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\n\tJak Crawford is currently the U.S.\u2019 sole driver in the biggest motorsport competition in the world, though you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking otherwise.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Texas native has acquired that classic Formula One twang. It\u2019s the product of years spent racing around the globe, including vast amounts of time in Europe \u2014 a blended, nonspecific accent not dissimilar to the cadence of other talented teenagers who grew up on international race tracks, like Britain\u2019s Lando Norris and Ollie Bearman.<\/p>\n

\n\tHaving risen the ranks from F4 all the way to F2 \u2014 a championship he narrowly lost last year to Italy\u2019s Leonardo Fornaroli \u2014\u00a0Crawford, just 21, entered this season with an almost unprecedented amount of experience under his (seat)belt.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter that no-doubt gutwrenching F2 loss, Aston Martin was on hand to soften the blow. They made Crawford their reserve driver for the jewel in the FIA crown (and the one contest these kids put their lives on the line for): F1. His job? To score Lawrence Stroll\u2019s prized racing team crucial points in the event of Fernando Alonso or Lance Stroll being unable to drive.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a pretty rare thing, I think,\u201d Crawford tells The Hollywood Reporter <\/em>about being an American F1 driver. He\u2019s speaking from Aston Martin\u2019s lavish team yacht, docked in Monaco. We\u2019re a guest of the team here in the municipality for the most glamorous race on the F1 calendar, the only sporting event on the planet where A-listers (such as, this year, Cynthia Erivo, Patrick Dempsey, Noah Schnapp, Terry Crews, Olivia Wilde, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas) come second to the spectacle. The conversation is regularly \u2014\u00a0and politely \u2014 interrupted by uniformed staff offering us a selection of extravagant canap\u00e9s, as the C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur sun beats down on a busy harbour teeming with billionaire boats. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMe and Logan Sargeant are really the only ones who have been close since Scott Speed was on the grid,\u201d continues Crawford, referencing the former Scuderia Toro Rosso driver, whose last F1 appearance was in 2007. \u201cSo yeah, it\u2019s been a while. But I\u2019m super proud to represent my country \u2014\u00a0not only in Formula One but in Formula Two over the last couple of years. Being an American, there\u2019s actually so many young U.S. kids that drive go-karts and I think almost look up to me, in a way. I feel like I didn\u2019t have that enough. There was no one from my country to support anyone in F1.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rarity of Crawford\u2019s position is only more impressive when you consider how American the sport has become over the last decade. In 2017, the Formula One Group was bought by the Colorado-based Liberty Media for an eye-watering $4.4 billion.<\/p>\n

\n\tFast forward nine years, and there are now three U.S. races on the calendar, in Las Vegas, Miami and Austin \u2014\u00a0more than any other country \u2014\u00a0and, according to F1, the sport now boasts 52 million fans across America, up 11 percent year-on-year. \u201cI have so many friends, especially my age, [who] had no idea what I did or what I wanted to do growing up,\u201d Crawford says. \u201cAnd now they know all about it and come to my races.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tHe concedes that much of this is down to the Netflix doc Drive to Survive <\/em>\u2014\u00a0the success of which hundreds of Hollywood producers have tried, and failed, to recreate \u2014 though even Crawford is stunned by the glitzy names that have joined us here in Monte Carlo. \u201cI saw Kim Kardashian,\u201d he tells THR<\/em>. (The reality behemoth and Skims founder is in the paddock supporting Ferrari\u2019s Lewis Hamilton.) \u201cI\u2019ve seen a lot <\/em>of security guards. I\u2019ve just been pushed out of the way!\u201d he laughs. \u201cIt\u2019s been super strict all weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKardashian is not a woman who needs explaining to anyone. But Crawford, admittedly, has never heard of The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. Perhaps our being here is a testament to F1\u2019s rising celebrity-ness, or maybe, more simply, a race car driver like Crawford can\u2019t get excited about film and TV news. The latter is more likely, given his interest in padel (a mix of tennis and squash) and running, as well as a preference for the more lowkey F1 events: \u201cI like Monaco more for the track and the racing, but yeah, I wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s necessarily my vibe,\u201d he says. \u201cI like quieter races, but it\u2019s still super cool, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt makes sense \u2014\u00a0Crawford has already notched up over 2,000 kilometres (1,242 miles) in F1 machinery, but he\u2019s desperate to get as much time in the car as possible. \u201cI\u2019m ready to drive at any point,\u201d he says about potentially stepping in for Alonso or Stroll. \u201cI feel ready, and of course, I don\u2019t wish anything bad on anyone, but if the opportunity [were] to arise, I would definitely take the opportunity to try and show my best.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe step-up from F2 to F1 is, as Crawford describes it, the biggest any driver will do in their career. \u201cThe cars, of course, are faster \u2014\u00a0you have more downforce, more power. But I think the biggest thing is more the technology,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd the amount of people you work with. We have so many people, probably near 1,000 people, that work for the team. In Formula Two, we had 12,\u201d he smiles. \u201cSo it\u2019s a huge difference.\u201d It\u2019s a discrepancy that has even necessitated Crawford change up his gym routine to compensate for the immense muscle needed in the neck and body to handle the force of driving an F1 car.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s also been something of an emotional whirlwind to all of a sudden be sharing the paddock with his childhood heroes. \u201cGrowing up, I always looked up to Max [Verstappen],\u201d continues Crawford, \u201cHe was a young guy, really fast, and a lot of the time I relate to that because I was quite young when I started. Now he\u2019s one of the best drivers in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLuckily, as competitive as these 22 drivers are, they\u2019re \u201cpretty nice\u201d and \u201calways say hello\u201d to the young American. And racing under the U.S. flag, Jak Crawford is hoping that sometime \u2014\u00a0in the near future \u2014\u00a0one of them will be his teammate.<\/p>\n

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