- So, this is probably
gonna be a long one. (sunglasses clatter) That's it. That's my intro. (bubble pops) Hi, I'm Amanda. You're watching "Swell Entertainment," and today we are talking
about the Las Vegas Grand Prix from my Las Vegas hotel
room, at the Flamingo. First off, "why did I go?" Well, I genuinely love F1, and I wanted to go to a Grand Prix, and this was logistically
the closest one to me, being based in Los Angeles. Just kind of made sense,
and then also, you know, first Las Vegas Grand Prix since 1982, I wanna say is the year, they
did that at Caesar's Palaces, which is actually, I'm
looking at it right now. "Why did F1 come to Las Vegas?" Mainly Daniel Ricardo,
I'm kidding, partially, sort of, a little bit. The main reason that I heard they wanted to do a Las Vegas Grand Prix was because they wanted
to further the fandom, the growing fandom, if you
will, of US fans for Formula 1, basically, "Drive to Survive," on Netflix has led to a lot more American fans in F1, not that it's the only thing, okay? But, it's, you know, it's
a catalyst, if you will. And so, they thought that
adding another US race would be a good idea. They currently have Austin,
they have the Miami Grand Prix, which is earlier in the calendar, and now they have the
Las Vegas Grand Prix, which there is, I have been told, a ten year contract in place,
with a three-year opt-out. I believe the opt-out is
kind of a one-way thing, where the City of Las Vegas, Las Vegas F1, that type of thing can say, "Hey we, we don't wanna do this anymore." I believe it's that, which
we'll talk about in a second. As far as like why Vegas
might want to have it here, it's the same reason that
Vegas wants any sporting event to come here. They want this to be a destination, more than just a way station. They want you to come here for things aside from just passing
through on your way to LA, or coming here just to gamble
for your 21st birthday, and drink, and all this stuff. They want you to come for other things, so that you then go,
and gamble, and drink, and, you know, fill up the
hotels and things like that. So, it's a smart move. Frankly, we just saw this, they did this with TwitchCon as well, which I, TwitchCon's not
coming back to Vegas, but that's a whole other
video that I've already done. There's a lot to love about Vegas, and I'm not gonna be one of those people that's gonna sit here and
complain about Vegas as a whole because that's just not who I am. I have debated moving here several times, and I'm sure one day I probably
will end up moving here. I have a bunch of friends
that live out here, so if you are expecting me to sit here, and just like rip into Vegas as a city, I'm just not going to do that. But, a lot of people have
complained about Vegas since it was announced. I also talked about, not
necessarily, you know, the problem with Vegas, you know, as a Grand Prix location in my video, at least, I hope that's
not how it came across. I was concerned with the
construction that I was seeing, and the speed at which they were doing it, and the starting too late in
the calendar, in my opinion, for building everything, and that's pretty much what my last video about the construction
for the Grand Prix was. The complaints that have been around Vegas for the Grand Prix, for the most part, have been, I don't know, I've seen the response go back and forth. I've always thought that the criticism was "why is there a third race in the US?" I completely disagree with the rhetoric that there needs to be another one. Stop, as an American. I
am telling you, stop it. Especially 'cause these are
some of the more expensive ones in the calendar. (laughs) Also, the that Vegas was just
going to be a big spectacle, and not about the sport,
the driving itself, the racing itself. And so, announcing the opening ceremony, and the amount of fans
that were gonna be there, the musical lineup, all of that, it was criticized pretty
heavily, immediately. Which is always so funny
to me because then people, it's like, well the people that matter aren't the ones complaining. It's like, well you got the drivers, and you got your established fan base, you got them complaining. So, who matters to you? I'm just curious. Investors, I get it, it's a business. At the end of the day,
this sport is a business, and so a lot of this I can
just be like, "Oh, money!" You know, so much of it
can come down to that. But, you know, you guys don't make money if no one's attending,
if no one's, you know, buying the merch, if no one's, you know, tuning in to watch the GPs. So, let's explain how I was able to go. I love F1, and my dad loves Vegas. He loves Vegas so much, he
is on a first name basis with his slot host for the casinos, okay? He comes here a lot, spent
a undisclosed-to-me amount, but it's enough that his slot
host gave us this hotel room, five nights, comped. And, we overlooked the track. We got our tickets for
Thursday and Friday night, also through the slot host as well. Originally we just got
tickets to Thursday, and my dad didn't understand
why I was frustrated (laughs) by that. I was like, "Okay, well I'm
gonna go and buy a ticket for Saturday then." And, he was like, "what you, we we're gonna see like time trials." I was like, "No, we're gonna
see practice, thank you. But also, I'm gonna buy
