Hello, it's Katie Osborne here. Welcome to a special mini F1 Explains with my teammate, Christian Hugo and some very special guest Christian. Very special guest indeed Katie a couple of weeks ago when we were at the brand new F1 Arcade in Washington DC. We gave people the chance to win tickets to next year's Miami Grand Prix which is a pretty cool prize in my UK. Christian, this joke between the three of us when we found out this was going to be
a possibility it was. It was pretty great. Thank you to everyone who came to the show and everyone also who entered two winners have been chosen at random and we're very excited to speak to them now. It's Jenny from Arlington, Virginia and Eric from DC Hello and welcome to F1 Explains YouTube. Hello, thank you. Hi, Jenny, let's come to you first. How does it feel to be going to the 2025 Miami Grand Prix courtesy of F1 Explains and the lovely people at the
Miami Grand Prix? I am so excited. I have not been to a Grand Prix before so this will be my inaugural visit. I've had in my mind for a few years now to try to make it to a Grand Prix and now it's being handed to me and just lucky and very excited. Why is this so special to you? Why at one? I'm a new fan. I'm one of the many who are converted by Drive to Survive during the pandemic and I've been following Formula One since then to sort of cut to the F1 Arcade in DC.
I had been getting ads. I mean, I knew that this place had opened up and it was a place I knew I'd want to go check out and then I saw they had watch parties but then Katie it was a few weeks ago the first time you mentioned that you all were going to be there in DC and I'm like that clinches it. I'm going to the watch party for the Mexican Grand Prix. I'm getting the fancy tickets and you know and I'll get to see this podcast in action so it was very exciting. And little did you
know Jenny? Not only would you get to watch the live podcast but you'd also get to win tickets. You got a good day out of it in the end. I hope we made it worth you while. Really did. It was it was a really great afternoon. Yes and I'm so appreciative that the the contest was icing on the cake and even just being able to enter and then to a few days later finding out that I was one of the winners was great great experience. And when you when you think about the Miami Grand Prix
who's going to be the lucky one to go with you? We know there's two tickets involved. Who who sucked up in the last couple of days? So I was there with a friend of mine. Someone we've been friends for over 20 years and he is someone who has been into Formula One for far longer than I have and now I've finally been pulled into the fray. I can't quite recall if we had a deal if you win you'll take me if I win I'll take you. So we're going to have to work that out. Eric how does it feel
to be going to the Miami Grand Prix? Well it's it's I'll be honest with you when I read the email I started shaking. That was like and I I had to pull a friend and it's like read this for me is this real that I win and it was like yes you did and when I'm shaking. That is so special and and one thing that I love that both of you have shown up in your gear your your F1 gear
Jenny and McLaren and you Eric and your Red Bull so is there anything that kind of for you? I mean I obviously have one is something that's important to you and you're passionate about it but why Red Bull and perhaps that Max were stepping kind of guy. So it is Max this happened because of the beginning when he was what 17 18 years old Rookie and I was telling this kid's going to get places this kid's going to go far and then I started following him and and I'm just hoping for that
biggest to clean up that championship. Will you both won a pair of tickets to the 2025 Miami Grand Prix? You will be sitting in the new McLaren Grandstand which Jenny will be a natural home for you you've already got the merch and Eric the good news is you are allowed to be a Red Bull fan they won't check you at the gates before they enter before you enter the Grandstand you are still
allowed so you think you'll be okay with that. I will be more than okay because to be honest with you I'm taking my wife with me and he's she's a Red Bull bike trade because I'm a Red Bull and then the family kind of like follows me since early this season she was like I like the Papaya colors I think I'm gonna get that smart just clinch it. So if I tell I don't know where I was
sitting already if I tell her now we're going to the papaya team. The good news is Eric that as well as those tickets the Miami Grand Prix because you're going in the McLaren Grandstand are going to send you some McLaren merch as well. Great news for you Jenny you can add to what you're wearing and I'm guessing Eric it might be that your wife's inheriting a little bit of merch as well.
That is that'll be the like like Jen said before the icing on the cake because I tell you I'm a Red Bull now when I was a spa I saw Oscar for the first time and doing the the spring that he did and why not and I told my wife Oscar P.S. Street just like I said about Max this guy's going places and I like Norris too so I'm I'm a win-win. Christian I have a question for you you have three Miami rookies here who have not gotten to experience Miami yet right and we all look forward to doing so
in 2025. What is it about Miami Christian that really gets you going because you have had the experience to be up close with it? I'm a sports fan right I just love all sports and the fact you're in a place of such sporting significance with the Miami Open tennis the Miami Dolphins and then the way Formula One stretches around the stadium F1's all about creating unique moments and it feels
like a really unique sporting event that you're in this amazing iconic American football home and you're bringing motorsport there it's just such a vibrant unusual cool place to have a grand pre and the atmosphere is fantastic so I mean it guys I've been you know I've been fortunate enough to go to quite a few and Miami is right up there with my favorites it's a special sporting event so you guys will love it and Jenny I understand you've been an F1 explains listener from the start right?
Yes I think I think I have or very close to the start yes for sure it is part of my it's part of my weekend tradition when I go on either my Saturday or Sunday morning walk I come straight to you guys first. We're very grateful and Eric we hope I know you're a new listener we hope you're going to stick with us now because frankly you know we've given you these tickets we now expect you to return the favor by keeping listening if that's okay with you.
That is an absolutely yes I mean if it's Formula One I'm there's nothing that can interrupt my racing weekend so if it's F1 related everything needs to be second. I really recommend it it's been helpful for me as a newbie especially so yeah I recommend it to people I know.
Guys thank you both of you I'm so a Christian it is it's very heartwarming to know that at least where these tickets are going to two very passionate F1 people and I think that really helps kind of bring it full circle as to why we wanted to put that together for the the DC arcade
but again congrats to you Jenny and Eric thanks again to our friends at the Miami Grand Free for these fantastic prizes and also to everyone who entered we really appreciate you guys putting your name in the hat sorry we could only pick two winners this time around but we do hope
that we'll be able to do more giveaways for all of our listeners in the future so keep listening for chances to win my Christian correct Jenny Eric go and have the best time we hope to catch up with you there enjoy the race and you're both going to be entered into a separate competition
as well to potentially win a hot lap of the track so you might even get to go on the track itself so we'll catch up with you next year congratulations guys thank you so much thank you so much you are very welcome and if all of this has made you want to go to the Miami Grand Prix you can get
tickets at f1myammygp.com keep your questions coming to us f1explainsatf1.com and of course check out the latest episodes of f1 Beyond the Grid and f1 Nation f1's other official podcast thank you for listening kt thank you to you thank you Christian thanks everyone for listening we'll see you next time see you next time bye guys