By 2026, nearly 90% of the cars will be redesigned<\/a> \u2014 featuring part-electric engines, sustainable fuel and smarter systems everywhere, Maia said.<\/p>\n\u201cF1 innovation always trickles down. Carbon fiber, seatbelts, hybrid tech \u2014 it all started here.\u201d<\/p>\n
So yes, you\u2019re watching a race. But you\u2019re also watching the future of transportation being tested live.<\/p>\n
Lesson 5: Kygo illustrated F1’s calculated chaos<\/p>\n
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Kygo performs on the Honda Stage at the Austin City Limits Music Festival on Saturday October 8, 2016. (Tamir Kalifa for American-Statesman)<\/p>\n
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By the time\u00a0Kygo took the Super Stage for the post-race concert, the track had turned into a music festival. The crowd \u2014 sunburned and dust-covered \u2014 was ready to let loose. Kygo delivered exactly what they wanted: nostalgia and euphoria in equal measure.<\/p>\n
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He bounced between 2010s classics and dreamy \u201980s hits, mixing “Titanium,” “Hot Stuff,” “Just Dance” and a few Avicii tributes that had everyone shouting lyrics into the warm Texas night. Fireworks burst overhead, lights and lasers flickered in kaleidoscopic patterns, and strangers danced like it was the last night of summer.<\/p>\n
It was messy, loud and over-the-top \u2014 but somehow perfectly orchestrated. F1 weekend in Austin is controlled chaos: heat, music, tech and tradition all colliding in one experience. By the finale, I was sunburned, exhausted and low-key in awe. F1 is fast and flashy, but it\u2019s also a dance where every second, every choice \u00a0\u2014\u00a0and yes, every cowboy boot \u00a0\u2014\u00a0counts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oracle Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen of Team Netherlands drives in Practice Session 1 at the Formula…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1223,1224,1037,1038,1034,1607,4965,27],"class_list":["post-10004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-texas","tag-austin-things-to-do","tag-circuit-of-the-americas","tag-cota","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula-one","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}