Jimmy Fallon sent a takeaway pizza to Domenicali's Michelin-starred Miami GP dinner table

Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has revealed that Jimmy Fallon gatecrashed his Michelin-starred business dinner at the Miami Grand Prix — not in person, but via a takeaway pizza delivered to his table at The Surf Club, chef Thomas Keller’s restaurant at the Hard Rock Stadium complex.

Domenicali shared the story during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, where the pair looked back on Fallon’s first F1 experience at Miami earlier this year.

The two had already met outside Domenicali’s paddock office that afternoon. When they crossed paths again at The Surf Club that evening, Fallon had finished his meal while Domenicali was still waiting — enduring what he described as a lengthy delay for a business dinner.

Spotting an opportunity, Fallon approached the restaurant manager with a request. “I said, ‘I want to send him something funny. Can I send him, like, a half-eaten meatball or something?’” Fallon recalled on the show. “And she goes, ‘We don’t have that. I’m not doing that. We’re a Michelin Star restaurant. We’re not going to do that.’ I go, ‘What can I send that would be funny?’ And she goes, ‘Why don’t you have a pizza delivered from next door?’ So I made them not serve you food and then deliver you pizza.”

The pizza arrived at Domenicali’s table with a handwritten note on the box: “Stefano, delivery just in case. Jimmy Fallon.”

Far from being annoyed, the F1 chief held onto the note — and brought it with him to the studio. “I kept it because we were starving,” Domenicali explained. “So you save our dinner. It’s there. I’ve got a family. You are the hero of my daughter. So I wanted to bring it home to prove that you were with me.”

The lighthearted exchange underlines the growing cultural footprint of Formula 1 in the United States, where the sport has cultivated a new generation of fans and celebrity followers since the Miami Grand Prix was added to the calendar in 2022.