r/formula1 • u/Groundbreaking-Gate6 Ferrari • Jul 05 '26
Photo What is he doing there??
Yep! That is MBS, the president of FIA. He is driving his own LEGO car at Silverstone alongside the drivers.
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u/Generic_Person_3833 Jul 05 '26
He didn't even get a Lego cart. Just annoyed someone long enough to organize a standard rental cart for his ego.
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u/Multitronic Jul 05 '26
You’re right. That’s unbelievably cringey. He seems like a detestable person.
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u/sausage_beans Jul 05 '26
I'm sat in Woodcote, the whole stand booed as he came past.
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u/Mike_Kermin Jul 05 '26
It'd be so easy, with his wealth and position, to be an incredible person that people liked.
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u/DConceicao Jul 05 '26
Exactly my thoughts when I saw this. He definitely said: I also want to be part of this… and then they had to find a rental for him to go amongst the drivers. Quite ridiculous
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u/kaisadilla_ Jul 06 '26
Dude thinks that being FIA president makes him a protagonist. These kind of people are annoying.
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u/FiniteIncantatem- Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
"How can I make this about me?"
Oh I know! Let's hop on a
Edit; Thank you for the awards!
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u/gooner712004 Jul 05 '26
He is such a fucking shit stain on the sport
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u/Electrical-Rope3959 Jul 05 '26
"But sir, we don't have a spare Lego cart"
"Take this 💵, buy me a brand new one"
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u/Mexican-_-Halloween Jul 05 '26
Mostly getting boo’d at.
I’m in
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u/prudencepineapple Jul 05 '26
I thought I heard booing on TV at one stage but they weren’t showing MBS so I was confused which driver they were booing
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u/question-asker-12345 Jul 05 '26
Right I was confused too. I heard the boos when they showed Kimi and Colapinto on screen.
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u/prudencepineapple Jul 05 '26
Oh that’s right. I was trying to figure out why either of them would be booed in the Lego race?!
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u/2BA_Doctor Jul 06 '26
Well it’s England and Colapinto is Argentinian so there was that possibility, along with Kimi keeps beating on Gorgeous George
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u/Smooshydoggy Jul 05 '26
There were boos for Christian Horner when he appeared on screens pre race, could that be it?
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u/MNKPlayer Jul 05 '26
Not a chance.
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u/G_Glennn Jul 05 '26
Yes I found it odd too, but rewatch the video at 15:50, they booed kimi for some reason.
Also at 13:20, but this time i don’t know who they’re booing.https://www.youtube.com/live/KaawX8wJEIY?si=Htm56mTG8Pq6skov
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u/fraint Jul 05 '26
The fact its not even lego its just a normal go kart. Probably saw the hype for the race and realised he was missing out
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u/CX52J Jul 05 '26
Yep. Clearly forced his way into the event.
Bet they found that kart last minute.
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u/Revolutionary-Gap494 Jul 05 '26
Probably demanded one or else someone would get fired
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u/jianh1989 Jul 05 '26
agreed. His kart doesn't even have onboard cameras on it. Probably they didn't have time to source the cameras when he wanted in.
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u/R9D11 Jul 05 '26
Probably took from a local cart track.
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u/PriclessSami Jul 05 '26
I just found out that it was actually a make a wish kids cart and he booted them out of it
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u/PromotionOdd7319 Jul 05 '26
Wait soo, the one that supposed to drive that purple gokart is make a wish kid?
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u/G24all2read Jul 07 '26
He pulled a 5 year old kid off his cart, tossed him aside and proceeded with living a shameful scam if a life.
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u/CheeseheadDave Jul 05 '26
Then they all forced him into the gravel halfway and we never saw him again.
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u/titelipsjonny Jul 05 '26
Just be glad he didn’t insist on driving the actual safety car
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u/Kobebeef9 Jul 05 '26
Or his only change to win and brag about it.
Fuck that guy.
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u/Apple_Slipper Jul 05 '26
It was hilarious to see several drivers basically baited him into beaching on the gravel.
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u/memesearches Jul 05 '26
A bumper car not even a proper go car. Bumper car with some throw away lego pieces stuck on it
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u/mastifftimetraveler Jul 05 '26
Lego probably refused to make him one because they didn’t want him in the marketing videos about the race. Yet here he is…
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u/Intelligent_Title_90 Jul 05 '26
So he can be closer to
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u/kelleehh Jul 05 '26
And Antonelli. He definitely has a type.
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u/Other_Engine4108 Jul 05 '26
I’m at the track and when he came round he was rear-ending Kimi whilst Kimi completely ignored him, he’s a creep
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u/Cutlass0516 Jul 05 '26
So does his pedo brother. Must run the the family. Something also about young boys in the middle east.....
