Just call it the new “B*tchslap Seen ‘Round The World.”
FTW caught video footage of Indianapolis Motor Speedway chairperson Mari Hulman George having to swat away a woman standing next to her on stage who attempted to hijack the coveted “Start Your Engines” command.
Watch the opening of the bid, and you can see the blond-haired, white-clad lady inching closer and closer over George’s shoulder as if readying to make the command on her own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma4yk_WkUVg
Sporting News appropriately likened the moment this other woman swooped in on George to “blowing out someone else’s birthday candles.” We are hard-pressed to not agree 100-percent.
To make the moment even more awkward, George raised her slender-fingered hand up and batted the intruder away from the microphone to finish the call on her own.
We have yet to find a report of who this other woman is. But she is probably getting an earful from George’s posse.