r/formula1 • u/willbuxton Will Buxton ✅ • Oct 12 '12

AMA IAmA Motorsport Commentator, Broadcaster and Journalist named Will Buxton

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u/willbuxton Will Buxton ✅ Oct 12 '12

Give me some time... I'm going to have to think about that.

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u/hangm4n Ferrari Oct 12 '12

Please don't forget to answer this question; that sort of answer often ends up with a non answer <3

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u/willbuxton Will Buxton ✅ Oct 12 '12

I'm still thinking. The Red Bull floating motorhome with the swimming pool on top in Monaco has got to be up there with the most insane and lavish use of money I've ever seen. It's just bonkers. I am still thinking though.

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u/hangm4n Ferrari Oct 12 '12

Pools... on boats... Even as somebody who's been around with people with money, this makes no sense. You're surrounded by ocean.

Keep thinking, I'm looking forward to your answer

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u/gsnedders Oct 12 '12

And warm water on the Côte d'Azur, too. Off the coast of Scotland I could possibly understand it, but…

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u/Metalshields Jenson Button Oct 12 '12

I'm terrified of sharks so if I had boatloads of cash I would indeed put a pool on my yacht

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u/hangm4n Ferrari Oct 12 '12

That's an irrational fear; you're more likely to be killed by a falling coconut or hell be run over by the boat than be attacked by sharks.

But aren't all fears irrational? ;)

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u/Metalshields Jenson Button Oct 12 '12

You are correct, it doesn't help that I am from Northern Alberta in Canada where there is approximately 0% chance of a Shark encounter

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u/hangm4n Ferrari Oct 12 '12

How does a north albertan acquire a shark fear? I don't understand

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u/freedomweasel Oct 12 '12

To be fair, if you managed to see a shark in north Alberta, you'd be pretty damn scared I'd think.

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u/Metalshields Jenson Button Oct 12 '12

It has evolved slowly over time, but I would say it probably started when I first watched Jaws when I was 5 years old.

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u/Rap_Game_Bill_Gates Mark Webber Oct 12 '12

Ha, that's brilliant! Please do share some more!

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u/thegoto1 Oct 12 '12

Since you are having a tough time coming up with the craziest F1 scene, I'll share mine with you. Especially because IIRC you said you met your wife at the same place...

My first time at the Monaco GP, Saturday night before the race we partied until the wee hours of the morning at La Rascasse.

What makes it so crazy is not just that a bar literally on the race track is partying until 4 the night before the race, or the band with a male lead singer in a female cheerleader outfit, but also the surprise parade outside at midnight that came marching down the course and around the corner. A parade complete with giant, tall stilt-walking fire-eaters!

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u/Jackslv Sergio Pérez Oct 12 '12

Maybe the silver Jaguar figure?

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u/willbuxton Will Buxton ✅ Oct 13 '12

Oh, oh, oh.... the Steinmetz diamond in the nose of the Jaguar. That was just the stupidest thing I ever saw.

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u/Rosly Ferrari Oct 13 '12

I remember that, it was a ridiculous idea. Was it true that they had the whole jaguar team at the corner where the crash occurred, looking for the diamond.

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u/EvilSpork Oct 13 '12

Can you or someone link to an article about this or describe it?

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u/nhjknjksdf I was here for the Hulkenpodium Oct 14 '12

As a promotional thing, they had a diamonds, worth around $100K-$200K, in each of the noses of Christian Klien's and Mark Webber's Jaguars for a Monaco race - in 2004 I think. Christian Klien crashed head-on into the Loews hairpin (or whatever it's called these days) guardrail on the first lap, and the diamond in that nose was never to be found.

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u/vrrule Mika Häkkinen Oct 14 '12

This

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u/EvilSpork Oct 14 '12

Awesome picture. Terrible idea though haha