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u/FrizB84 Jul 06 '26
I want to know what MBS said to Antonelli after the sprint race. Kimi was all smiles, then MBS said something to him and his face went flat. It was weird energy.
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u/Kryse-777 Jul 05 '26
if he cant keep his hands to himself, lando might choose to go bald next year
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u/Due_Air6702 Jul 05 '26
He just won’t go away💀
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u/Suspicious_Round2583 Jul 05 '26
He is the shit that won't flush.
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u/IllustriousHedgehog9 Jul 06 '26
As someone with IBS, I'm forever grateful it's not MBS. At least mine flushes.
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u/AwkwardJuggernaut854 Jul 05 '26
Won't be going away for a long while now that he has had the term limits removed.
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u/fredy31 Jul 05 '26
Dont get what he brings to the fia members so they all bend down to him this hard.
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u/AwkwardJuggernaut854 Jul 05 '26
FIA politics is basically just about promising the national racing bodies more money. That's really it, and from the looks of it he promised them the most.
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u/RoguePaladin8 Jul 05 '26
Here at the race , one of the marshals said
“They gave him a real go kart instead of the Lego because they would ram the fucker”
Everyone else laughed around , was great
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u/Arpadiam Jul 05 '26
my first thought watching this picture is, why nobody is ramming the shit out of him..
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u/SlickDamian Jul 05 '26
If fhey were going to have anyone besides the drivers, it should have been Bernd Mylander.
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u/No_Elderberry_4580 Jul 05 '26
Yes!
He is genuinely a great person to be an FIA representitive, if they wanted an FIA kart, have Bernd drive it, what a brilliant comment.
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u/Anxious-Froyo-5535 Jul 05 '26
Ruined the whole parade with unnecessary footage 😑 (also why does he keep touching people)?
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u/das_sparker Jul 05 '26
He and his brother love touching people without consent
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u/Somenoises Jul 05 '26
His brother, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem of the Epstein fiiles? The Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem who sent emails about his sexual experiences to Epstein and who Epstein thanked for sending a torture video after Epstein's conviction? That brother?
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u/PurbulentTriest Jul 05 '26
He was right behind Linblad I think it was, ramming into him repeatedly. Super weird.
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u/Apple_Slipper Jul 05 '26
Really annoyed at one section where the camera focused entirely on him. The F1 drivers are the stars, not him!
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u/HirsuteHacker Jul 05 '26
I was in the paddock this weekend, saw him touch Yuki's hair weirdly as well
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u/No_Elderberry_4580 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
Ruined the fun of the whole thing.
This scumbag thinking we want to see him and making the whole thing weird and uncomfortable, especially after removing the FIA president term limits.
Yuck, what a narcissist...
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u/Gogogodzirra Jul 05 '26
Sadly that got approved didn't it?
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u/No_Elderberry_4580 Jul 05 '26
Yes he has, the term limits have been abolished thanks to him.
Genuine narcissim.
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u/Sito13 Jul 05 '26
World Cup broadcast has the same energy. Every match where Infantino is he gets in the broadcast multiple times.
Freaking corruption everywhere. It’s about time we get rid of these people in the highest positions of sport associations.
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u/ReggieCorneus Jul 05 '26
It’s about time we get rid of these people in the highest positions
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u/FIuffyRabbit Jul 05 '26
Nah, he knows you don't want to seem him. The hate only makes him more powerful.
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u/Character_Minimum171 Jul 05 '26
he’s not a driver
it’s not even a Lego car
he needs to fuck right off
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Thinking he is part of the crew and guiding them around the track like the leader he thinks he is
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u/iusman975 Jul 05 '26
"As a fellow driver" - Making sure he can use this line for the next term also.
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u/racingskater Jul 05 '26
Narcissistic wannabe despot tyrant. Was hoping someone would ram him, but probably only Lewis and Max could get away with it.
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u/BassMasterSK Jul 05 '26
The guy in the class who thinks that he's cool, but in reality no one likes him, and everybody else is too afraid to tell the truth
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u/Scobo82 Jul 05 '26
When I first saw the FIA cart, I thought it was meant as the safety car(t) for Bernd Mailänder - which would have been a fun idea. But then I saw who entered...
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u/Just_a_passingby205 Jul 05 '26
Trying to recreate the crash he did with the Renault F1 car back then.
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u/KaiBetterThanTyson Jul 05 '26
“I love inside jokes, would love to be part of one some day”
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u/imtired-boss Jul 05 '26
Bro thinks he's Tony Stark jumping into a race he's got no business being in.
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u/Groundbreaking-Gate6 Jul 05 '26
Imagine him standing up in a meeting and telling the LEGO executives, "Even I want to drive a LEGO car, arrange it for me".
What a self-absorbed, ego-centric person.