Why F1 NEEDS the AUSTIN GP 

One reason why....Austin as the only circuit built for F1.....and everything is big in Texas....

The Pirelli cowboy podium hats back in 2012.

I remember the first race in 2012 very fondly. At the time I worked for one of the major tech companies in the area who also sponsored one of the teams. Somehow I convinced upper management to let me be the primary technical contact for the team while they were at the race. Before the race I was able to meet a few of the engineers, the drivers, as well as check out one of the cars. It was a great week and weekend for sure.

Hearing Danny had a special helmet ready for Austin this year is even more heartbreaking :(

I live in Austin and I can attest that Kym’s portrayal of Austin and the Grand Prix are spot on. Expect massive queues at the airport on the Monday after the race.

I’ve been to every one. 15 minutes from my house. 🤘🏻🇺🇸

Great research Kym I live here and your analysis and information are very good.

Thanks for the videos! I went to the ‘23 USGP with a general admission pass and had an absolute blast. Missed meeting up with you because I don’t have social media to see where you’d be. My mom bought me a couple of your digital images to print as a memento and they’re hanging up beautifully on my wall. Fun fact: COTA has nights from spring to fall where you can ride your bike on the track. Oh, and the bats are only there March to September-they live in Mexico the rest of the year.

We go to about 5 F1 races a year and Austin remains my favorite F1 race. Great track, city, crowd and atmosphere. Best transportation secret if you do not have priority parking- the Barton Creek shuttle. Avoid Lot F at all costs. Tip to save money - fly into and stay in San Antonio. Only 1 hour and 20 minutes from COTA. And an awesome tourist town with its famous Riverwalk. Dallas is 2 hours 45 minutes and hours is 2 hours and 25 minutes.

As someone from Texas, if you have to stay outside of Austin, Dallas and Houston are too far away to be driving in everyday. Instead stay in San Antonio (about 60 minutes away) or San Marcos (35 minutes away) they are the sister cities to Austin.

Daniel needs to come to IndyCar. They would love him and he would love it too

austin feels like the silverstone of the US

My wife and I have been watching the Austin GP since inauguration in 2012 at Turn 1. Always a great spot at the start of the race. Epic spot!

Hello Kym, I purchased #54 of Colapinto's print for my nephew in Argentina. He does not know about it yet, it is a surprise. I'm staying in Waco Texas for race day (about 1 north of Austin), for a fraction of the cost.

The bull is Bevo, a Longhorn, mascot of the University of Texas at Austin

San Antonio is a good airport to fly out of, it is an hour and a half from Circuit of the Americas. For lodging New Braunfels is less than an hour away. Not as chic as Austin but has a good vibe and a German heritage.

Thanks for the lovely video in this raceless period and in the middle of the night. 😅 You always manage to tell something interesting with beautiful photographs. And nice to see that I'm not the only person awake. ❤

costco sell 3 day ticket general admission for 350 bucks

this year will be my 4th Austin GP, and I actually loving the parking situation at the track (with the exception of traffic leaving). I've gotten Lot L, which is right next to turn 11 and the entrance there. We would go in to get a good spot in the morning, watch the F1 session and walk around a little during the support series, then go out to the car to tailgate where we had a cooler of drinks and food to cool off and recharge. that lot is slightly sloped, so you can actually see turns 9 thru 11, and then the entire back straight.

Yep...Stroll choosing Howdy Doody's hat. Fits him well.

Always an exciting weekend

Austin is the best race in the USA for the racing fan. Miami and LV like you had mentioned in the past are for the glitz and glamor.

Had a fantastic experience there in 2021… except for leaving in a rental car. TAKE THE BUSSES. Everything was orderly parking, but leaving took 3 hours to reach the exit road. The attendants were taking bribes to let people out side gates, saw car stampedes straight out of Mad Max (cars hitting each other road raging) and worse. Only disappointment of the weekend. From our parking spot to our Austin hotel was a full 5 hours exiting the race… and we ran to our car as soon as the flag dropped.

San Antonio is closer! Not a bad drive if you leave early.

