Lindsey Vonn on F1 offer: Told I couldn’t have kids

Graham gets in the car with Lindsey Vonn, a self-proclaimed adrenaline junky. With Graham holding on tight, the pair head to the gym. Vonn says she enjoys driving, and even considered racing Formula 1, but didn’t want to commit to not starting her family. Plus, Vonn’s fiancé P.K. Subban calls and serenades Vonn before weighing in on her driving skills.
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[@rosek7114]

Max Verstappen started karting at 3 years old. Spent the next 14 years dedicating his life to getting into F1. Managed to get an F1 seat with Toro Rosso (Red Bull's second team) at 17 years old because he's such an exceptional talent. Then got a seat with RB at 18 years old, which was already incredibly early and basically unheard of. But yeah, I'm sure RB just offered a seat alongside him because she drove on an F1 track once😅 And then she was like 'Naww I wanna have kids...' She probably didn't mean it like that but that's the way she's making it sound and it really comes off disrespectful to those F1 drivers that dedicated their lives to getting into one of those highly coveted seats.

[@Bystronicman08]

She's delusional if she thought she ever had a chance in F1. That's not just a career that you can jump into. 0% that ever happened even if she had tried to do it

[@johnnytomahawk]

Its just driving lmao not too hard.

[@montxogandia]

@@johnnytomahawkxD sure go try compete with amateurs in a local go kart and then you tell me, how ignorant can someone be

[@SillySilly0001]

​@johnnytomahawk it's really hard, do not talk about things you don't know

[@RAIKKONEN111]

Would have thought that a world class athlete as herself would know what it takes to get to the very top of a sport. You can never underestimate the level of pro athletes in any sport, how easy it might even look sometimes. If you think you can drive fast, just go watch an F1 race or WRC in real life, you're nowhere near. There are way more car racers in the world (over all categories) than ski racers and F1 is the absolute pinnacle. You have to be the best of the best of the best to even get a chance to be considered for F1 (arguably the 20 best racing drivers in the world). It's like Lewis saying tomorrow he will switch to alpine ski racing at the world cup, imagine Lindsey's face, it's just ridiculous.

[@Akhiii_]

This is so cringe I can't even. Like Lindsey respect to you and your skiing career but 90% of things you said are a load of bs or can't justify even having the thought to join F1.

[@aaronmacrae6506]

She could have been born 10000 times and she would never make f1

[@DiegoRuiz1991]

The goddamn ego she has is INSANE. This is also the woman that said that she could compete against men and finish like top30 in downhill and super-G events.

[@yulmp2]

Lewis Hamilton could be born a million times and he would never win one World Cup downhill race. She won 43. F1 driving is way easier than World Cup downhill ski racing. Tennis is harder than F1.

[@duncanevy]

@@yulmp2 Look at a drivers training regime and see what you think then. Look at the G forces involved in racing. The extreme heat of some tracks and the mental game. None of the sports mentioned are easy.

[@justinlariviere]

@@yulmp2 obviously have no idea what the hell you’re talking about

[@whyaskmenoely25]

@@yulmp2 because carrying 5-6x your body weight at every braking point and corner for two hours during a race and being millimetrically between death and a better lap time 20 times a year, with little time to practise, amongst other things you have on your mind, is easier than hitting a ball for 4 hours at most every couple of days with plenty of practise. "Tennis harder than F1" Geez that is stupid. Tennis is great but you won't die and you won't have matches decided by grams. Neck training for F1 alone is brutal.

[@TheRumadbro]

Same with me. I was also thinking about going into Formula 1...... smh

[@Quickdraw811]

Max Verstappen vs Lindsay Vonn, I think Red Bull would stick with Max

[@steveflorida8699]

F1 champion driver does equate to being a competitive downhill skier. Likewise Vonn getting and becoming a Formula One driver is Nil. Vonn's Ego is naive about professional motorsports, and the racing experiences one has to have to be given a tryout for a F1 team.

[@Bahamuttiamat]

Love ya, but a 30 year old woman making it in f1 is about as likely as there being intelligent life on mars.

[@eriknaamot]

Well it was when she was younger ;) she drove the V6 World Series by Renault car, that is simular to F2 in 2016 :)

[@Bahamuttiamat]

@@eriknaamot Many athletes and celebs have driven f1 cars but none has ever attempted to join the sport. It simply isn't feasible. She's chatting shite.

[@eriknaamot]

@@Bahamuttiamat I know, but she is generally talking about gettibg into Racing. She knows that you just could not jump from Downhill to F1.