myself a ticket to the race. So, the slot host was funny, 'cause she was, like, all
excited to call and tell us, which is very sweet to have
this comped, it was very nice, I'm not complaining about
the comp tickets whatsoever. I wanna make that abundantly clear. She was like, "Why does
everyone wanna go Saturday? Why is everyone asking
for Saturday tickets?" I was like, "'Cause that's
one of the race is." And, that's so funny to me because this is something that
I saw with Miami, as well. This is not in relation to
the slot host in general, but like there's so many,
'cause the slot host thing, that was done meticulously,
that was, like, unless you have lost over
$200,000 to a casino, you are not getting a Saturday ticket. And, I had that specifically
told to me by another slot host when I went in, and I was like, "Do you guys just have any tickets? I will buy them off of
you." And they said "no." But, my point is is that
there's a lot of companies, like, brand deals and things like that, brand trips that try and
capitalize on the growing fandom in the US for F1, and the
trendiness of it, if you will, and don't do the bare minimum research. And, then you have content creators that they're inviting to events, but they're only giving
them Thursday tickets, or they're having them fly out on Sunday, the day of the race, and all this stuff. And, it's like, "Of course
people are mad at you." I ended up just buying
myself a last minute ticket to the similar grandstand
where I was before, in PG2. And, for me, with the fees and all of
that through Ticketmaster, it was $1,600 for the race. Luckily, I can afford that. Luckily, I make good money on YouTube. Luckily, I love F1 and
I wasn't gonna miss this whether I was making a video or not. I wasn't gonna miss that,
but that is ridiculous. Now, that is a last minute ticket, but even the cheaper tickets
were not for the race night. The thing about the opening ceremony that I think was done really poorly on the part of F1 Las Vegas, was that they did not make it clear enough who got access to the opening
ceremonies, and who did not. And, I had talked to
a few people who said, "Oh yeah, I went, because
when I got my ticket I saw that it said that I had access to the opening ceremony," based on which grandstands
you were in, okay? It was specific spots you had access to, to the opening ceremonies. But, I don't think they
publicized that enough, because I didn't even see that, until like probably a day
or two before the event. Now, I don't think my ticket
would have gotten me in, because the end of the
hairpin is where we were, PG2, and so I don't think that
would've gotten us in, but, I'm not certain. what ended up happening,
and how I was able to attend the Wednesday night opening
ceremony in the paddock club with my dad as my plus one,
was I met Tony, F1 Tony, okay, from TikTok, at the Netflix Cup. We passed by each other, and I was like, "Oh yeah, I've seen you on
TikTok," all this stuff. We talked for a little bit. About 5:00 PM she messaged
me, and she was like, you're on TikTok right? I'm with the Aston
Martin team, and TikTok, and they wanna know if
you and a plus one, like, wanna come tonight." (taps microphone excitedly) "Yes!" So, they messaged me, we get talking, and I basically had about
30-ish minutes, if that, to get from my hotel to the
proper gate to go and meet Kate from Aston Martin, with my dad, so that we could go and get
our little paddock passes, and go on into the paddock
club with Aston Martin. So, shout out Toni, go
check her out on YouTube, go check out on TikTok, go
check her out on everything, okay, for being a real one. So, I did a little review of
the Paddock club over on TikTok and basically that's where we were for the opening ceremonies. They fed us, there was good food in there. Basically, I was right
behind 30 seconds to Mars. Honestly, while I was there. As far as an opening ceremony goes, I think this was the best
case scenario for Vegas, because I fully was expecting
a cheese fest, a mess, these guys to be like, "I'm
gonna kill whoever decided," like, I thought they
were gonna jump Daniel by the end of it. I fully thought that that's
what we were walking into, and instead, I think that
this was a fairly tight, fairly successful, opening ceremony. Pretty much everyone did one song, they never went over three minutes, and they just kept it moving. The way they used these, like,
electric screen motor homes were pretty solid, I think
they utilized them pretty well. And, then to have the teams go, and just do a little, yes,
"Hunger Games-" esque, come up, come down, all this stuff. Yes, it's goofy, okay? But, I think it's better than
having the guys walk down the center aisle while these
musical artists are performing, and they're being announced one by one with their faces on the
screens behind them, as they're walking down, or what have you. So, Kate had been like, "Hey if you hang out
for a little bit, like, I would love to be able to
bring you down to the garage, and show you the Aston Martin garage. Love it. Went down there, did a whole
review of that as well, all on TikTok, okay? 'Cause this was a partnership with TikTok, so I made sure to focus on
TikTok content for this, because they were the ones that made it so that I was able to get this ticket. I don't believe I ever actually
