Racing with the Concepts: Using F1 as Way to Explore Economic Geography

Over the past two decades, geography education researchers and practitioners have examined ways in which to introduce and explore core concepts in economic geography within undergraduate classrooms. Many challenges are rooted in making somewhat abstract concepts from the discipline relevant to students. At the same time, economic geography is more important than ever given the economic changes happening at various scales across the world. This case report presents a course project that employed Formula One (F1) racing as a central focus in exploring various economic geography concepts and understanding the geographies of the global economy at-large. Results suggest that this was a constructive way to engage students with economic geography concepts and to practice location analyses, especially in terms of the importance of place and the movement of goods and services in the global economy.