[@Bahamuttiamat]

@@eriknaamot Yeah you're probably right. Most americans cannot differentiate open wheel racing from f1. For them f1 is the entire category of motorsport (karting, f3,f2, etc.. Good point.

[@eriknaamot]

@@Bahamuttiamat Yeah :) That is too bad to hear. Motorsport is so much more then F1, Indycar & Nascar... :)

[@Sir.VicsMasher]

She's not going to have kids, she might buy one but no way is she going to get pregnant and deliver with her husband.

[@simoncoco1]

Good instincts... She's single now.

[@RxHoyt]

Vonn likes hearing herself talk.

[@michaelmather7352]

F1 shes got to be joking , F1 drivers have all come up through the diffrent classes of racing over years to get to the top, all starting very young.

[@deweywatts8456]

Now follow this eye roll 3:05, with Lindsey Vonn on Dwayne Johnson (Also by Graham Bensinger)

[@ace1gl]

I always find this so disrespectful of the people that can do things at elite levels to think they can just do something else at an elite level. The amount of time and work you put into your craft to be great at it is the same amount that they put into theirs to be great at it. Sorry you just can't show up and take a make up class.

[@alwarberigai5955]

I have a saying for this, ignorance is the devil dancing on your head and you don’t realise fire is burning your feet... she is disrespectful to any aspiring F1 driver who is putting their balls on the line to get an F1 seat.. she is way off in her attitude!! And Harvard!! That’s straight up insult

[@jonathanfunnell4167]

COOL

[@justinlariviere]

A lot of people “think about doing F1” you know lmao. That nonchalant tone of entitlement is so demeaning to actual F1 drivers with talent and a genuine commitment to excellence and not just interviews with a nobody

[@JeffWallick]

She's an incredible and accomplished athlete. All respect to her because she'd earned it. But there's a zero percent chance she is capable of making it to the F1 grid. That requires a genuine lifelong pursuit and decades of commitment. It's not a mid-career transition. In a similar scenario, the same would be true for a man as well.

[@cro9909]

decades of commitment? You realise f1 drivers are like 20 right?

[@richardpare3538]

@@cro9909 OK - so maybe a decade and a half, since most started racing at 5 years old.

[@perussaataja]

Ok, as a lifelong F1-fan, here are few points: the car she tried in Spielberg was not a Formula 1 car, it was Forumula Renault, sponsored by Red Bull! Formula Renault is one of the series you race on your LONG way to F1. Red Bull would NEVER offer her a F1 drive after a test in a Formula Renault car, that is sure. What they probably offered was a deal in Red Bull junor programme in smaller series. They groom future F1 drivers (Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz are products of that for example) in the junior programme. Also, I assume she did not mean it that way, but she comes off extremely disrespectful towards real F1 drivers: as if you can just enter the series when you decide to change your career.

[@ciaranlynch2128]

I'm assuming she was given the opportunity to try out driving on a track, due to red bull sponsors, and told them she was slightly interested going into driving. And they gave her a reality check telling her they dont think she understands how much of a commitment it is and how she'd have to build up to it and it would take years to get there even if she was good enough . I don't think she meant to say they offered her a spot driving for them, just that she talked to red bull about it

[@richgibb5729]

Exactly. From a commitment standpoint, I don't think you can question her mettle. The injuries she had would bring out the b!tch in most of these dudes hating. Could she succeed probably 1:100 chance, but with there is a chance. I doubt her joints could take it after her ski career.

[@samsonian]

@@richgibb5729 I think your assessment gives short shrift to the fact 100% of the drivers in F1 (including the guys that never go anywhere close to winning races) have been living, breathing and dreaming car racing/moto racing (for some, don’t forget Surtees was World Champ on 2 wheels, too) nearly every moment they weren’t on the track either practicing or racing from the age of what, 8 or 9 in a go kart? TBH, I think F1 would ultimately just frustrate Lindsey. If RedBull wanted to assess her promise in the world of auto racing I think they would be much better served sending her off to train next to Pastrana or with other rally masters and she wouldn’t even have to leave the country: both dirtfish and O’Neil are great places to learn it and TBH I think it would be more her style in terms of not requiring 3 years of putting her life on hold...she’s already done enough of that for 20 years on the World Cup. Besides, with rally she can show her flying ability!