It's just 4 days but feels like 4 weeks last when we got kym video 😂😂😅😅😅

Austin is one of my favorite races I go too. Will be there again this race.

Trade Secret, Park at the Austin Airport and take the shuttle to the track. They have a bus lane and you will beat the traffic. Also leaving after the race takes hours if you park on site.

Austin has the best overhead view of the paddock from the Paddock Club. You have a commanding overhead view of the entire paddock which is very close to the out building. That does not happen at the European races where the engineering trailers partially block the view of the paddock, making the team hospitality houses/motorhomes a lot further away. You cannot see the team hospitality from the Miami Paddock Club at all and in Vegas they are quite far away from the Paddock Club balconies. In Austin, the team hospitality houses are in indeed in tents as Kym said and they are close to the Paddock Club balconies. So you will see a lot from the balconies that you won’t see at other races.

I wish the attendance figures would be stated for each day of the event. The three day totals mean nothing to anyone but the bean counters. What matters to a fan is how many people are in the crowd with you on any particular day. I was at Indy in 2000 when they estimated 250,000 on race day alone (the Speedway doesn't release actual numbers). I may be mistaken but that may have been the largest F1 crowd in history.

Let’s not forget Patrick Dempsey raced and podiumed in Le Mans✨

Lando will drive the new W1 to the track

I live in Las Vegas, It is pretty much cheaper for me to Fly to Austin to watch the race and Fly Home then see it in my local town. That is why so many people watch the race in Austin and not Vegas or Miami

I'll be in Austin for the 3rd time, and it's just a great track with great views, the city is fun, and the food is great, especially the barbecue!

So excited for the race! This will be my first GP 😄

Nashville might have a thing or two to say about that ‘world capital of live music’ call…

can't wait to see Kym interview P. Diddy on the paddock

I stayed at that Four Season Hotel and saw the Millions of Bats flying around from the Bridge Worth it.

Love Austin as a city. Never been to the F1 there. But highly recommend if you like live music

I went to Austin with my rowing team for winter training when it was too cold in winter and the ice would build up fast. It ended up being one of the coldest weeks ever in Texas (I think until at least some of the recent storms) and we had multiple days with tons of freezing rain. No one brought warm clothes, so we were actually colder than we would have been up North where at least we would have some warm thermal workout clothes. It was awful, I did have a windbreaker with me at least, but after literally rowing a marathon distance in freezing rain I was unable to move my hands enough to unzip my windbreaker. I passed out in my bed with my wet clothes and windbreaker still on. Anyways, Texas couldn’t really deal with the freezing rain, they didn’t normally need equipment for it, so almost everything was shut down the whole time we were there. We never got to enjoy the live music. Luckily, things were closer to normal at the end of the week so at least we got some BBQ instead of hotel prepared meals. I forget what we were rowing on, but it had trails and artwork you could see from the water. It’s a nice city.

A lovely video kym. Looking forward to hearing from you over the grand prix weekend ❤

hey Kym, another great video as always. I am from Perth also and I am about to go to the UK and I wondered how you avoid paying international transaction fees all the time. P&N Bank here hits me up 3% each time!

The Texas Oklahoma football game is actually in Dallas at the Texas state fair on Saturday October 12th. So there is no conflict with hotel rooms. They just up-charge the hotel rooms because they can

Austin is a great city and COTA is a terrific track for racing.

Hah I see myself in your shot of the paddock from last year 4:12. Got to ask you that day if Charles or George had already been in early on Saturday!

Excellent presentation until you mentioned Lando beating Max this weekend. It defies belief that you believe that Rev Bull can't fix the tire degradation & tire management glitch that is hindering overall performance.

Don't drive, take the shuttle from downtown. It's $150ish for the entire 3 days, and they have something like 800-900 total shuttles running round trip all day long. The longest I had to wait for a shuttle was on race day heading back to the city and was only like a 30ish minute wait. They actually do a great job with the shuttle service. I just hope the circuit owner has decided against his lofty goals of trying to cram 600,000 fans in for the US GP by 2025. It's already a bit too packed. It's manageable, but still gets pretty sardine can-ish on race day when trying to walk around.

