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Why Don't Americans Care About Formula 1? A Statistical Analysis.

How Formula 1 failed in America, and how it's turning things around.

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Daniel Parris
Feb 15, 2023
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“Fast & Furious,” from DALL·E 2.

Intro: Too Fail to Big.

The 2005 American Grand Prix was an unmitigated disaster. At the start of the race, all twenty cars lined up on the grid, but following an initial formation lap, fourteen teams pulled off the road and retired their vehicles in protest of poor track conditions, leaving six drivers to finish the conte…

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