[@tomchurchouse5283]

Didn't realise skiing gives you super licence points. Might try it

[@stefanstangl7545]

I call bs

[@Kendell062]

I shake my head and smile when a athlete who was great in their sport thinks they can do another.

[@johnnytomahawk]

Driving is hard now? Lmao ok

[@mactalk2871]

@@johnnytomahawkdriving? No. Driving quick? Yes. Have you ever gone karting? Like trying to actually beat your best time?

[@dpsss100]

@@johnnytomahawk apparently running ain't hard as well, right? So why are you not running for the 100 m sprint in Olympics? Lmao

[@maniac2323]

Not the most intelligent comments going on in that car... I mean, come on, it's F1.

[@mohitjain2157]

No way is she making it in F1 , even if she trains for years straight

[@donschlafrythmus2357]

Imagine her reaction to a retired F1 driver who occasionally goes skiing with his wife claiming he was thinking about competing in the world cup... She is delusional and disrespectful if she thinks she could ever even dream coming close to F1

[@stuarcari]

I'm confused by the F1 stuff and who was telling her she'd have to commit etc. Most professional racing drivers who are amongst the best in the world and have dedicated their lives to since they were about 6 years old struggle to get into F1. Its not just something that you switch to because you fancied trying it after ending your main career in your 30's. Im sure she's a great driver, but there is no chance she was getting anywhere near an F1 contract as a main driver in a Red Bull. Maybe she had a chance at some lower single seat series for Red Bull. Not trying to hate on her, but nobody switches from skiing to F1.

[@juicenot2481]

It was a publicity thing

[@DaggerSecurity]

@@juicenot2481 THIS! Exactly. They were going to leverage her popularity and looks.

[@mwilk19]

@@arbyfc A little?

[@calvincooley1074]

Ok, so lets see an F1 driver go from F1 to Super G downhill skiing. Hmmmmm

[@juicenot2481]

@@calvincooley1074 easy

[@castilloc1]

How clueless... “I thought of racing F1”

[@hieuluu2]

As a F1 fan, that's pretty insulting to hear in many levels, especially the "woman's card". First, you don't just wake up one day and decided to become a F1 driver, there's never been in the history of F1 that some 20 or 30 year old entering F1 from the streets, just as someone walking off the streets never seen snow and decided to entered the Olympics Down Hill Skiing. Drivers start at an early age, some as young as 6 in go-kart, they spent a years developing their skills, they need to understand engineering and aerodynamics, they must give feedbacks to fine tuned their karts. If you are lucky, you make it to F3, then F2, and finally F1. There's a total 60 seats in F1, F2, and F3, those 60 drivers, tops in the world are all fighting for the 20 seats available in F1, what makes Vonn think she can beat these 60 drivers that's been racing all their lives? Now I believed the part of Red Bull Racing, but Vonn is exaggerating a bit. Red Bull 2 teams, F1 and F2, they also have the Red Bull Academy, where young drivers are committed to a 3-4 year program, they live within the academy, they breath and live racing, but they all start at the bottom. 3 levels of Kart racing in the Junior Academy before they can moved onto Red Bull Academy. This would be Vonn's starting point, Junior Academy, understanding go-kart, physics and g forces, settings, etc...and like many other Junior Drivers, they are committed to the program, so Vonn is using the woman's card of, I can't do this, I would have been an F1 driver, but because I want kids, I decided to pass on an F1 career at 30 years old with zero experience.

[@NSteigs]

Dude same, I laughed so hard when she started talking about how she would've been an F1 driver but after talking just decided it wasn't for her😂

[@mtadams2009]

I know nothing about racing but not everyone has the same learning curve. Jimi Hendrix only played 12 years all in. He was pretty much great from the start with a very small learning curve. I am sure she would have worked her way up but who knows. I am sure it would have made a lot of press and been good for Red Bull and in the end its all about the money.

[@NSteigs]

@@mtadams2009 very great points and normally I would 100% agree. Unfortunately F1 racing is just a breed of its own. In addition to being probably the most competitive (in the sense of being hard to get into) sport on earth it is extremely prestigious in the way horse racing or something like that is. It takes big money and decades of impressing people in the lower ranks of motorsport to even have a chance of getting a low level drive seat in F1. The chances of her ever getting a seat at Red bull (the number two team in F1 right now) even if she put her everything in to it would be impossibly small to non-existent.

