David Rosenthal: evaluation

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…It's more akin to a boxing or UFC with this sort of a competition happens in a place at a time. It's not anybody's sort of home stadium. There's a promoter. But this has 10 teams, not two fighters. And they have $300 million race cars. With 1,000 person teams behind it, I was going to make the point earlier in the episode that it'd be like if the equipment manager and an NFL team was the most important person on the team and had 800 people who worked for him or her. I can't imagine any other sport that is anywhere near as complex as this. And so you've had this crazy history as a result, but it's still been durable because nobody else could pull all of these disparate parties together in the way that Formula 1 has managed to. The activation energy to do something similar than this is prohibitively insane.…

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