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…Oh, doesn't ever. We might talk about that towards the end of the episode here. Yes, the sport itself is completely insane. It is a grid of 20 drivers competing at over 200 miles per hour in races that last 190 miles. And they do this every week or two in a different city around the world. They load the entire circus, the cars, the teams, the hospitality onto a fleet of seven Boeing 777s between races. And they set up shop in 24 different cities from Monaco to Bahrain to Melbourne, Australia. Each car costs $20 million to make and hundreds of millions of dollars to develop. The cars have three to 600 sensors on them. And shockingly to me as an American, David, I don't know if you knew this before we started researching, it's actually the world's most popular annual sporting series with over 827 million viewers. Yeah, I had no idea until we started researching because we're Americans.…

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