[@mohitjain2157]

@@mtadams2009 Playing a guitar and driving an F1 car are two different things. She won't be able to complete one clean lap in an F3 car forget about F1

[@MrDLRu]

I agree, but it's all about star power and the money draw these days. She would have definitely done that and have done it better than Danica, as just from listening to her in this interview, she loves speed. Danica seemed to be in it as just a good paying job, more so than for the love of speed.

[@mattrc77]

This lady has no chance in F1, not because she's a woman more because you have to start off driving in europe at a very young age in the junior series to even be considered.

[@jodyrolandconstruction6577]

Pretty sure it’s because she is a woman. 🤷‍♂️

[@danielzorovich1362]

You would think that someone at the top of their craft like Lindsey would understand the effort and commitment that goes into getting there. She of all people, would know better than to say such things. Girl’s gott issues.

[@isDatBoi]

You guys pls stop juging her.. she probably good at F1 without we know it, maybe she can beat Lewis record.. also we got F3, F2 as well, she can start with Gokart with the kids first to see if she capable on winning the podium

[@helmuttdvm]

Is she that insane thinking that she can just jump into F1 or NASCAR? Even Danika Patrick spent years in go carts and lesser formulas before getting professional rides, and her GoDaddy exposure and backing helped her career immensely.

[@justinlariviere]

And she wasn’t even that good

[@proudbeaner3576]

I'm sorry but saying she could've gone to F1 right away is a joke. Like she would be losing to 11 year olds in kart racing please

[@anonymoususer1824]

And currently 37 years old with neither a husband nor kids anywhere in sight. Whatever you gotta tell yourself Lindsey..

[@rogerwhiting9310]

And now PK is just a memory. Being in relationships with famius people certainly takes big leaps... good and bad.

[@krispy3790]

shes joking right😂😂

[@wildlive1296]

Yeah jump right into F1 and compete with elite drivers who worked their way up through the racing ranks from childhood 🙄 She's either extremely naive or egotistical.

[@gestapo81]

kids enter karting at 4,5...9 yo. A skier is offered a job at the first drive on track...totally real.

[@chrismyco7950]

tim tebow, michael jordan mark gastineu, deion sanders, if you famous enough you can ski the line, because there is money to be made from the person even tryinng, regardless of whether or not they succeed

[@snafu22]

this is what happens in todays world when women are deluded by their feminist narrative that “they can do anything”. No, they cant. 20 of the most skilful and talented drivers in the world who have dedicated most of their lives to the sport get to line up on the grid of F1………i have not even talked about F2, F3 and junior and other up and coming categories. what an egotistical fruit loop.

[@brianhetzer8421]

Zero percent chance she could be an F1 driver. This was all a joke. No way anyone would seriously consider her a candidate to drive one of only 20 seats at the highest level of auto racing over young drivers who have been racing since they were literally in kindergarten, with even more former drivers that would jump at the chance to get another seat. What a bunch of bullshit.

[@marcusdeleo7145]

Guys, its the whole "media telling women they are better then men", thing. Some of these bimbos actually believe it cause they saw it being done in a movie. Too funny. And sooo sad.

[@axjohn]

Well we now officially know Tiger screwed her brains out. Her a F1 driver just because she skis fast and drives in the Autobahn? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@alysonsneyd3401]

Graham...you looked a little nervous!

[@ANDREWF891]

Everyone's gangsta, doing it for the love, until they realise peeps get Mo money in another sport...

[@benevenden8035]

i did a track day once so yh i’m basically a f1 driver too lol, i know she is very good at her sport but as others have said you don’t just “switch” to f1, thats like sebastian vettel saying “i did a few ski lessons so now i can go straight into the world championships”, graham looked stunned when she said it like “lol...oh wait you actually believe this”

[@markorollo.]

I know this isn't high on the list of importance in comparison to things she's done but she is nice to look at....

[@vladislavgritcyshin]

НАСТОЯЩИЙ ДРУГ LINDSEY С БОЛЬШИМ УВАЖЕНИЕМ ОТНОШЕНИЕМ! ХОРОШАЯ НАКЛЕЙКА! Я РАД ЧТО МЫ ПО-НАСТОЯЩЕМУ ОЧЕНЬ ДОБРЫЕ НАСТОЯЩИЕ ! СЕЙЧАС 21:14 НАХВАТАЕТ ЗАРЯДА КАК В ЭЛЕКТРОННОЙ БАТАРЕЕ ЧТО-ТО ВРОДЕ ЭТОГО ДА Я ОБРАТИЛ ВНИМАНИЕ МЕСТО ОЧЕНЬ РАЗРЯЖЕННОЕ НЕ ПОДХОДИТ ! ХОРОШЕГО ОТДЫХА ! ❤

[@terriesales]

He looks nervous. Too funny! And, she drives with one hand fast.

