Red Bull Racing’s team principal Christain Horner has said that even Taylor Swift would have a tough time getting into a Formula 1 race due to the success of Netflix’s Drive to Survive.
According to the husband of Spice Girl Geri Horner, the documentary series has made the sport more popular than ever.
The rise in popularity means that famous faces would be “lucky” to attend races nowadays.
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Speaking on ESPN’s Formula 1 podcast Unlapped, Horner explained that organisers of the Austin Grand Prix in 2016 signed up Bad Blood singer Taylor to perform because they were struggling to draw attention to the racing event.
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He said: “If you remember Austin a few years ago, we were having to get Taylor Swift there to get a crowd there.
“Now she’s lucky if she’s allowed in, if she can get a pass.”
Horner went on to explain that it has “changed so much” due to the fandom surrounding Formula 1.
Drive to Survive aired its fifth season in February this year.
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He said: “It’s transformed the sport, it’s taken it into households it would’ve never been in previously.
“It’s now made drivers and some team principals household names.”
It comes as Taylor fans are getting excited as the pop star announced the release of the newly re-recorded version of her smash hit record, 1989.
The album, which has hits like Shake It Off and Blank Space, was one of her biggest successes and turned her from a country music singer into a massive pop star, wining lots of awards along the way.
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Taylor made the announcement on her social media feed as she performs on the US dates of her Eras world tour, which is coming to the UK next year.
The new version will also contain new songs written at the time and Taylor has called it the “FAVOURITE re-record I’ve ever done.”
Taylor announced her plans to re-record all her songs in 2019 after a dispute with music manager Scooter Braun, who had bought her formal label.
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Since then she’s been re-recording and re-releasing all her albums one by one as “Taylor’s Version”.
Her last re-record – Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) – was released in July.
Now only two others are still to be re-released: Taylor Swift and Reputation.
Re-recording them means that Taylor owns the rights to these recordings herself and can earn all the money they make, rather than anyone else who has bought the original recordings.
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