F1 Messed Up The Start Line Painting In Las Vegas And It’s Hilarious – WTF1
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F1 Messed Up The Start Line Painting In Las Vegas And It’s Hilarious

So, as we’ve mentioned, the opening shindig for the Las Vegas Grand Prix was an utterly mad affair. And according to F1, organising enormous live events, live broadcasts, and managing the pinnacle of motorsport is perfectly doable. But painting the chequered pattern of a start/finish line? Nope, too complicated.

Because of the symbolic nature of the start/finish line, F1 arranged for a series of promotional images to be taken of Stefano Domenicali (F1 President and CEO), Greg Maffei (Liberty Media CEO) and several others painting the line.

See if you can spot the error in the video below 👀

The phrase ‘you had one job’ does spring to mind when you see someone clearly painted in the wrong box. But then again, I’ve never had to paint a start line, so maybe it’s more complicated than it looks.

Take a look at the second photo Kym Illman posted to see just how messy it was!

It’s all the more embarrassing as they all had their names written on where they needed to paint – whoops! Hopefully they’ll be able to sort the mistake before F1 goes racing next November.

This incident has a very similar vibe to Apple CEO Tim Cook’s attempt to wave the chequered flag at the end of the US Grand Prix. Please, famous and important people, just a little bit of effort next time!

Could you successfully paint a start/finish line?

4 thoughts on “F1 Messed Up The Start Line Painting In Las Vegas And It’s Hilarious

  • Alexander Klimetschek says:

    Looking at the last tweet video I can totally see what happened: they (I count at least 2 mistakes) saw their name in the above box and painted in the empty one below. Why not? They worked in isolation as they painted all at the same time and they did not see any pattern left and right yet…

  • How did they screw up the easiest part? All I wanted was a perfect line of white stuff. Wait a moment-

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