Oct 22, 2026 · 49 min · 13 segments
Cowboy UP! Formula 1 returns to the United States and this time it's the track we go to! The large hill, turn 1 and the long back straight can only mean one thing, COTA time! Andy and Cody are back on…
We had that triple header, we had a week off, and then we had a whole bunch of news that kind of dropped in between then.
I'm only going for the stuff, the biggies.
There's a lot of stories actually percolating around.
Some of it has to do, some of it is F1 tangent.
Some of it is people just talking to a microphone if someone wants to give them one.
But anyway, the big story, the stuff that we know is confirmed.
That is now confirmed.
We talked about this in our last, in our Singapore preview, that it was highly rumored to be done.
That announcement now has come down.
They have a 10-year agreement to bring the sport back to the African continent with Formula One African Grand Prix presented by Visit Rwanda.
I didn't know that that was a thing, but apparently it is.
Set to join the calendar in the early 2030s, Well, the reason that it's going to take that long, they have to build the track.
It is a big, giant, empty plot of hilly land.
It does look very interesting, the renderings of the track.
I know that they've done some sim work on it.
The drivers that have been interviewed about it all seem to really, really like the layout.
This could be a really good thing.
Cody, what's your thought?
I think it's really, really cool, honestly, to bring Formula One back to Africa, truly make it, you know, a world championship again.
I've seen some complaints going around about that, you know, Formula One didn't go with tradition and return to the Kayalami circuit in South Africa.
My understanding is, you know, the track's pretty dated.
It would probably take some doing to get it back up to spec for a Formula One race.
And yeah, they decided, let's just go with a whole new track and a whole new location.
Honestly, the area that they're going to be building this track in in Rwanda, it looks beautiful.
We had that triple header, we had a week off, and then we had a whole bunch of news that kind of dropped in between then.
I'm only going for the stuff, the biggies.
There's a lot of stories actually percolating around.
Some of it has to do, some of it is F1 tangent.
Some of it is people just talking to a microphone if someone wants to give them one.
But anyway, the big story, the stuff that we know is confirmed.
That is now confirmed.
We talked about this in our last, in our Singapore preview, that it was highly rumored to be done.
That announcement now has come down.
They have a 10-year agreement to bring the sport back to the African continent with Formula One African Grand Prix presented by Visit Rwanda.
I didn't know that that was a thing, but apparently it is.
Set to join the calendar in the early 2030s, Well, the reason that it's going to take that long, they have to build the track.
It is a big, giant, empty plot of hilly land.
It does look very interesting, the renderings of the track.
I know that they've done some sim work on it.
The drivers that have been interviewed about it all seem to really, really like the layout.
This could be a really good thing.
Cody, what's your thought?
I think it's really, really cool, honestly, to bring Formula One back to Africa, truly make it, you know, a world championship again.
I've seen some complaints going around about that, you know, Formula One didn't go with tradition and return to the Kayalami circuit in South Africa.
My understanding is, you know, the track's pretty dated.
It would probably take some doing to get it back up to spec for a Formula One race.
And yeah, they decided, let's just go with a whole new track and a whole new location.
Honestly, the area that they're going to be building this track in in Rwanda, it looks beautiful.
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