As a TV spectator, COTA isn't a bad track. Miami and Vegas can go way now please, terrible tracks in terrible cities.

Its not just any college football game. It is going to be one of the biggest of the season. #1 Texas vs. #5 Georgia. There will be over 100,000 fans in the stadium alone. Austin will be buzzing.

Hey Kym I don't comment often but today I had a bad day and your smile and info brings me happiness thanks!

I have a feeling Lando will be arriving in the new W1? Only time will tell.

Redbull should get Daniel into do promo work since Horner left door open if Lawson and Checo don't go well...

It’s the where *ACTUAL* “United States Grand Prix” takes place

Lando must be showing up in McLaren's new W1 they just unveiled this weekend.

Did not mention San Antonio which is only 1 hr away

Hyped for Texas finna be there 💯

Ill be there! First F1 race, going to be in Turn 12 Grandstand! Cant wait, any tips for Turn 12?

Austin is a great F1. I loved it when I was there last. , but Kim you would probably know the answer to this. Why is there such a long break between the last F1 race and the next one? They have all just come back from summer holidays where they were gone for a full month. How tired can they be?

All the years I lived in Austin and I could never afford to go to ACL or F1.

Lando in something remarkable? Surely they wouldn't put him in the new W1 would they? Impossible but I'm hoping!!!

I’ll cheer for you at turn 15 if I see you!!!

Need Austin without Sprint's... Get rid of Florida

“There are no security issues in Texas…” Murica 🔫🇺🇸

The flag of Texas is “Lone Star”

The COTA accountants have never understood how to run a large event. The post race traffic is always a cluster F. The restrooms and walking paths are really bad.

Travel tip San Antonio Closer than Dallas and Houston And better tacos

F1 needs Road America MORE but the locals want nothing to do with it.

The flag at turn 1 is too small!

Kym be twisting the knife in Ricciardo fans ;P

Cheerleaders are extremely athletic models

Lando Will be driving the M1 people

Buccees!

11 days more is tooooo loooonnng for Austin 😱😂

Austin is still great

TEXAS !

F1 does not need 3 American races and liberty Media can sod off. F1 needs 2004 cars back and refuelling

cota have to stay best race outside europe and Japan

AND it needs Daniel.

um, f1 drivers are celebrities, kym.

Miami and Vegas are complete street garbage. this one is a decent track.

The only American race that is good.

You had to drive to Houston or Dallas? You could've driven just an hour and a half down south to San Antonio instead. It's the second largest city in Texas and the 7th. largest city in the United States. At 2.4 million people It's twice as large as Austin, and yes, they do have an international airport in San Antonio 😂

not for Danny showboating, unfortunately.

hey kym, i’ll be attending this race and was wondering how i can have the best chance to get a drivers autograph without being in the paddock, thanks (i watched your autograph video as well but still couldn’t quite answer my question; i love your content by the way)

Austin is way better than Vagas; I wish Vagas never got a race :(

😅Hawk Tuah girl wave the chequred flag this year lol😀

Is Lando gonna be driving the brand new W1 McLaren

thats why F1 is better than indy500

Austin is the only F1 in the US that is designed for fans and not the woke crowd that is only there to be seen. Too bad that historic courses in the US like Watkins Glen, Road America, Laguna Seca, Road Atlanta and a few others couldn't be made to comply with FIA standards. Road Atlanta gets the WEC and has nearby lodging in Atlanta, so it may be the easiest to use.

Can't wait for the cringe fest at Austin GP

Wasn't Diddy there as well last year or the year before? 😆

Poor Danny, he finally realised people were laughing at him, not with him......

"This Woman" poor Maddison Beer

Just watch out for the lady bird lake serial killer

Get rid of Miami.

First!

Fans of Checo id the biggest crowd because the close Austin is for Mexico. But Kym avoid to mention that and prefer to talk about RIC who was fire; funny thing. Clearly Kym is not objective, he has his own agenda.

Why F1 needs the Austin GP? Then spent half the video talking about a washed up driver thats not even in F1 anymore.

The usa is not soecial