"Amazing! He really took second place! This is the first time someone from Hua Country will stand on an F1 podium!"
Brother Bing shouted excitedly in the Six-Star Sports Studio.
The excitement back home was even more feverish than at the track in Australia. Countless viewers leaped from their sofas, cheering and screaming at their TVs.
Within just three minutes, the news was all over the sports sections of every major social media platform.
F1, normally a niche sport in the country, shot to the top of the trending charts once again, drawing in crowds of curious onlookers.
"What's F1?"
"What kind of competition is this? Everyone seems so hyped."
"I've never even heard of this race before [crying laughing]."
Enthusiastic racing fans were quick to educate them, explaining that it was "one of the three biggest sporting events in the world, on par with the Olympics and the World Cup."