met anyone from TikTok. while I was there though. I think it was just the Aston Martin team that I met while I was there. But, thank you to Aston Martin
and TikTok for having me and letting me be goofy as hell. First Formula 1 Grand Prix, and this is also the
first Las Vegas Grand Prix in literal decades, okay? Gotta come check this
out, this has been insane. The Aston Martin garage has been great. The entire Aston Martin
team has been so awesome. So, thank you so much for having me. So, my dad had no idea
that free practice 2 was supposed to start
at about 12/12:30 AM, once free practice 1 abruptly ended. He was like, "I'm gonna go." I said, "I don't blame you, it's fine. I'm gonna stay, I'm not gonna leave." Basically, we get there, we get food. The food situation, it's funny, 'cause I've been seeing people
post about the food situation on TikTok, and things like that. The food was free, it
was part of your ticket so it was included in
your ticket, essentially. Which I do think was a smart move, because I fully went in
there expecting to spend a small fortune on food
for the Grand Prix. And so, to have that at
least comped was nice. Also comped was Liquid Death
and non-alcoholic drink. I was in the Red Bull
Fan Zone, essentially, it's where our seats were,
and that's not what we picked, which some people were like "Oh, you guys got the
worst seats," whatever. I liked where we were, we
were at the end of turn one. I saw the drama during
the actual Grand Prix that was like right at that corner. So, I was happy with
where I was, but I get it. I wanted to see more racing as well. But, that was never
going to be a possibility for the most part, with where
the grandstand were set up for pretty much most of the track. I think the only people
who saw a good amount of actual racing, would be
the people on the strip, and then the various people
that were actually in like, random popups for different casinos, and then the people
that climbed up on roofs and parking garages, and things like that. You guys got good views But, we were basically
in the Red Bull Fan Zone, and my main complaint with this area is that you guys had no
outdoor heaters, none. I made friends with some
employees, and they were like, "yeah, we think that this
was planned very last minute, because the Heineken area, the other side, the East Harmon zone, through
the tunnels and all of that, which we'll talk about
in a second, as well, they had space heaters. They had heat, you know? So, it was, like, freezing where we were, and it was like really dim,
there wasn't a lot of light. Originally, we didn't really
know where else we could go. So, we ended up just
going back to our seats and hanging around and waiting
for free practice 1 to start. We were in row three so really far down, and then free practice started, and then the potholes,
whole situation started. Now Kim Ulman does get
credit for predicting this. Pre the Las Vegas Grand Prix, as well, he talked about how the manhole covers are usually welded down
for street circuits, and that he wasn't sure if they
were going to be doing that and if that was going to be a problem. Sure enough, it ended up being a problem. - [Announcer] We watched as
a Ferrari of Carlos Sainz pulled to a stop, just at the top of the Las
Vegas strip straightaway, there you see the car being
taken behind the wall, and at the top of the screens
you can see that the stewards have declared the practice
session will not be resumed. - I had a feeling that this
was going to be a problem already for the us night-of,
that this was an indicator that this was going to be,
kind of, the nature of things for the night, was the FIA said that it
was a loose manhole cover, it was like a water drain cover basically, for like an access point, that the concrete reed
around it had failed, and that they had determined
that that issue did exist and was a potential issue
of existing, as well, throughout other places in
the track for the strip, I believe, specifically, and that they needed to remedy those. But, then when F1 Las
Vegas made a statement, they said that one manhole
cover had been discovered as being the problem, and
that it's being fixed, and they're working on
fixing this one problem. On one hand, again, business. You don't wanna acknowledge
that the problem's bigger than it actually is, but I
never think it's a good idea when the company entity,
and the essential, like, governing body entity, the
official entity of something are giving out conflicting statements. I don't think that's a good idea. I don't think that's a good
sign of things to come. Finally they said like, "oh yeah, 2:00 AM, we're gonna have free
practice to start up again." And, it's like, "okay, great." And, it's funny 'cause
as I was walking around between East Harmon zone,
the Red Bull Fan Zone, and the other East Harmon
Zone, the Heineken Zone, I saw one of the manhole
covers on the ground with, like, what looked
like a dollop of concrete on top of it, and I was like,
"no wonder a Formula 1 car sucked this thing up, (laughs) and just, like." (makes splat noise) They finally put on the announcement that the free practice 2
would commence at 2:00 AM. So, it's already, like, around midnight, around this point, 12:30-ish. At about 1:28/1:29:00 AM
