phones away. It's time to watch some racing." If I say what I want to,
I'm going to be arrested. Now on Saturday I kept
going back and forth to the F1 Academy paddock
to spend way more time there and see the cars getting
worked on and all of that. Now, while I was there as well, because at this point in
time I did not know the names of the on-track presenters, okay? But I saw some people from
F1 Academy sitting down, like having a break and
talking or whatever, and I said, "Hey question, do you guys know the name of the person who made the comments about Abbi, got to talking a little bit, very briefly, and they said that they
had not heard the comment, but they were very unhappy with the on-track commentary, okay? And that they had
already talked about that with someone at F1, okay? Or at least implied that to me. And they told me that they were very upset when they got their track times, and that they did try to fight it. So again, no one can say, "Oh
well F1 Academy wanted that." It's very clear that that
was the Miami Grand Prix deciding that F1 Academy was
just not going to have fans on track for Free Practice 1. At the end of the day, I don't wanna keep 'em held up any longer, so I kept on walking, I'm trekking back to my car. I have at least a
30-minute walk ahead of me. I already reapplied sunscreen. Today is Sunday, race day, yay! Then it was time for the F1
Academy's second race, okay? So like I said, Abbi won the first race. Doriane got second, Chloe got third. But today for this race
I will give them this. They clearly did get a talking to, they clearly were given a little sheet that had more information
about F1 Academy point by point by point by point. And you know what, I'll take
it, that's progress, okay. They didn't make any weird
comments about anyone's families. They didn't, you know, make any comments about people's fixing their hair. Again, certain parts of it I couldn't hear because of the nature of the stadium and how they kept cutting it out. But I haven't seen nearly any complaints the way I did yesterday. My guess is on Laura Winter
and maybe Susie Wolff or even just the entirety of
the F1 Academy conglomerate that was there just marching in, and being like, "Hey, what are you doing?" Like a full on like gang pulling up, like putting the fear of God and Tommy Hilfiger pressed
white shirts into them. I would love to know what happened. They clearly got a talking to, 'cause there was progress made. The enthusiasm I would've liked more of, but it was much more
on par of what they did for the actual F1 commentary. So I'll give them that. They were still not very
enthusiastic for the checkered flag but is what it is. Like I said, Abbi Pulling got first again, I messed up while recording,
but Doriane Pin got third, and Bianca Bustamante got second. Now, before the F1 Academy race though, something happened while I
was in the F1 Academy paddock. I wanna acknowledge this, because I think it's another indication of how F1 Miami failed F1 Academy, and how I feel like there just needs to be a better line of communication when you're dealing with
something like this. The paddock was open
before the race, okay? It's like an hour before the
race is supposed to start. Now already, I think they
should have cleared us by this point. The gates should not have been open. The paddock should not have been open for spectators at this
point for safety purposes because they only have so long to get these cars ready to go, okay? There's things that they have to do that they can only do in
a certain amount of time before the race. We should be out at that point. I don't think that spectators should have been in the paddock when they are trying to bring in essentially industrial golf carts through with front wings and tires and the like that are gigantic. At the very least it's
gonna break someone's foot if it drives over them. They're also, again, rolling the cars out. They're rolling the cars back, 'cause they have to go to one spot to get all geared up and all this stuff. I wanted to get a clip
of me next to Maya's car because I wanted to
show you guys for scale how the cars look next to someone like me. I'm five-two, it's well documented, okay? I know I get from here, I give very tall energy
apparently, I am tiny. No big deal trying to get the clip. There's a lot of people. But then I start making
my way back around. Now I wanna make something
abundantly clear. There are two very clear,
massive standouts in F1 Academy. I'm not saying that that's good or bad or slight to any of the others, okay? But there is just two much
more well known drivers currently in F1 Academy, and that is Bianca
Bustamante and Lia Block. Lia Block is driving with
the support of Williams for F1 Academy, but she is also the youngest
rally driver champion. She won last year, 17 years old. Bianca at the end of the day acknowledges that she also needs to be a social media marketing powerhouse because there is money and security in being a very marketable driver. I fully think that's why
