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TIL that when F1 driver Pedro Rodriguez won the 1967 South African Grand
Prix, becoming the first ever Mexican driver to win an F1 race, the
organizers didn't have the Mexican anthem, and instead played the
Mexican hat dance. After that, Rodriguez always traveled with a record
of the anthem with him
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|u/blockfighter1 - 1 day
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|When Jordan F1 won their first race in 1998 in Belgium, they didn't have
|the Irish anthem either.
|u/healthybowl - 22 hours
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|iPods and YouTube really helped move things along
|u/Intelligent_Dig_8216 - 19 hours
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|Except that one time, [when…](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-
|east-17491344.amp)
|u/thatguy425 - 18 hours
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|I knew it was going to be this before clicking, That was so great
|u/A_Queer_Owl - 5 hours
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|they should've made up a country for those movies. it would've
|still worked because Americans don't know shit about geography and
|it would've been funnier because you'd have dumb Americans being
|like "oh yeah, Boobistan, that's definitely a place."
|u/Rufusisking - 1 day
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|Say what you want, but that tune jams.
|u/Sacojerico - 21 hours
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|It gets the people goin!
|u/cornfieldshipwreck - 21 hours
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|It’s provocative!
|u/SimilarElderberry956 - 1 day
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|This reminds me of the song Edelweiss from the sound of Music. It was
|thought by many people to be an Austrian folk song or even a national
|anthem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelweiss_(song)
|u/healthybowl - 22 hours
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|Very nice
|u/FakeAorta - 1 day
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| What would they play for the USA if our national anthem was not
|available? 'Take Me Out To The Ball Game' maybe!
|u/MrLazyLion - 21 hours
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|Born in the USA.
|u/FakeAorta - 16 hours
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|Ahh. The Irony of Americans using 'Born in the USA' as a rah rah
|song!
|u/ArnassusProductions - 17 hours
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|[Well, there was that one high school in Australia who played the
|theme to Hawaii 5-0.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zftKpiI6_sI)
|u/Benyed123 - 21 hours
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|I’d say Amazing Grace, it’s a bit less comical though.
|u/phobosmarsdeimos - 14 hours
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|America Fuck Yeah!
|u/FakeAorta - 9 hours
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|I would piss myself laughing if they played the Team America theme
|song!
|u/Adler4290 - 20 hours
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|Money, Money, Money by ABBA
|u/-705- - 18 hours
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|Money - Pink Floyd or Highway to Hell - ACDC
|u/Adler4290 - 17 hours
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|> Highway to Hell - ACDC Love that one LOL Definitively not
|"Stairway to Heaven" right now.
|u/JLWilco - 22 hours
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|Just like when Tazio Nuvolari won the 1935 German Grand Prix. The Nazis
|were so sure the race would be won by their shiny new Mercedes/Auto
|Union cars and Aryan drivers, but Nuvolari won the race in a four year
|old Alfa Romeo. They didn't have a copy of the Italian national anthem
|to play when he won, so Nuvolari walked back to his car, reached in and
|took out a recording of the song and handed it over for the race
|officials to play.
|u/alwaysfatigued8787 - 1 day
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|They only played that song because when he Juan, he got out of his car
|he did a victory dance around his helmet.
|u/Rufusisking - 1 day
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|See, you have to come to the comments to get the right answer.
|u/Boozdeuvash - 21 hours
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|He was truly number Juan that day.
|u/Fragrant-Luck-8063 - 17 hours
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|Formula Juan.
|u/ketamine-wizard - 21 hours
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|Reminds me of the time [the Borat theme was played for Kazakh
|athletes](https://youtu.be/MR18Pzbf-nY)
|u/Landlubber77 - 1 day
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|*Pierre Gasly likes this*
|u/MrFrode - 1 day
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|And he was never without a hat.
|u/Born-Sky-5980 - 10 hours
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|When Alan Jones won his 1st race in 1977, they played "Happy Birthday"
|on a trumpet. They didn't know the National Anthem for Australia (at the
|time) was God Save the Queen.
|u/April_Fabb - 17 hours
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|Reminds me of when the Welsh Guard decided to play [the Imperial
|March](https://www.military.com/video/forces/military-foreign-
|forces/welsh-guard-plays-imperial-march/1775480718001) from Star Wars
|when the Saudi King visited Queenie. I hope they'll play [Entrance of
|the Gladiators](https://youtu.be/wAJ66ZSQ4b4?t=168) if Trump shows up
|again.
|u/Matman161 - 1 day
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|Given that it was South Africa in the 60s he was lucky they didn't slash
|his tires and spit in his face for not being white.
|u/jctwok - 22 hours
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|Sorry to burst your bubble, but Pedro Rodríguez de la Vega was white.
|u/HomemPassaro - 22 hours
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|A lot of people in the Northern hemisphere have trouble
|understanding that there are white people in latino countries.
|Latino is a cultural identity, not an ethnicity. There are black
|latinos, indigenous latinos, white latinos, asian latinos and people
|with mixed heritages.
|u/Matman161 - 16 hours
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|I'm aware of that I just didn't know from that picture geeze.
|u/manamara1 - 21 hours
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|No. For South African apartheid regime, that wasn’t white enough.
|In the US, Italians and Spanish weren’t considered sufficiently
|white. Irish were also lumped here. It’s gets murky for racial
|delineation.
|u/CoercedCoexistence22 - 19 hours
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|In South Africa all people of European descent, including white
|south Americans, were considered white Apartheid worked like
|this, you had this hierarchy from top to bottom: whites (all
|Europeans), Indians (people from British India who immigrated to
|South Africa), Coloureds (simplifying for brevity, basically mixed
|people) and Blacks (the native population) It was a different
|system from what happened in America (with segregation and the one
|drop rule and all), which is what you're alluding to, and it's
|frankly disrespectful to lump the two together
|u/pureluxss - 21 hours
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|He never won again…
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