How would a common Formula One fan describe Will Buxton? A journalist? A pundit? But, here’s something quite interesting! Turns out, that is not the case with the legendary American snowboarder, Shaun White, and his girlfriend, Nina Dobrev.
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The pair was one of the biggest guests to show up at the latest Monaco Grand Prix, with Dobrev, hanging around in the pit lane even after the weekend had come to a close, chatting with Mercedes’ leading boss, Toto Wolff, and several others . Such was the level of excitement that was residing in White and Dobrev over what was their first F1 Grand Prix visit.
2022 Beijing Olympics – Snowboard – Men’s Snowboard Halfpipe Final Run 3 – Genting Snow Park, Zhangjiakou, China – February 11, 2022. Shaun White of the United States reacts after his run. REUTERS/Mike Blake
If you’re wondering how they managed to treasure this sport, much like most American fans, it was Netflix’s Drive to Survive that inflicted the craze in the Olympian and his ‘The Vampire Diaries’ fame girlfriend.
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Hence, quite unsurprisingly, they also managed to view Buxton as one of the biggest entities of Formula One, thanks to his narration through the four-season series. To bolster this claim, here’s an interesting incident that apparently unfolded at the Monaco GP this year which left the British journalist absolutely awestruck.
The crazy reaction of Shaun White & Nina Dobrev when meeting Buxton
During an interview with Aimee Fuller, Buxton opened up about the effect that Netflix had on F1 and further disclosed his first encounter with the American-Canadian pair in Monte Carlo.
“Drive to survive, the Netflix series has blown up,” Fuller said before Buxton joined in.
“I know! The mad thing with it was my boss was just sort of walking through the office one day and he’s like, ‘Yo Will, okay we’re going to do this thing with Netflix and I need you to do some interviews for them’. And I thought he meant like interviewing the drivers. I go in and they are interviewing me and I was like, okay, this is weird.
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“But then the first series came out, and I was like, wow okay, this is really cool. It’s great!” Then arrived the most important part of the conversation—the incident featuring White and Dobrev.
Fuller started off by saying how non-motorsport fans have finally started to recognize Formula One in recent times and Buxton replied, “So, I was in Monaco…” Fuller immediately interrupted the Briton, saying, “I was gonna go there. Shaun White, a legend in my industry…never been to an F1…”
Buxton then continued, “His other half approached me, and she’s just like babe babe babe it’s will and then this guy comes across and he’s just like, ‘Oh my god! I love Drive to Survive’ and I looked at him and I was like Holy f*cking sh*t, you’re Shaun White!”
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The pair has managed to garner the love of F1 fans with their electrifying reactions throughout the weekend in Monte Carlo. So, will the snowboarding legend and the Canadian actress show up at any of the forthcoming racing events this year? Well, let’s hope they do!