an announcement comes on letting us know that they will
be closing all the fan zones at 1:30 AM, "Have a nice
night, see you later." And, it's, like, "what does that mean?" - [Announcer] We've made the determination that we will be closing all
Las Vegas Grand Prix fan areas at 1:30 AM Pacific time. We look forward to welcoming
fans back later today. - [Amanda] Is that not right now? - [Announcer] For signing free practice 3, and qualifying session sessions - Isn't it 1:30 right now? For a second, what we
initially thought it was, because even the marshals
in front of me were like, "Wait, what does that mean?" Was that it just meant that
we had to stay in our seats, that the fan zones,
like the other side of, like outside of the
grandstand and all of that, that those were closing. And so, it's like, "okay, you're not gonna be
able to get food or alcohol, but you can stay in your seat." And so, I was like, I'm
just gonna stay in my seat. So, we just got a message saying that they'll be closing
the Las Vegas fan areas at 1:30 AM. It is currently 1:30 AM, I'm sitting here, I'm not getting up, because
they are doing FP2 at 2:00 AM. So, it's a little bit of a vague message. I'm not getting up. I felt really bad, 'cause there
was this girl and her mother and the daughter was probably
13/14, so excited to watch it. Her mom was like, "Yeah,
I'm here with her tonight. Her dad's here with her
tomorrow, she loves it." And, she was just like dozing off, trying so hard to stay awake
to watch the free practice, and then suddenly, "get out." (laughs) So, basically what's happening
now is the employees, that are working the fan
zones and guest services, and all of that, we're only
scheduled till a certain time, so they can't let them go
until all of us are gone. So, we can stay technically
but then they have to stay. I gotta dip, 'cause I don't think that's
fair to the employees to make them stay, just so I
can watch pre-practice, too. I don't like the statement that they made. I'm glad they made a statement, and I hate that there's been
a lot of, like, speculation about, like, again, I've talked
about how this is a business and all this stuff. It's like, "oh well you can't say sorry, you can't give apologies, because then that's an
admittance of guilt." Yes, it is. They've asked us all to leave, as you can see everyone's
clearing up behind me, and honestly I can't blame them because the employees
can't leave until we leave, and obviously this is all delayed. I don't think there
was another option here for the employees, because they're only
paid to a certain time, they're only scheduled to a certain time, and they have to come back tomorrow. The only thing that makes
sense for why they kept us till they did, and waited that
long to give us the notice, because you know when your
employees are scheduled to, you know when it's time to leave. You can't tell me that someone
didn't come and tell you, "hey, we only have the
employees until this time." I get it. You're trying to get things saying, "We're just gonna do it till this, we're gonna do it till that," like, and if there is that
type of communication issue where like, you were learning
that half of your workforce, if not 90% of your
workforce for your fan zones have to clock out at a certain time, or you have to pay them over time, which you were never gonna do, frankly, let's be realistic here. It's either a complete and
utter breakdown of communication or you knew and decided to
wait until the last minute. The breakdown of communication is an issue within your company, you
need to fix that, entirely. That's on you, and people
have a right to be pissed if you're running your
business like a lemonade, don't, no, lemonade stands
around better than that. I can't even say that
that's a lemonade stand, 'cause the two people standing
there working it together can talk to each other. Whoever's making lemonade
inside is probably coming out and being like, "Oh my god
you guys, were out of lemons, (gasps) we're out of cups, oh no, we have to go get more cups." You know there's probably
more communication in the lemonade stand, set up by toddlers. If it's that, which I don't believe, I still think that the reason they kept it as long as they did, is because
they wanted alcohol sales. That's my personal opinion,
I think that's what it was. I think they wanted to keep
people there as long as possible so they could try and make up some money. And, I think people
are allowed to be upset when you give us until the last minute. Forget it being unfair to fans, and the fans that paid money. I'm not even talking about
myself in that regards. I'm just someone that's
stuck around, essentially. It's not fair to your employees because then they have
to deal with the brunt of your poor planning, and they have to deal with
the brunt of the backlash, and the anger, and that is
not fair to the employees who are just there to do their job. So, it's also not fair
on the part of the fans to snap at employees
and go up to, you know, the people just trying
to help, and you know, be like "Okay, well where's
my refund?" things like that. That's not fair to the employees, as well. So, you guys bungled this,
you bungled Thursday night, you did. The end. Two things can be true at the same time. You can be a fan of
