the truth about F1 Miami

This week I further fed my Formula 1 addiction by going to Florida for the third year of the Miami Grand Prix. I especially wanted to go this GP because this was round 2 of F1 Academy, the all female junior series. Let's talk F1 Academy, paddock politics, bad commentary, and whether all this extra fluff is worth the money for race fans.

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[SocarellaDeToussaint]

When Amanda turned into a Cars character and won the race.

[ghostinthesauce]

Wonder if those F1 Academy comentators would make sexist comments on the 50 trillion times Carlos, Charles, Lando and Fernando fix their hair during interviews. Rewatch them, all they do is fuss with their hair because like Swell said, it's hot and your hair gets messed up.

Bob Varsha, Jon Massengale, and Jonathan Green never competed in their life in motosports. They're old ass men watching young people do everything they wish they could, and they sounded bitter as fuck about it.

[leemiles]

Abbi Pulling also became the first woman to win a British Formula 4 race at the weekend as well so a good week for her

[Emh]

Do I give even a singular shit about F1. No, not even a little. Have i watched like 4 hours of F1 content from Amanda. Yes, Yes i have

[Jelly-Ze-Fish]

As a fellow F1 Girly… PLEASE KEEP MAKING THESE AFTER EVERY RACE!!! I feel like there’s no female F1 YouTube commentators and I love the way you covered the Vegas, Suzuka, and Miami GP. ❤
Clarification: I don’t mean to go to every race, just you covering the Swellnanigans that go on at the GPs 👉🏼👈🏼

[nafsrsrchgrl]

Not a racing fan but as a women's hockey fan for over a decade, watching Amanda run into all the stupid ways women's sports get treated, is darkly funny. From making it hard for fans to get to, to having condescending, ill-informed commentators and media, to not advertising the events properly... it's all so fucking familiar. (Maybe check out a PWHL game next season, Swell. It's such a huge step up in what things were like even last year I keep tearing up at games.)

[mikaylasirovatka]

So I'm REALLY into women's sports, esspecially basketball (it's debatable whether it's unhealthy at this point but whatever) and the lack of support for F1 Academy at this moment in women's sports history is SUCH a bone-headed move. Like, in the last year alone a new women's pro hockey league and a pro volleyball league have been created, the pro soccer league has two new expansion teams with plans to add more in the next few years, the pro basketball league is also planning to add 4 teams by 2028 and is starting their season literally tonight and viewership is expected to skyrocket, the women's college basketball final got more views than the men's final and was the most watched basketball game since 2019. Women's sports is blowing up right now and at this point, any league/sports organization that doesn't recognize that is stupid not to jump in.

[Jen-rcxv]

I love that I'm getting defensive over the F1 Academy drivers after seeing Swell get frustrated! The only knowledge of F1 I get is from this channel but now I'm invested in seeing the F1 academy racers get their time in the spotlight

[LPSRosyYT]

Also, the fact that F1 academy doesn’t have any official merch is outrageous!!!

[its_clean]

In my understanding, part of the reason it was a mess is because the management of these events is also a mess of different organizations: FIA, FOM/F1 itself, F1 Academy, Miami GP, and Hard Rock are all separate entities with different responsibilities (sometimes overlapping) for various aspects of race promotion, venue security, event programming, broadcasting, onsite and televised commentary, etc. Not sure who dropped the ball here- could literally be all of them to various degrees- but 100% agreed on the disappointment in the way F1 Academy was promoted and presented, and especially in the embarrassing commentary.

I'm an old school, male F1 fan from the Schumacher and Vettel days, but I'm a big fan of F1 Academy whose only complaint is that they should be doing even more to prepare the drivers for F1 (cars need more power and more aero). I'm a big fan of Bianca, Lia, and Abbi, they're all brilliant drivers and excellent role models who deserve to be treated better by the race organizers and the media. Eagerly awaiting the day when we see them on the F1 grid!

[deanneb]

The Vegas mistakes, while idiotic, could be written off as the expected growing pains during an event’s first year. But Miami has had a few years to work out the kinks, there’s no excuse at this point

[mayonaise]

20:45 "If i say what i want to, I'm going to be arrested" Ain't that a mood and a half for so many situations

[Toyoda]

Long time watcher. First time commenter.
All drivers “fix” their hair after a race. That commentator was on one.

[nhldecker]

After hearing about how crazy American F1 fans can be, I would love to see you attend the Waste Management Phoenix Open. As someone who grew up with ties to the golf industry and PGA, the WM situation and it's culture has always seemed... downright insane to me when you compare it to almost every other tour event.

[putriddivine]

as someone who prefers rally you are my main source of F1 info and i love that

[Arctrooper]

Amanda is slowly becoming an F1 youtuber. A year from now it's just gonna be exclusively F1 videos.

[neverthere]

So disappointing about the drivers academy. That commentary bit makes me sick. My wife got a picture with Marta Garcia last year at COTA. So much potential there i wish more people would pay attention to it

[SisiAvellana]

2:57 I love so much how transparent Amanda is. I seriously do trust her reviews way more than anyone else’s, I know that she won’t hold back. Yay, SWELL!

[Echo-cxgk]

I'd love your take on the Andretti drama. Teams trying to cap the number of teams on the grid to 10 as opposed to 12, congress getting involved, and Andretti just moving along like they have a spot reserved already.

[meinakay]

I've gotten more into F1 and I'm so glad you're already deep in it because I love hearing your takes/reviews, and when I saw McLaren's special visitor on top of the whole weekend itself, I couldn't wait to hear your thoughts 🥴