{"id":116201,"date":"2024-10-20T05:01:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T22:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116201"},"modified":"2024-10-20T05:01:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T22:01:46","slug":"f1-meets-georgia-texas-austin-readies-for-one-of-its-biggest-sports-weekends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116201","title":{"rendered":"F1 meets Georgia-Texas: Austin readies for one of its biggest sports weekends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><i>Stay informed on all the biggest stories in\u00a0<a class=\"ath_autolink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/formula-1\/\" data-id=\"54\">Formula One<\/a>.\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/newsletters\/prime-tire\/?source=footer\"><i>Sign up here<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0to receive the Prime Tire newsletter in your inbox every Monday and Friday.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Just outside Circuit of the Americas stands a large, multicolored billboard.<\/p>\n<p>On the right side, set on a black background, is the Formula One logo, the dates for Sting and Eminem\u2019s concerts and the logos for the Texas Longhorns and Georgia Bulldogs. Written on the left is a phrase displayed across different parts of Austin this weekend: \u201cThe biggest weekend ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/live-blogs\/f1-united-states-gp-live-updates-sprint-race-qualifying-results\/89xYzHkz9Qin\/\">United States Grand Prix<\/a> has taken place during the college football season ever since COTA joined the calendar in 2012 (aside from 2022, when COVID-19 impacted F1\u2019s schedule). The two sports have competed in Austin on the same weekends before, like in 2013 when Texas lost to Oklahoma State, in 2015 when it beat Kansas State and the overtime 2017 loss to Oklahoma State.<\/p>\n<p>But this weekend\u2019s game, where the top-ranked Longhorns host the No. 5 Bulldogs, is one of the biggest college football matchups this year, with two Southeastern Conference powerhouses set to clash.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN\u2019s College GameDay is also in town, and the media company is planning plenty of crossover between F1 and college football this weekend, like with SportsCenter segments live from COTA and The Elle Duncan Show also being on-site. Legendary football coach Nick Saban <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DBR5rWtSjn7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">did a hot lap on Friday<\/a>, and Jess Sims tested several drivers\u2019 knowledge of American college football, including Lando Norris.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a weekend unlike one F1 has seen, particularly since the popularity boom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really exciting to see those two cultures blend because they\u2019re both just formidable. Iconic American college football and Formula One racing,\u201d said Drew Martin, Texas\u2019 Executive Senior Associate Athletics Director for External Affairs. \u201cThose are really, really unique and distinctive sports cultures, and to watch them come together on a weekend like that, there\u2019s nowhere else in the world that that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>College football gamedays, particularly within the SEC, are a different beast.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, you have your typical tailgates and ritual cheers. But Texas levels it up, the university reinventing what gameday looks like in Austin. Martin said, \u201cWhen you come to a football game at the University of Texas, you\u2019re going to get the best of Austin culture, which starts with the live music capital (of the) world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Longhorns have a pregame concert at Longhorn City Limits, and it leans into the city\u2019s street festival culture, like Bevo Boulevard. And then there\u2019s Smokey\u2019s Midway, a nod to the state fair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the absolute best football game day environment in the country, although it\u2019s non-traditional,\u201d Martin added. \u201cIt\u2019s not your massive acreage and acreage and acreage of tailgating lots. It\u2019s a giant three-ring circus, really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And when College GameDay comes into town, it adds a bit to the chaos. Texas received the notification over a week ahead of time, but this is the fifth time in seven years that the university is hosting the production. It is a massive logistical feat regardless, Martin says, but considering the relationships they\u2019ve built over the years, \u201cit\u2019s more of a known entity of what they need, what they expect, how to activate around the show, how to draw our fan base in because we won\u2019t kick off that game until 7:30 p.m. Eastern time.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5854834\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5854834 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/10\/19085618\/Jess-Sims-and-Lando-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/10\/19085618\/Jess-Sims-and-Lando-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/10\/19085618\/Jess-Sims-and-Lando-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/10\/19085618\/Jess-Sims-and-Lando-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/10\/19085618\/Jess-Sims-and-Lando-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/10\/19085618\/Jess-Sims-and-Lando-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-credits\">\n<div class=\"inline-credits-container\">\n      <span class=\"table-cell-span\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"credits-text\">Jess Sims interviews Lando Norris for ESPN. (via ESPN)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019ll be a marathon day \u2014 College GameDay for three hours in the morning, and then the festivities will begin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know the Europeans are particularly fond of college football, in particular the halftime show. It\u2019s surprising, but we have groups from Europe that come when there is a college football game because it adds to their weekend, and they, in particular, like the marching band halftime shows,\u201d COTA chairman Bobby Epstein said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s something we may take for granted here, but the pomp and circumstance