Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
If your favorite Olympic events are slopestyle, skeleton, and ski jumping, itis definitely for you.
In other words, its nurturing a fandom.
Stories aboutNASCAR, by comparison: 158 total.
The entire field consists of 10 teams and 20 drivers.
Heres a better answer: F1 is a very, very expensive extreme sport.
They do their best not to crash.
The drivers never intend to crash their incredibly expensive cars, but, of course, theydocrash.
They crash in practice, during qualifying laps, and during races.
Sometimes the drivers walk away without a scratch, and sometimes they dont walk away at all.
Got it: Dont crash!
So who is the winner at the end of the season?
But the Constructors Championship is overall a much bigger deal.
I think I saw a headline about one of the teams firing a driver last week.
That sounds like some juicy gossip!It does, but its the result of tragedy.
Season four will debut just as Formula 1 finds itself a part of the global news landscape.
Haas has alsofired one of its drivers, Nikita Mazepin, who is the son of Uralkalis owner.
F1 has canceled the Russia Grand Prix and severed its relationship with the company that promotes that race.
There will be noF1 races in Russia for the foreseeable future.
Well, thats more of a bummer than I was expecting from this otherwise fun explainer.
Can we pivot to the big rivalries of the upcoming season?Absolutely.
The 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix concluded with a genuinely surprising, thrilling, and still-controversial final two laps.
Youre still going to be yelling at the screen when that episode rolls around.
Okay, youve hooked me!
Ginger Spice), and Guenther Steiner, all of whom feature in story lines across the four seasons.
Their intertwined story lines culminate in a terrible shared loss during the 2019 Belgian Grand Prix weekend.
Okay, I feel ready to embrace the wild and woolly ups and downs of this sport!Wonderful!
And welcome to the club youll be delightedly hollering your way through 2022 races in no time.