F1, and love the sport, and still be frustrated with
how the Vegas Grand Prix has been handled, or how it was conducted, or the circuit looking like
spider pig on the ceiling. You can have those
opinions, that's allowed. You're allowed to complain
about things, it's okay. Day two, we had FP2. No one, you know, lost the
undercarriage of their car. It's funny 'cause I was,
like, sitting there, and I was tired, and I was obviously cold. My dad came closer to about
eight, like, right before, you know, FP2 started,
and he kept being like, "Are you having fun? Are you
good? Like, what's wrong?" Whatever, and I was like,
"Why is he asking me that? Like, I don't get it." And, then I realized what it was was. What that, for my dad, this
was just like a fun cool event. That's what this was for him. He just got to go to an event,
and see cars going fast, and be super close to the cars. For me, it's like, I'm rooting for these, you know, fast boys, and
they are giving me anxiety, and I'm stressed out by
the safety of this track, and I'm stressed out by,
you know, (laughs) the cold, but I want them to do well,
and now I'm panicking. And so, he just saw me
going into, like, the focus, (giggles) the fan focus
mode of being anxious, and he's not used to seeing me like that, because I don't care about
most sports. (laughs) But, then I was telling
him, like, the other day, I was telling him today, I was
like "yeah, I just realized it's like, yeah, I've
never told you, like, when you're watching a
Houston Astro Games, like, "are you having fun?" I'm kidding. He doesn't actually
like the Houston Astros, he actually hates it. That was a little shout out for him, 'cause I know it's like,
he'll text me about that later when he watches this. He'll be like, "you said I
like the Houston Astros!" He hates them, but when he
is watching a baseball game or whatever, you know I'm
not sitting there being like, "Are you having fun?" You know? 'Cause of course not, 'cause
he is watching the game, you know? So, it's the same thing. Bumped into the employees that
I met the night before, again and I really wanna make this
abundantly clear, as well, because before going into Friday, they had made it very clear that if there was any scheduling issues, if things did have to change, that they had staggered
the employees to come in at certain times so that there
would be no risk of, like, "okay, everyone has to
clock out at this point," type of thing, okay? So that was good, but I went
and talked with the girls that I had met the night
before, and they were like, "yeah, no. You gotta know, like, things are so much better tonight. Like, the communication is better. They have us over here,
they had put their booth, they were part of,
like, the Heineken Zone, like one of the Heineken booths. They had like been in a
really bad spot before. They put them in a
better spot, where like, "we're in a such better spot,
people keep bringing us food." I had been bringing them
food the night before because I knew all the
food was gonna go bad, because they can't just
keep the food overnight. They have to, it's like
made fresh, it's hot, it's, they're making it back there. And so, they were like,
can you go grab us food? 'Cause it was free for me, so I just went, and kept bringing them
food, and so they were like, "Everyone keeps bringing
us food, it's really nice." I wanna make that abundantly clear that like the employees
that I met the night before, had been really adamant about how much better things
were run for night two. Which is important to note, because it's always important to note when, yes, night one was a mess, and we can still acknowledge
that things were a mess, but an effort was made to
try and correct the mess. And, besides, if for someone like me, I trust the employees more
than I trust the organizers at that point. And, the employees are telling me that things are being run better, that's what I'm gonna listen to. Qualifying happens, and
then McLaren is out in Q1, but then Williams gets to Q3. It was crazy in the crowds that night. It definitely thinned
out a lot for qualifying, which I figured was the case. It's just a late night, which is the thing that
I think people were like, "oh yeah, no one's there," like they didn't sell a lot of tickets, they did sell a good amount of tickets. The reality is is that
these were late nights, and like they were late
nights for anybody, any of us who, like, stayed
up for, tried to get to FP2, we were all exhausted. I'm shocked I made it as
late as I did for qualifying. Same with, like, last
night for the actual race. We'll talk about it in a second. I fell asleep during
the race at one point. I was exhausted. You know, I get it Vegas,
city never sleeps, but like, you know, people have lives, we're not always used to
being nocturnal, okay? Not everyone's 20, and I say
that as somebody who's 26. But, it was a cool crowd
experience to see, you know, everyone's excitement
over Logan, you know, qualifying where he did, that was great. I was still very worried
about that hairpin turn. I was worried about that, because I just kept seeing, specifically, the AlphaTauris overcorrecting, and I believe the Hoss guys, as well. There was a lot of
overcorrecting in that turn, like jerking really quickly,