McLaren went with her, okay? And McLaren said we want Bianca, not to say that they didn't choose her on her driving abilities, but McLaren loves a marketable driver. I'm not saying that all of
the drivers need to have, you know, be self-marketing powerhouses, but I am saying that historically and looking at the F1
grid currently, okay, there are two very clear
examples of drivers who are not performing at their best, one of whom is very
marketable and very well liked and one who is basically an NPC. Hi Logan, I wanna
support you, I really do. I need you to give me more. I know there's a weird floor
to put in you somewhere. The NPC, you know American athlete bit isn't working on me, sorry. But like we see the difference between how people speak about him versus how they speak
about Daniel Ricardo. For example, this race as well. I know they talk about Chloe Chambers. Lia Lock, it's also
technically her home race, 'cause it's the only US race there was. This is also Logan Sargeant's home race. Not even just that, it's not
even just that he's American, he's from Florida. Do you know how little they
did for Logan in Miami? One thing if that in Japan
there were shrines to Yuki. There was a Yuki queue,
they were so excited, and so excited to see Yuki race, and then Yuki got points
and it was this huge deal. Okay, look at China, okay? And the reverence that
there was for Zhou Guanyu. I don't think that you can look at that, and then look at Miami, where, again, Logan is from Florida, and not see that same reaction Logan, and not understand that like
something is going wrong and how you are personally
marketing yourself, okay? Again, drivers shouldn't
have to market themselves, but that's the reality of the
fans and the currency of 2024. It's a very social media industry. We see this with drive to survive. We saw the boom that it is, we see this with Lando and Quadrant. We see this with pretty
much every other driver and how being either super online or super offline affects their fan bases and how their fans think about them. Sorry for the Logan Sargeant Tangent. My stream knows my opinions on this. We literally spent a
whole stream brainstorming potential sponsors for him. I'll DM them to you, Logan, you don't even have to reach out to me. But my point is, is that
these two are very big draws, especially here in Miami. People in America love McLaren, okay? So even if they're not
familiar with Bianca, they know this is a McLaren driver that they get to get access to. A lot of people are
familiar with Lia, okay? They were very excited to see Lia. Clumps around Lia and Bianca's garages and they're right next to each other. Aurelia Nobels who is supported by Puma is on the other side, kay? Now Aurelia's car was out
getting work done, okay? And then they were going
to be bringing it back. Now again, they had
started pushing us back. I got stuck behind the Lia
crowd, I believe it was her mom, or at the very least, someone
from her team came out with a bunch of signed driver
cards of Lia and shirts and was handing them out one by one. Now they had already started trying to push us back at this point, but again, I could physically not move. (people murmuring)
(car engine roaring) - Move, please!
- A car is coming. - Come on, move, please.
- Okay, I'm trying, trying, trying, trying, trying, trying. Just physically had hands put on me. So that's fun and exciting. They were again trying to
bring Aurelia's car back, okay? And they were just
yelling, move, move, move. And someone was physically
pushing me on my back into the crowd telling me to move. And I'm saying "I'm trying,
I'm trying, I'm trying," and they're pushing me forward, okay. Now, I wanna make it clear I understand how we got to that point. It is fine, I am fine. I don't like having hands
put on me, but it's fine. But I also acknowledge
that how bad the situation and how frustrating the
situation has to get for someone, anyone in these teams to feel like it has to get to a point where they have no choice but to keep me from getting run over to physically put their hands on me. This should not have happened. They should not have gotten to this point. They should have security. There was tons of security in this area. I don't know how well the communication was going at this point. They should have cleared us out. We should not have been in that
paddock area at that point, and again, there needs to be
more just putting up a gate, and being like, "Hey, you guys
can't come back this way." That's not enough. They should have been
physically walking us this way before cars, before trucks,
anything started moving, okay? This point, we should never
have been at this point. So it's fine, everything's fine, okay? But I think that this was, again, a failing on F1 Miami, security, F1 Academy supporting these
teams individually, okay? 'Cause there was a lot happening. There was also, you know,
individual journalists who were doing stories
on like Abbi Pulling or there's all these
other media obligations. During this weekend their
docuseries got announced and so they had filming
crews around constantly. Since there's everything
happening and again, I think this was just
too much way too fast for the teams individually. So I would not be
