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F1 Twitter Steps Into Elon Musk’s Shoes With Ambitious Replies to $44 Billion Question

ByDivyansh Priyadarshi

Apr 27, 2022 | 3:44 PM EDT

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In recent times, an Esports company by the name of Veloce has been carving out a name for itself in the F1 community. They have several famous personalities associated with the organization, with the most notable being Lando Norris. Recently, they have tweeted out a question that has the F1 community entertained at the moment.

If you had $44 billion laying around which current F1 team would you buy and why?#F1
— Veloce (@VeloceEsports) April 26, 2022

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F1 fans spam Veloce’s tweet with some interesting and hilarious answers

Recently, Veloce tweeted out to their fans posing the question of which F1 would they buy if they had $44B lying around? Subsequently, the fans have come up with varied responses. Some of them are plain hilarious, whereas some have been given some thinking. This American spent a minute making up his mind.

I’d buy Haas. Probably the only team willing to sell atm. I’d then buy Volkswagen and make a new engine for my team. Rebuild the team and base it out of texas. We would have cota as close as possible. One of the best tracks to test slow mid and fast speeds long straights and etc
— RsLpz 🇩🇴 (@RussLopz) April 26, 2022

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Another such fan opinion was to buy and do crazy things, for instance, dominate the world of motorsports with the 2 Red Bull-powered teams.

However, another very popular opinion was to see more female drivers in F1. In fact, the comments section showed how some would use this $44 billion to bring more women into the sport.

I'd create one, w/ cars driven by women even if they were not that great because who cares because I have $44B! And, our cars would be red, pink, black and our sponsors would all be feminine hygiene products and pregnancy tests and Planned Parenthood, and it would be awesome.
— BLTotes (@BarstoolBT) April 26, 2022

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@fwrrari_fwends Hell, I would sponsor so many female drivers and PoC to have a genuine shot at a seat.
— Elise (@ElisevanderWiel) April 26, 2022

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Of course, there were also some mind-boggling responses to the question.

With $44 B, one can buy all F1 teams (combined worth ~$10B), entire RedBull (~$15B), atleast 10 race tracks (~$15B based on locations), and still have money to privatize and organize F1 races, and make more money out of it.
— Nitin Agarwal (@nitin_driftRT) April 27, 2022

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You can easily buy them all, matter of fact you can buy f1 itself multiple times over
— Simon Weigang (@CRGSimon) April 26, 2022

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Meanwhile, a few fans had interesting takes on starting their own teams.

i’m not buying, i’m starting a new team called honey badger racing 👍🏼 https://t.co/7ENfKGEIxM
— ece ③ (@ricciardopics) April 27, 2022

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I’d make my own team and bring in Verstappen and Leclerc https://t.co/Co20kkpcpQ
— Jack (@JackDale_98) April 27, 2022

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What would you do if you had $44 Billion and free rein over the world of F1?

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Lando Norris: a part of Veloce Esports

Lando Norris is one of the drivers who is massively involved in the gaming community and the world of Twitch. The McLaren driver even launched his own gaming and lifestyle brand named Quadrant in coordination with Veloce Esports.

The Briton can be regularly seen on twitch streaming alongside Veloce streamers in his downtime. Additionally, Lando also takes part in multiple Veloce organized races.

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Watch This Story: Shortest F1 drivers ever featuring Yuki Tsunoda and Lando Norris

Although he is not officially signed to Veloce, Norris is often joined by other YouTube sensations like Tiametmarduk and Aarava to name a few. As a whole, recently, the racing E-sports community has been doing brilliantly, and it keeps going from strength to strength.