and that stressed me out. So, I was worried. Day of the race, about 5:00 PM, I just went in and bought my ticket. It was in the same
grandstand that I was before, because I was basically
attached to this zone, but I had made friends
with the flag marshals, and I wanted to keep my buddies with me. So, I figured it was a
good spot to stay in. And, again, I thought
something bad was gonna happen at turn one. Frankly less bad happened at turn one than I thought it did,
because I fully thought that we were gonna lose
at least three cars in that first turn,
frankly, right at the start. That's what I was expecting. The Cirque Du Soleil show
that they did before the race itself, was interesting to say the least. I don't know, I just, and I
like Vegas, I like these shows, you know, but I'm also
like, "Do we need it now, because what am I here for? I'm here for a race,
I'm not here for Vegas." I think the organizers
were, kind of, like, "Okay they're here for Vegas,
we want them here for Vegas. F1 is how we're gonna
get them here for Vegas. And, I think that that was a mistake. I think that there was a bit of a jumbling of what this could have
been, and what it was. I'm not shocked that
they had a red carpet, but I do think it was silly. Celebrities can be fans of F1, too, okay. We're not, that's not the point of this, but making such a big deal
about them being a fans of it. Is it because you want
their fans to also like F1, or because you want their fans to just come to the Vegas Grand Prix, in the hopes that they're
going to meet Paris Hilton. I should have used a different example, aside from Paris Hilton, because Paris Hilton was
literally there with Hilton, and Hilton sponsors McLarens obviously, they wanted one of the Hiltons there, so that was a bad example,
but you get my point. Is it supposed to add to
the glitz and glamour? I guess, yes, because like, oh look at these fabulous
celebrities that love F1, but then so many of these
celebrities don't love F1, they just like the opportunity
to get a good photo, you know, which is the case with most of the current
rhetoric for celebrity, and influencers, and all of that. And hey I got photos in the
pit lane, I did that, fully. Fully admit it, I did
that, that was fun for me. It's, like, kind of like adding
the layers to this sandwich of this is a spectacle,
not a sport, type of thing. That's the, sport, got like a few layers, and then spectacle, Scooby-Doo would not be
able to fit the sandwich in his mouth, that's what
we're looking at over here for, like, another one on the pile. Maybe some bacon, some cheese,
you know some, and maybe, oh let's get spicy, let's
throw some brioche on there. You know, let's get spicy with it. That's such a weird comparison, I'm tired. And, then it was time for the Grand Prix, so I ended up grabbing a
Amex American Express radio. Here you go. I don't remember when I grabbed this. These were tuned to, I believe,
the Sky Sports broadcast. during the Grand Prix, I had
these things in the entire time mainly because during qualifying
I was getting frustrated with the announcers, because
they just kept drilling home the point that, "oh my god,
look at the Vegas strip. Isn't that, that's a beautiful
picture. That's amazing." It's like, "zoom in on the fricking cars! Please, show us the
cars, show us the racing. The amount of times they cut, to show, like, the Paris Hotel, you know, the the layout of the strip. I was like, "I get it, we're
in Vegas, I know, I'm here. Show us the cars, show us
the overtaking attempts. Show us who is struggling
on various corners. That is what I wanna know.!" And so, listening to this was great, because that was basically, they were just talking about the racing, and they barely mentioned
Vegas, like at all. It was wonderful. So, that was preferred, that was good. And also, the broadcast that
they had on site was delayed. This wasn't. Turn one happens, and Fernando
does a little about face, runs into Bottas. Max and Charles have
their little collision. I don't think you need me
to give you a play by play, for the actual race itself. I think you can watch the Grand Prix. I don't think that's why you're here, is to hear me just talk
about the race itself. I will say that being
in the crowd for this, and seeing Charles and
P2, and all of that, and just hearing the energy from the crowd for when the drivers
did different overtakes, or Logan started came
through, and things like that. That was really cool, and that
was a really fun experience to be able to scream with everyone, and to be able to scream
at the McLaren voice to drive faster. Obviously Orlando crashed, basically I believe it's been determined that he hit a bump in the road that caused his car to bottom out, and for him to lose control of the car, scary as shit. Glad he is okay. That was a lot of sparks,
that looked terrifying. It was scary in the moment there, because it was all of a sudden like, "oh there's a car in the
barrier," and you look over, and the car looks from
the angle they gave us, just looked crumpled. It was
like, "what the just happened?" The crowd when Charles
overtook Checo in the last lap was crazy. - [Announcer] And, for them to do that, what they wanted to do was back up. (audience cheers) - [Amanda] Woo! Yeah!
