Red Bull Racing — And Music Fans — Win Big at the Formula 1 U.S. Grand Prix, Featuring Garth Brooks, Kygo & More

The Norwegian DJ was the archetypal to instrumentality the main signifier connected the COTA grounds, performing Friday nighttime (Oct. 17) conscionable a fewer hours aft the archetypal sprint of contention weekend, which Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen won. Kygo delivered an electrical showcase implicit with colorful laser lights and pyrotechnics, packing his acceptable with remixed versions of cross-generational hits programmed to marque the swarm of racing fans crowded onto the way beneath the signifier dance.

The adjacent day, Brooks closed retired an action-packed itinerary that began with a sprint contention and ended with an aggravated qualifying session, which determined the starting grid for the large contention the pursuing time — and saw Verstappen erstwhile again taking rod position. The state superstar’s acceptable was vastly antithetic from Kygo’s EDM dependable and airy show, but inactive arsenic exciting, with Brooks singing galore of his classics successful summation to a screen of Bob Seger’s ’70s stone staple “Turn the Page.”

At 1 point, the instrumentalist decided that his guitar wasn’t up to snuff — truthful helium chose 1 fortunate instrumentality successful the assemblage to instrumentality it disconnected his hands. “Where’s that kid?” helium asked earlier locating a grade-school-age lad he’d spotted earlier watching the amusement from atop a guardian’s shoulders.

Brooks past gave the guitar disconnected his backmost to a idiosyncratic successful the beforehand enactment truthful that they could walk it backmost to the young fan, who surely won’t hide the acquisition immoderate clip soon. (“I’m going to request that back,” Brooks joked a fewer minutes later.)

None of the days, however, were higher stakes than Sunday (Oct. 19) — the time of the existent Grand Prix. After 2 hours of high-speed, eardrum-bursting laps astir the winding track, Verstappen proved victorious, with McLaren’s Lando Norris and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc finishing successful 2nd and third, respectively. And to observe the extremity of an action-packed weekend, the Turnpike Troubadours closed retired the weekend’s philharmonic events with a rootsy, boot-stomping acceptable successful the COTA amphitheater, which was filled up with the astir dedicated euphony fans who’d already braved hours nether the prima to ticker the contention but stayed for the finale show anyways.

The yearly lawsuit – which is 1 of 3 Grand Prix races successful the U.S. successful the F1 play – conscionable keeps getting bigger, arsenic demons...