and all the fun around a college football atmosphere is something that\u2019s so uniquely American that we know our out-of-country visitors like that and look for that on the weekend to just elevate the experience overall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5696265\/2024\/10\/16\/f1-dallas-grand-prix-failure-heat\/\" class=\"go-deeper\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"go-deeper\">\n<div class=\"go-deeper-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/08\/12122125\/0729_DallasF1-1-1024x512.jpg?width=128&amp;height=128&amp;fit=cover&amp;auto=webp\" class=\"go-deeper\" alt=\"go-deeper\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"go-deeper-label\">GO DEEPER<\/p>\n<p class=\"go-deeper-title\">The day F1 melted: Why the ill-fated Dallas Grand Prix left a searing impression<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Between the Texas-Georgia game and F1, Epstein expects \u201cat least a quarter of a million people around that night in downtown Austin\u201d by Saturday. Martin reckons over 100,000 people will be at the downtown Austin college campus that night.<\/p>\n<p>F1\u2019s qualifying runs from 5 to 6 p.m. CT, and the college football game will kick off at 6:30 p.m. CT, making it a tight turnaround for those attending both sporting events. There\u2019s no extra pressure when it comes to security or traffic management; COTA and Darrell K Royal Memorial Stadium are around 17.5 miles apart (if you take toll roads). But Eminem\u2019s concert is that evening as well.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5854830\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5854830 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/10\/19085434\/CNE29420-Enhanced-NR-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/10\/19085434\/CNE29420-Enhanced-NR-1-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/10\/19085434\/CNE29420-Enhanced-NR-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/10\/19085434\/CNE29420-Enhanced-NR-1-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/10\/19085434\/CNE29420-Enhanced-NR-1-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/10\/19085434\/CNE29420-Enhanced-NR-1-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-credits\">\n<div class=\"inline-credits-container\">\n      <span class=\"table-cell-span\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"credits-text\">Oscar Piastri visited the Longhorns\u2019 stadium this week. (via McLaren)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s slate is packed, but COTA created another ticket package option for football fans called the \u2018Split the Uprights Package.\u2019 Epstein said, \u201cSaturday was selling out, largely because of Eminem,\u201d but there was still availability for Friday and Sunday. It\u2019s a Friday-Sunday general admission ticket combination at a lower cost\u2014$289. According to COTA, this is cheaper than single tickets for each day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think most of the hotels are three or four-night minimums,\u201d Epstein said. \u201cSo if you\u2019re a Georgia fan coming in for it, you say, \u2018What else am I going to do the rest of the weekend?\u2019 Well, you can buy Friday and Sunday. Come out to the track.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martin did say that conversations about the package began in the spring, but it \u201ccame to fruition fairly late in the process, as we begin to determine what availability look like, how we were able to activate this, and just knowing as folks lead up to the game, there was going to be a lot of demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cTexas football is sold out on a season basis, and so knowing that we weren\u2019t going to have any individual ticket inventory for this game, the ability to come in later in the lead-up to the weekend, with an additional opportunity to enjoy both active activations, both sporting events, was really appealing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pulling off a Saturday like this requires collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first reaction was just kind of that deep breath of a massive international F1 race and a massive, not just a small football game, but a massive national implications with this particular SEC matchup,\u201d Martin said. \u201cI think it was a giant deep breath of, \u2018How are we going to approach this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>University of Texas Athletics and Circuit of the Americas began discussing how to work together. Some factors are outside their control, like restaurant availability and the surge in hotel prices. Martin said, \u201cSome of those are inevitable when you put two massive marquee sporting events into the same weekend.\u201d But the challenges extend beyond the downtown area. Because of the sheer number of flights coming into the metropolitan area, air traffic control is diverting some flight paths.<\/p>\n<p>This is a significant weekend for Austin, with fans worldwide flocking to Texas for two of the biggest events on both sports\u2019 calendars. F1 has a title fight brewing as it kicks off the first of the final six races of the year, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5851552\/2024\/10\/17\/f1-united-states-gp-red-bull-bib-mclaren\/\">a new technical controversy is unfolding at COTA<\/a>. Meanwhile, the Longhorns want to continue proving their worth during their first year in the SEC and hold onto their No. 1 status.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can either be intimidated by it, worried about things that could or could not go wrong, or you can embrace it and say, \u2018The entire world is going to be watching Austin, Texas, on the weekend of October 19.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5851166\/2024\/10\/18\/alex-albon-f1-100th-grand-prix-us-gp\/\" class=\"go-deeper\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"go-deeper\">\n<div class=\"go-deeper-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/athletic\/uploads\/wp\/2024\/10\/18110549\/1007_AlexAlbon100thGrandPrix-1.png?width=128&amp;height=128&amp;fit=cover&amp;auto=webp\" class=\"go-deeper\" alt=\"go-deeper\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"go-deeper-label\">GO DEEPER<\/p>\n<p class=\"go-deeper-title\">Wiser, but still green: Alex Albon looks back ahead of his 100th GP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Top photo: Jared C. 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