A LOT of Celebs Came to the F1 Race in Vegas This Weekend

I’m very taken with listening to what number of of you watched the System 1 race in Vegas this weekend, an event that sounds like it was a bit of a shitshow however which not less than regarded cool on TV. My boyfriend and I switched it on after we received residence on Saturday evening and watched about an hour of the pre-show, which was the Sky TV feed on ESPN, and which was…an existential disaster on reside TV. As you already know when you’ve ever watched System 1, or Drive to Survive, or each, pre-race they permit reporters to only wander the racetrack space and interview whoever they will seize on the fly — it’s very disorganized and energetic however normally persons are keen to talk. The portion of this that we noticed on ESPN was CHAOTIC; the reporter couldn’t get anybody to speak to him for some time and began, like, muttering his private existential disaster about this right into a reside mic. At one level, he managed to get Shaq and Shaq — who had simply posed for pics with the Pink Bull group — merely boomed “LEWIS HAMILTON” into the mic and vanished. (I believe Shaq had been consuming since like 4pm.) (Notably, Lewis Hamilton does NOT drive for Pink Bull.) Shaun White gave a VERY pleasant and considerate interview, whereas an unnoticed Nina Dobrev chatted with another person within the background. Kylie Minogue was a sweetie. (I think Shaun AND Kylie are very conversant in the faces of oldsters on Sky TV.) The interviewer cornered racer Lando Norris and requested how he was feeling in regards to the race; Lando stated TERRIBLE then zipped off. (He later ended up crashing and going to the hospital — he’s fine – so his vibe was right.)

The remainder of the pre-show jogged my memory a lot of watching Drive to Survive mixed with the interstitials going into advertisements throughout the Golden Globes: Principally un-chyroned celebs randomly noticed within the background, resulting in me yelling “IS THAT LUPITA????” (it was), “RIHANNA!” (who did get a chyron), and “IS THAT BECKS?” (additionally sure). Very like these pre-ad b-roll pictures of celebs chatting throughout the Globes, this was messy and enjoyable — type of just like the race itself, actually, though the end result was, in the long run, boringly predictable. Did you watch? As a result of I additionally DESPERATELY want to debate Jared Leto’s Spoken Phrase Poetry “Viva Las Vegas” that kicked the entire thing off. I used to be like…am I….hallucinating?!?!

Let’s see what everybody wore. It regarded enjoyable!

[Photos: David Becker – Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images, Ethan Miller – Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images, Rich Polk/Getty Images for Hilton, Denise Truscello – Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images, Bob McCaffrey/Getty Images]