The inaugural season of Ready for the Big Time: F1 explored what it would take for Formula One to make the big time in the United States. Now, with an American driver on the grid, an American team and three US GPs, F1 fever has arrived in the US, and in the process, the sport has embraced some distinctly American traits. This season unpacks the Americanization of F1. Host Scott Speed, and co-hosts F1 Toni and Andrew Lawrence, will explore the splashy plans for the Las Vegas GP and Liberty Media’s winning strategy to the rising popularity of F1, ho...
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29 min
Vegas, Baby! Ft. Daniel Ricciardo and Greg Maffei of Liberty Media
Vegas, Baby! How Las Vegas evolved from gambling mecca to sports town Liberty Media is spending half a billion dollars to make the Las Vegas Grand Prix the “event of the year” in a…
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43 min
American Carmakers Bet on F1: Ford is back, but is no stranger to motorsports FT. Scott Speed (host), A.J. Bai…
Earlier this year, Oracle Red Bull Racing and Scuderia AlphaTauri announced a powerplant partnership with Ford Performance, starting in 2026. Meanwhile, Andretti Global is teaming…
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38 min
Girl Power Part 2: Female drivers in F1 ft. Jamie Chadwick, Hazel Southwell and host Scott Speed
"I was always aware that racing could be mixed. If I was gonna compete, it was going to be competing against men. And because I got into it so young, I was so oblivious to being on…
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45 min
Girl Power Part 1: Female content creators are driving the narrative of F1
Young American women are among the biggest drivers of F1’s current popularity boom, and their wide-eyed enthusiasm for the sport is forcing the hidebound male gatekeeper fans of th…
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28 min
Daniel Ricciardo’s love for the Circuit of the Americas (and Austin BBQ)
Just in time for the United States Grand Prix in Austin, season 2 of Ready for the Big Time: F1 opens with an episode recorded at the track, with arguably the most popular figure i…
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3 min
Season 2 Trailer: Ready for the Big Time is BACK
The inaugural season explored what it would take for Formula One to make the big time in the United States. Now, with an American driver on the grid, an American team and three US…
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32 min
The Future is Female
For the season finale of Ready for the Big Time: F1, host Andrew Lawrence considers the road ahead—the future of Formula 1. No, he’s not talking about the engineering or technology…
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35 min
America Takes the Wheel?
We're still stuck on this whole American F1 driver drought thing. This episode explores the era after the Red Bull Driver Search and Scott Speed’s historic and all-too-brief time d…
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42 min
The Search for an American Driver: Scott Speed
What if there was a reality show that sparked US interest in F1? Two decades before Drive to Survive dominated American F1 attention spans, Red Bull engineered a search to find the…
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41 min
Pushing the Limits
Porpoising might be F1’s reining buzzword for 2022, but how did a water animal make it into motorsport? In this episode, host, Andrew Lawrence, breaks down the technology behind F1…
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42 min
The Drive to Survive Effect
There’s no doubt that Formula 1’s popularity is rising in the United States. Much of that awareness is credited to the wildly popular Netflix reality show, Drive to Survive. Host A…
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34 min
F1 Goes to Miami
In this very special episode, the Red Bulletin team went to Miami for the premiere Grand Prix in Magic City. Host Andrew Lawrence speaks with two Red Bull athletes: one is NBA shoo…
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31 min
The Game within the Game
The second episode of the Ready for the Big Time podcast is a Formula One CliffsNotes of sorts. Host Andrew Lawrence dives into F1's surprising American origins, the rules of the r…
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30 min
America's Last F1 Superstar: Mario Andretti
For the pilot episode of Ready for the Big Time: Formula 1, we checked in with America’s last F1 superstar, Mario Andretti, who shared his seemingly improbable story of success, fr…
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2 min
Season 1 Teaser
What’s it going to take for F1 to make the big time in the US? In a new podcast by The Red Bulletin, host Drew Lawrence (Sports Illustrated, Car & Driver) explores the history, peo…