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2022 Formula One season opening to great expectations, especially in U.S.

2022 Formula One season opening to great expectations, especially in U.S.

You wanna be Americano, Americano, Americano… listen here: Who asked you to?
You want to be all trendy, but if you drink “whisky and soda” you can only end up sick.
You dance the “rock’n’roll” and play the “baseball.” But where’d you get the cash for the Camel cigarettes?
Mummy’s handbag!

You acting all Americano, Americano, Americano…
But you were born in Italy!!!

“Tu vuò fà l’americano” — Renato Carosone

Formula One is having a moment. 2021 was a whole season of moments. Because of that, plus a lot of other pluses (See: that reality show all the cool kids are streaming), F1 isn’t just having a moment, it’s having an American moment (See: a sudden gaggle of North American race dates). Never in the 73-year history of Earth’s most prestigious motorsports series have so many stateside eyeballs watched with such piqued interest (See: ESPN’s crazy-good 2021 TV ratings).

When the green lights are illuminated for Sunday’s Bahrain GP (11 a.m. ET, ESPN/Watch ESPN), it is without even an…

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