#and LISA waving the chequered flag oh

[wisteriagoesvroom]

MF THE ONE OF FEW TIMES I SLEEP THROUGH A 4AM RACE AND LANDO WINS THIS IS SO— 😭😭😭😭🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧

[lil-shiro]

From Planet F1:

Celebrity F1 fan Jeremy Clarkson fears he accidentally crowned Lance Stroll the unofficial winner of the Bahrain GP after missing Max Verstappen during his chequered-flag waving cameo.

More details from the article here:

He said: “I went to the Formula 1 race in Bahrain last weekend, and as it began I was approached by one of the organisers who wondered if I’d like to wave the chequered flag at the end.

“Given that Neymar and Kevin Hart were also in town, I was extremely flattered, so even though I’d had a few beers and maybe some wines as well, I decided to say ‘yes’.

“I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

“With a dozen laps to go, I set off from my viewing platform at one end of the pit straight to the little flag-waving box at the other.

“No big deal. Plenty of time. Which would have been true if I’d been able to walk in a straight line.

“Mercifully, I arrived in the pit lane, opposite the little flag box, as Max Verstappen began his final lap.

“I was a little out of breath but even I could cross a road in the time it takes a Formula 1 car to do a whole lap.

“And it was at this point that my equally merry girlfriend, Lisa, announced that she needed a wee.

Right. I see. So we do what? Ask Max to park up at the back of the track until she’d finished?

“Even though he could have done that and still won, we decided not to chance it, hurried across the pit lane, plunged into the little box, took control of the flag. And waited for Max to appear round the last corner. Easy.

“But it was dark and in the time it takes to think, “Is that a Red Bull?” the car was past me and I’m thinking: “Oh s**t. It was a Red Bull.”

“So I was waving the flag as frantically as I could when I realised that it wasn’t a Red Bull.

“I’m told that officially, Max Verstappen won the race but the car that took the chequered flag?

“Well, I’ve checked the footage and I think it might have been Lance Stroll.”