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F1 use 'best race ever' tweet sent hours BEFORE Chinese GP, and it only gets weirder

Matthew Scott Sunday 14 April 2019 12:43 Updated: 12:49

F1 use 'best race ever' tweet sent hours BEFORE Chinese GP, and it only gets weirder

Formula 1 is a weird and wonderful world sometimes, whether on the track or off it, but this is definitely hitting the red when it comes to the sport's oddness. It appears that F1 used a tweet sent BEFORE the Chinese GP to fill the video board in the drivers' cooldown room – and the tweeter has some serious previous.

In recent years the cooldown room has become as highly marketed as every other inch of a circuit.

Video screens have become commonplace, where tweets from fans – well… 'fans' – are displayed while the podium drivers grab a drink.

Hat tip to WTF1's Tom Bellingham for noticing that F1 were using an employee's tweet to talk up what was, quite frankly, a pretty dull race on the occasion of the 1000th World Championship event.

So the race was so dull that F1 had to get their own employees to tweet about it for the screen in the cool down room? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/DpxJN21x2z
— Tom Bellingham (@TommyWTF1) April 14, 2019

A light internet searching reveals that the account in question appears to belong to an employee in F1's IT department.

And now, this is where things get even weirder.

Did you spot the time on the China GP tweet? It was sent about eight hours before the race started!

And there's some serious previous too…

This seems to be his thing. Very odd. pic.twitter.com/PCPs0jE0kL
— Müs (@muesman) April 14, 2019

Utterly, utterly bizarre.

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F1 use 'best race ever' tweet sent hours BEFORE Chinese GP, and it only gets weirder

F1 use 'best race ever' tweet sent hours BEFORE Chinese GP, and it only gets weirder