[@bwoah525]

Sure she could do F1, she would just be 20 seconds off the pace

[@dheerajrao8366]

They actually they she would made F1 wat a joke.

[@anonymoususer1824]

Have kids? She can't even keep a man LOL

[@donarmstrong4166]

F1...give me a break. What a joke, and she has been for many years now.

[@mgoode180566]

Confusing F1 with a kitchen 🤣

[@HooyahPeacock]

130 on the autobahn is the slow lane

[@wildlive1296]

Ikr? She only went 130 mph in a freaking R8. I've went 125 mph in a rented diesel Mercedes wagon on the autobahn, which isn't much of an accomplishment either.

[@ski6712]

F1......? what !! noooo.......first off learning to race a full blown twin engine race cart on a sprint track would be a baby step and for most people these are fast and furious. ex alpine ski racers have been known to be good race drivers and a friend of mine drove the trans am series which speeds of 185 mph are part of it. the age race drivers start to learn is early on just like world cup ski racers.Lindsey Vonn was one of the greatest ski racers of all time now retired and should start the family she would love to have . i still remember when she burst onto the world cup ski race scene and was still racing slalom at a elite level. just keep your fitness level up and try trail running if thats possible given the injuries from the past and learn backcountry powder skiing using climbing skins. i have gotten the best skiing ever in the remote mountains with this equipment from mind bending extreme steeps ( 55-60 DEGREES) to deep powder and worth every penny and there is no speed limit out there away from lift served ski resorts. just learn about mountain alpinism and rejuvenate your love of skiing/adrenaline.

[@phillysphinest3946]

This chick talking about the autobahn.. I was doing 136 in a 350z before I had to focus on the road ... on I-95 , goofball

[@NillerMann]

“F1 offer” 😂😂😂

[@vladislavgritcyshin]

! ❤

[@wingfieldm]

Delusional...

[@user-fg8up7ps9b]

LIndsey is hottt as hell! All the best to you and PK. By the way, Lewis Hamilton is the highest paid driver in the world at 50 million plus pounds per year.

[@shaft2213]

She could've been a glorified mascot, lol. She could've run around with that red bull thing on her head lmao

[@jimjonrs3932]

F1.......😂

[@Agent77X]

F1 is easy and Von can win it easily! After she goes that fast downhill!

[@joshuabee2778]

Pk won't let lindsey out his sight smh that shit is crazy

[@tommynikon2283]

Lindsey COULD do F1.....because she has "speed perception and attenuation". She's COMFORTABLE....going fast. That skillset is harder to master than the mechanics of the actual driving. And she could kick Danica's ass....and legacy to the curb.

[@castilloc1]

I think it is easier for Trump to beat the Marathon World Record. 🤘🤣

[@HooyahPeacock]

F1 with team red bull would be nothing but for publicity

[@thinkpanzer6690]

she s so materielistic

[@Viper81able]

Haha, that’s just BS.

[@mottom2033]

Lol

[@mottom2033]

Lol

[@mottom2033]

Lol

[@jonp34]

Totally lost interest with that F1 comment. Utterly ridiculous comment

[@hieuluu2]

Vonn thinks she's in that Tom Cruise movie, Edge of Tomorrow, where she can relived her mistakes, died, and then tried again, except Vonn can redo it a million times and still can't an f1 car.

[@carlomagnojamisola4052]

Huh?! Ohhhhh F1 🤔

[@savedbygrace8337]

Lindsay is actually living it,and the armchair critics all have negative comments.

[@justinlariviere]

The armchair critics probably know what they’re talking about unlike her lmao, F1 is like chess on a rollercoaster and she doesn’t exactly seem like F1 material given those comments in that car

[@christianmarche993]

All these "negative" (but true) comments but no one acknowledges that she'd probably slay Danica Patrick in the first race.

[@jbflynn4134]

these comments are like "you cant do f1" thats fine because she is the greatest of all time in skiing which is a real sport unlike playing with go-karts

[@russellhawkins366]

She could have done F1 because she understands that most critical of aspects called “the race line” - which is vital to understand.

[@hamiam2243]

I started ski racing ,switch to motorcycle racing ,and went to automobile racing . The line of what is fast and too fast is the same. A roll cage for somebody like Lindsay Vonn would be like us playing with Kids toys.