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# A LOT of Celebs Came to the F1 Race in Vegas This Weekend
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/a-lot-of-celebs-came-to-the-f1-race-in-vegas-this-weekend-11-2023/
- Published: 2023-11-20T16:00:04.000Z
- Updated: 2023-11-20T04:13:21.000Z
- Description: Beckham! Nyong'o! Hilton! Dobrev! SHAQ.
- Author: Jessica  
- Tags: fugs, F1, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:24, Shaun White

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I'm very interested in hearing how many of you watched the Formula 1 race in Vegas this weekend,[ an event that sounds like it was a bit of a shitshow](https://www.npr.org/2023/11/19/1214079686/formula-1-lawsuit-las-vegas-grand-prix?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) but which at least looked cool on TV. My boyfriend and I switched it on when we got home on Saturday night and watched about an hour of the pre-show, which was the Sky TV feed on ESPN, and which was...an existential crisis on live TV. As you know if you've ever watched Formula 1, or *Drive to Survive*, or both, pre-race they allow reporters to just wander the racetrack area and interview whoever they can grab on the fly -- it's very disorganized and lively but usually people are willing to chat. The portion of this that we saw on ESPN was CHAOTIC; the reporter couldn't get anyone to talk to him for a while and started, like, muttering his personal existential crisis about this into a live mic. At one point, he managed to get Shaq and Shaq -- who had just posed for pics with the Red Bull team -- merely boomed "LEWIS HAMILTON" into the mic and vanished. (I think Shaq had been drinking since like 4pm.) (Notably, Lewis Hamilton does NOT drive for Red Bull.) Shaun White gave a VERY friendly and thoughtful interview, while an unnoticed Nina Dobrev chatted with someone else in the background. Kylie Minogue was a sweetie. (I suspect Shaun AND Kylie are very familiar with the faces of folks on Sky TV.) The interviewer cornered racer Lando Norris and asked how he was feeling about the race; Lando said TERRIBLE then zipped off. [(He later ended up crashing and going to the hospital -- he's fine --](https://www.si.com/fannation/racing/f1briefings/news/f1-news-mclaren-provide-health-update-on-lando-norris-as-he-is-taken-to-hospital-after-las-vegas-gp-crash-sj4?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) so his vibe was correct.)

The rest of the pre-show reminded me so much of watching *Drive to Survive* combined with the interstitials going into ads during the Golden Globes: Mostly un-chyroned celebs randomly spotted in the background, leading to me yelling "IS THAT LUPITA????" (it *was)*, "RIHANNA!" (who *did* get a chyron), and "IS THAT BECKS?" (also yes). Much like those pre-ad b-roll shots of celebs chatting during the Globes, this was messy and fun -- kind of like the race itself, honestly, although the outcome was, in the end, boringly predictable. Did you watch? Because I also DESPERATELY need to discuss Jared Leto's Spoken Word Poetry "Viva Las Vegas" that kicked the whole thing off. I was like...*am I....hallucinating?!?!*

Let's see what everyone wore. It looked fun!

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