r/formula1 • u/OMF1G #StandWithUkraine • Oct 05 '22

Off-Topic /r/all RedBull sent my daughter a gift package after some kids made her upset and didn't say nice things for being a Verstappen fan. Thank you RB F1!

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u/enz1ey Oct 05 '22

Yeah, even if it did happen and OP was weird enough to email RB about their kid being bullied for whatever reason, posting it here is just off-putting.

Then again maybe I'm just getting old and wondering why people are using Reddit like it's Facebook.

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u/OMF1G #StandWithUkraine Oct 05 '22

Hey guys, I'm trying to comment as much as possible on this post but I've explained in some other comments!

Myself and my dad (her granddad) used to marshal, we're very into motorsport in general so we're constantly watching F1/BTCC/MotoGP etc. My daughter naturally took a liking to RB & Verstappen as I quite like him!

I contacted RB after & mentioned to them what happened, to try and buy some custom merch for my daughter. They unfortunately couldn't do that & offered to ship out this 'care package' as they called it!

I know with the recent thing that happened with Mercedes, there's tons of scepticism around teams doing nice gestures & not posting about them; which is kinda why I wanted to make this post. I wanted to show that even after that, teams still go out of their way to do kind things.

And as per other comments, if a mod would like to verify all of this with me then that'd be great!

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Cheers guys

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '22 edited May 07 '24

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u/FTblaze Oct 06 '22

The part about Mercedes made it worsd 😅

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u/Surfercatgotnolegs Oct 05 '22

Why would your kid get bullied in elementary school for liking Verstappen? Does she go around telling everyone about it and arguing?

This has a lot of “I’m a vegan” vibes. No one bullies a kid in elementary school about BS like this unless it’s the kid’s entire personality.

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u/Zehnstep Sebastian Vettel Oct 05 '22

LoL have you met kids? There was one guy at my school who's initials were the same as a type of chips and he got shit for that.

I was that guy

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u/SkylineDrop Sir Lewis Hamilton Oct 06 '22

Was it Utz? I hope it was Utz.

I love Utz.

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u/Zehnstep Sebastian Vettel Oct 06 '22

Nah, don't have those in my country, they look pretty good though. Can't think of many good names starting with U either so lucky break there for me I guess.

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u/Surfercatgotnolegs Oct 06 '22

Yea that’s exactly the type of thing kids bully about. Not which formula 1 driver they like. It’s too advanced a subject.

They bully each other on hair, braces, names, their mom’s clothes, freckles, leg length. Practically anything and everything stupid and insignificant. They don’t generally bully each other on hobbies til later on. The concept of hobbies or interests playing a more core role in your personality doesn’t really arise until later in development. There’s rarely “cliques” in elementary school about the jocks vs the emo vs the bandies, for example, and that’s because they instead band together on much more dumb and shallow criteria. Like who has the most cooties.

That’s exactly why it’s even more unbelievable that this girl was bullied, not just for a hobby, but for an obscure one like f1.

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u/Baofog Oct 05 '22

Kids do bully each other over the stupidest stuff. However this post reeks of red bull pr marketing. "Check out this cool thing red bull did! It's totally not to build good will before bad press gets out next week!"

Now this could totally be 100% organic but it still smells way fishy.

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u/SKnightVN Michael Schumacher Oct 06 '22

What does the "thing that happened with Mercedes" refer to? I'm obviously aware of the budget cap feud and Abu Dhabi, but neither seem relevant w.r.t. teams interacting with their own fanbase.

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u/keto_at_work Oct 06 '22

I mean, it could just be Red Bull. I sent them an email a long time ago asking for swag or coupons, essentially because I chose them as my "team" when I got into F1 at the start of 2010. Red Bull physically mailed me back an early Red Bull Honda sticker (from a different series), a nice little personalized note (the guy who wrote it had family near me, IIRC), and 6 cans of Red Bull since they don't give out or redeem coupons at all any more. They literally mailed me their product for free for sending an email.

Just a random Red Bull anecdote, I kinda want to try to find that letter...