(shouts enthusiastically) (sports announcer speaks rapidly) (race cars whoosh) I don't know, I always get
mad at, like, the video because that's where I
wanna go to a Grand Prix where I have a little more
view of the track itself because your guys'
camera angles, (giggles) the selection of of shots you guys get, don't show me what I wanna see. (laughs) Overall, the race itself
was a fairly good race. Glad Land is okay, but it was funny 'cause at
the end people were like, "yeah I guess they proved everyone wrong, 'cause they gave us a good race." Aside from people saying that
the track itself looked ugly, it looks like an upside
down pig, the straights, things like that, people were
worried about for various cars like the Mercedes, and seeing,
you know, you guys struggled during, you know FP1,
seeing the safety car, even, the footage that they shared
for, like, the first track, the first car on the closed circuit, to release that safety car footage, and show that even the
safety car was missing turns at a certain point. People were worried
about things like that, but the main complaints
for the Vegas GP was not, "this is gonna be a boring race, the circuit's going to be boring." It was, "you guys are focusing
too much on the spectacle, and not enough on the racing." So, the fact that this
ended up being a good race was a point for them, yes, but that doesn't erase everything else. Let's be realistic here, because they made sure
that we didn't forget about anything else, because they made sure
that we were all there for everything else, you get my point? Like, they elevated everything else. The racing was just kind of like, "okay guess we're racing now." And, even then it was like, once the, you know, race is done, like, "stay in your seats, there will not be a
storming of the track," and then they kept saying, like, "Oh, and more musical
artists, and more things, and all of this, they're
coming to you," all this stuff, and it's like, "Okay." The complaints were that in
the grand scheme of things, the race itself was felt to
be like a commercial break with, you know, the musical
acts and everything else, you know, to be the the focus of things. So, that was the major complaints. No one knew what type of
race this was going to be. I was worried for a variety
of reasons, and frankly, I don't think I was wrong to be worried, because we had various
other issues on the track, including, you know, what
happened with Carlos, and then what happened with
Lando, and then it was like, "Oh yeah, stick around, there's gonna be more musical artists." And, then there, like, wasn't. There was like a DJ or something, again, which it's like, "Okay," we left. And, they started escorting
out us out anyway, so I like, I dunno if there was
just a miscommunication with the announcers or something, but they made it sound like
there was gonna be, like, several musical artists,
and there just weren't. Would I go to another Vegas Grand Prix? Yes, because I love the sport, and also because I would
be very interested to see how they, you know, course correct, because, I think, what I really
wanted someone to ask Max, which as far as I can tell, no one did. Before, now he left Vegas, because he won. Of course he did, which is hilarious. I wish that someone would've
asked him , "In your opinion, how do you think Vegas can
tweak this in the future for future races, for fans, and for the drivers to be
more comfortable driving here, to be less frustrated and annoyed? What would you like to see
change in the future years?" Because, I think what Vegas
needs to really focus on now is one, how long it takes
them to take down, you know, the temporary track bits
on the street circuit and all of that. Where the paddock building
and all of that is, that's part of the current lot. That lot is now owned by F1,
that's a year-round location, that's the year round track section. Apparently, they have plans
to use it for other things, or at least Vegas does. Would be fascinated to
see what that might be. The only thing I can think
of is events like CES because those are all over Vegas for CES, the Consumer Electronics Show. I'm assuming that maybe you could, like, rent out the different rooms, that's a massive paddock
space and all of that, but everything else
they're gonna take down. So, they've already started taking down a lot of the temporary
track around on the strip. I'd be interested to see
how long it takes them to take everything down entirely. And, I hope that they learned so much from the setup process of this. Obviously, first year is
getting started, all of that, which we can still complain about, while acknowledging that
it's the first year, and there's growing pains, you know? The two things can be
true at the same time, because I really think