shocked if for Barcelona, which is the next round
of F1 Academy this year, there is a very drastic change in part and at the request of F1 Academy. This was too much, okay? The access was great, but again, if the access is not contained, if the access is not
communicated, controlled, if the teams themselves are
uncomfortable and worried about spectators being run
over or anything like that or feeling like they can't
do their jobs properly, access has to be revoked for safety, for security, for et cetera. Then there was the driver's
parade, then there was, you know, the Red Bull parachute jump. At its core. I know that
Red Bull is a drink company, but I do feel like
their mission statement, like their company motto is just, "You know what would be super cool." You know what I'm really bored. Maybe I need a daredevil
on my life, anyone single? God, I can't believe I have
to talk about this guy. Anyways, yes, Trump was
at the Miami Grand Prix. He was a guest of McLaren unfortunately. People are mad about
this because Zak Brown openly applauded the FIA
for their stance in 2022, where they essentially banned drivers from making political statements. But apparently a former president and current political candidate, it's totally fine for him to
walk around, make a speech, and wave around a make
America great again hat with the approval of the head
of the FIA and Liberty Media and a team CEO. So love that. That's why people are annoyed. It's time for the Grand Prix. Okay, so for those of you that don't understand what happened, okay, because Lando won, okay, and you're like, oh my
god, how did Lando win? Basically Lando is a G, no I'm kidding. Lando ended up in pole position, and then there was a safety car. Max was in P two and I fully expected that
Max was going to send it after the safety car. I literally texted my friend,
I said, my friend, Anna, who was watching at home, 'cause it was just on screen
somewhere that she was at, and she was like, "Are you
just freaking out right now? What's going on? Like, is this what you
like doing about this?" I'm like, "Yeah, I'm trembling in my seat. I'm having a blast, okay? I love this sport." I fully expected that Max was just going to turn that
rocket ship into Hyperdrive and speed pass Orlando
after the safety car, and then he didn't, and then we heard the radio message saying that he has no
turning abilities basically. He'd also driven over
like a boundary thing, like literally drove through
a little plastic pole thing, and apparently it caused some floor damage that may have led to the
steering and speed issues and all of that. So you know, there was
like a cause and effect. So a lot of the complaints
about the Miami Grand Prix is again the track
layout in and of itself. I think that this worked
really well in the case of the F1 Academy drivers,
because like I said, they have the equivalent
of a Formula 4 car, and people were like, "Oh my god, the speed
difference is crazy." Of course their speed's difference. This is a starter series. They're not going from here to F1. They physically can't, okay? They don't have enough
Super Licence points, plus the cars are physically
smaller and slower. I actually think they have
much better maneuverability for this track because there's quite a
few corners in this track that most of the F1 cars
can't even fully make. It's a bit of a nightmare
track in that regard. Lando wins by like a good four seconds. Is that what it was, am
I remembering correctly? Logan DNFed, Williams, I literally
was like tagging Williams on Instagram, I was
like, what is going on? Because what also happened
with Alex, with that lockup, Alex is a good driver. This season isn't making
it look like that, but like Alex is a good driver. Anyways, that's going to be it. I am excited for the next one
of F1 Academy in Barcelona. I am excited to watch Imola
from my brother's graduation. I will be at the Indy 500
during the Monaco Grand Prix. Maybe I'll be at the Canadian Grand Prix, 'cause a bunch of you
guys think I'm Canadian, which is really funny. Still, I'm gonna go shower, and cover myself in Aloe Vera before my flight in the morning. Were you at the Miami Grand Prix? Did you see me and didn't come and say hi? I met a bunch of you guys this
weekend, which is very fun. I always love meeting
you guys at Grand Prix. This is a really fun part
of the Grand Prix experience for me actually is meeting you guys. Did you see me, and you're like, "No, Amanda's smart enough to
not get a horrific sunburn. That can't be her," I am smart
enough to not get sunburnt. I am just also pale
enough for the Florida sun to not care about all of the sunscreen I'm putting on regularly. Did you check out the F1 Academy paddock? Did you watch the F1 Academy
broadcast this weekend? What did you think of the commentary for the broadcast itself? Are you guys excited
for Barcelona as well? Did you see the race? Are you also excited that
Lando got his first win? What's a sponsor you think Logan Sargeant should get on his helmet? My personal favorite is
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