F1 US Grand Prix targets world record with giant Austin hat

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWelcome back. The Circuit of the Americas in Austin is building a seventy-five-foot cowboy hat, made of fibreglass, to go with its Grand Prix.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA hat. For a racetrack. Nobody has ever needed that, and now there's one the size of a house.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's a Western-themed bar, reached from the Lone Star Land fan area.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorChairman Bobby Epstein asked, quote, why not build a seventy-five-foot cowboy hat instead of a regular tent.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWhy not. That's how every disaster starts, Hank. Why not.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorScuderiaFans says Guinness certified it on Monday, and the hat copies a Cattleman model from the Austin brand Tecovas.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo a bar, shaped like a hat, inside a hat. Soon the wind picks it up, and a Texas gust carries it to Oklahoma.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPlausible.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorPlausible! Write it down, that's the best word you've ever said to me.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorEpstein expects it to stay year-round. Before this, Guinness had no listing for largest cowboy hat, though Garland claimed one last year.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorGarland's hat is finished, then. Somewhere a sculptor is staring at a very small hat.