that for the future of F1, in Las Vegas, they really need to focus on not upending the lives of the locals as much as they have currently. I don't like the comments that
I've been seeing from F1 fans that aren't in Vegas, about
Vegas locals complaining. I don't know, how do I teach
someone to have empathy for other humans, when they
clearly don't have any, when people are losing their jobs, because they can't get to work on time, because the construction is
adding an extra two hours to their commute, when they
weren't planning on that? That's a problem. People having to, you know,
plan extra time to get to work and then they're not being compensated for that extra time spent in the car. They're not being compensated
for that time, that gas money, they're not being compensated for that. 'Cause that's the thing,
it's like, there are people, there are condos on the strip, there are places where
people live down here, but for the most part, Vegas
locals don't live here. They work here. And, that's for the most
part, what's being upended, and that's something that
should not be ignored, or just looked down on. It's like, "well you live in Vegas," And people live in Paris, and LA, and Anaheim where Disneyland is, people live around Disneyland. I hope for the future,
you guys start setting up earlier in the calendar year, and that you guys
streamline it a lot more, and try and make it so that
this is not so upending for the locals, because
I think what might happen if this continues to be a burden, because I talked about this
in my other video as well, where about this being a trickle
up, and not a trickle down as far as the local economy
goes for F1 being here, I worry about the possibility
of when the three year, you know, out clause is coming up, it's not so much that
Vegas itself, you know, F1 Vegas or what have you, was like, "okay this is actually
isn't a net positive for us, we should stop this now." Employees, hospitality
employees, locals, what have you, start striking and protesting to be demanded to take off the calendar, because you haven't remedied
how this affects them every single year. I think that that's something
to really think about in the long term, because we have a 10
year contract in place, and I think that that's
something that should not, I don't know why, I don't get
why there's so much hostility. The locals are simply
saying, "This sucks for us." These people are being awful about it, like, why can't we talk about this? Why can't we have these conversations and try and fix how the locals
are feeling about things. I just don't understand why that's seemingly an insane
statement for fans to hear. They were never gonna make
their money back in one year, and they shouldn't have tried. They should have made this
event, in my opinion, honestly, as accessible as possible. Local fans, traveling fans, all of that. And, I don't think that they did that, and I think that that was, just, kind of, starting them from behind to begin with. So, I hope in the future
they really make strides, they've learned from this,
and learned what, like, what needs to be adjusted as
far as, like, the setup goes, and the planning goes, and all of that, to try and make this as
less disruptive as possible. I get it, it's Formula
1, the cars are loud, there's always gonna be
some form of disruption, but it's the the lead up for months that needs to be addressed
more than anything else. That's what will, really,
for me, for next year, really, kind of, be an indicator for me, as like, how much did they
actually learn from this year. That's really it. "Will I go to another Grand
Prix?" Absolutely. (giggles) I have plans for next year. A few of you guys want me to review some of the international
ones, so we'll see. Which I do think I'm gonna go regardless whether I do a video on
it or not I will be going. Glad this is done. Glad I got to see, you
know, Charles get second. I'm glad I got to see some good, there was a good amount of
overtaking on this track, which I do think you know was good. I was worried, I'll fully
admit, I was way more worried about this track. I was think I was right to be
worried, because obviously, you know, not what I thought
was gonna fail, failed. I was worried about the road
but not in the way that I think that I should have been
worried about the road. I was worried about, you
know, the temporary track bits and things like that, which it ended up just
being the cement blockades, the same thing that they
were using, which is good. I don't know some of those wall clippings, that some people did stress
me out too, so I don't know. I'm just an anxious person, and so I probably chosen the wrong sport to be obsessed with. That's going to be it. Did you watch the Vegas Grand Prix? Were you at the Vegas Grand Prix? Remember, I have a podcast, "The Swell Entertainment Podcast." Remember, Swell Entertainment
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