Show threadRí Rua nan Earraich 🐦‍⬛Mar 6, 2024

Amazingly Road and Track pulled the article because the editor didn't like it and would have never allowed it in the first place.

Such a bad editorial choice, I think the author in defector.com is correct; decision is less about F1 or its sponsors. It is, ironically, about the editors connection to the power dynamics that Kate Wagner wrote so eloquently about.

https://defector.com/road-track-eic-tries-to-explain-why-he-deleted-an-article-about-formula-1-power-dynamics

#F1 #RoadAndTrack #formula1

Road & Track EIC Tries To Explain Why He Deleted An Article About Formula 1 Power Dynamics | Defector

This past Friday, right before the start of the 2024 Formula 1 season, Road & Track published a first-person dispatch from architecture critic and sportswriter Kate Wagner, who attended the United States Grand Prix in Austin last October. As Wagner wrote in the piece, Road & Track “forwarded me the opportunity on behalf of” the […]

Show threadNonilexMar 5, 2024

It’s almost unheard of for a news outlet to retract an article w/o explanation, especially a story of this size whose accuracy has not been publicly challenged. Neither #KateWagner nor #RoadAndTrack responded to requests for comment.

A person familiar w/editorial deliberations at Road & Track said the story, which had been in the works for months, was pulled after its #publication at the order of Editor in Chief #DanielPund on the grounds that it didn’t fit w/the site’s editorial goals.

#F1

Show threadNonilexMar 5, 2024
“People clinked glasses of free champagne in outfits worth more than the market price of all the organs in my body,” she #KateWagner.

Anyone who wants to read it, though, won’t be reading it on #RoadAndTrack’s website. Roughly an hour after it was published, “Behind #F1’s Velvet Curtain” vanished w/o an explanation.

In its absence, admirers have resorted to sharing an archived version that seems to have gone viral in #media circles — many noting… that it had been “mysteriously removed.”
NonilexMar 5, 2024

A #socialist writer skewered the #FormulaOne scene. Then her article vanished.

Writer #KateWagner may have seemed like an odd choice to cover the luxury world of FormulaOne.
…FormulaOne races…have become pit stops on the jet-set circuit, where the cheapest general-admission tickets start around $500. Still, #RoadAndTrack mag commissioned Wagner to cover a FormulaOne race in Austin last fall, sending her on a trip funded by British petrochemicals co INEOS.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/03/05/formula-one-road-track-kate-wagner/

A socialist writer skewered the Formula One scene. Then her article vanished.

Editors for Road & Track aren’t saying why they yanked Kate Wagner’s Formula One article from the website shortly after it published.

The Washington Post
Donald Ham Dec 29, 2023

"PS" was the final page of every issue of #RoadAndTrack magazine. A #ClassicCars discussion of Lucas electrics reminded me of my favorite: "Why do the English drink warm beer? Because they have Lucas refrigerators." I owned a 1973 #TriumphSpitfire and knew the sweet pain of Lucas electrics firsthand.

I found a compilation, "Best of PS," published in England in 1998 and just got my copy.

(brooklands-books.com)