Christian Horner’s lucky toilet
“Oh, he must be held up waiting for his lucky toilet.”
I’m not a big Barstool fan, but PFT and Big Cat are very good at what they do and they do what they do without doing the other doings that people often associate with Barstool.
Because of their approach, podcast guests often talk about things they might not with other media folks.
I was quite excited to see Christian Horner listed as a guest ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix. The interview ran long because Christian seemed to be having fun, which led to this interesting reveal (58:34 to 1:00:30).
Horner: “I have like a lucky toilet at each track we go to, and I have to make sure that I go to pee in that luck toilet before the race.” […] “Most places it’s ok because we've got our own motorhome and it's fine, but somewhere like Brazil… 25 toilets, 24 of them are empty and the lucky one is full, you look kind of weird hanging around the toilets waiting to go on the lucky toilet.”
PFT: “No, I get that, so they bring the same toilets. It's like Kim Jong-un …that has toilet train that they drive all around.”
Horner: “No, no they don’t take the toilets everywhere. I mean we go to a different region you know when we come to Austin. I'll pick one, you know, one toilet and again, ‘Okay… that's my lucky toilet for the weekend.”
PFT: “Does your team know?”
Horner: “So, it changes from race to race. I don't take the same one with me to every grand prix.”
Big Cat: “But does your team know, like ‘Hey where's Christian? Where's the boss?’ Like, ‘Oh, he must be held up waiting for his lucky toilet.’”
Horner: “I don't know about that; you know they’re so… well you guys want to know about this superstition. So, you know, they wouldn't have a clue.”