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Las Vegas newspaper explains F1: 'Paddock? Locker room with exhaust pipes'
The Las Vegas Grand Prix should become the biggest sporting event in the world. At least, the Americans themselves think so. While most Americans have no idea what the sport actually entails, except for what they have seen on Netflix in Drive to Survive. As a clarification, the Las Vegas Journal has explained to readers in an extensive article what the most commonly used terms in F1 mean.
The writer frankly admits at the beginning of his article to knowing little about Formula 1. But he has read up. The main conclusion after all this studying: "Formula One racing cars are, like, really fast." To add: "Going to an F1 race is really expensive — really, really expensive, it turns out." Nevertheless, the journalist tells the other laymen in the gambling city what all the terms in Formula 1 mean.
What is a chicane?
This explains what a chicane is: "A curvy part of the track that looks kind of like the letter 's'." DRS is also explained. This system 'makes the vroom vroom machines even vroom-ier'. Or what exactly is a paddock? According to the writer, 'A locker room with exhaust pipes'.
In Formula 1, there are a lot of different flags that can be displayed. All the more important that these are covered in the article, because otherwise it will be difficult for people in Vegas to follow later. First, an important one, the yellow flag: "Hit the brakes lest you just might hit something else". The blue flag, according to the journalist, is: "Get out of the way, chief!". Finally, the green flag, which is simple: "Go!"