Aaron TeesMar 5, 2024
Ethan Marcotte

This is one of the finest things I’ve read in a minute, about the class, capital, and, yes, cars that power F1, written by the extraordinary Kate Wagner: https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a46975496/behind-f1-velvet-curtain/

(via @maxfenton)

Behind F1's Velvet Curtain

If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.

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Mar 4, 2024 at 3:46pmWeb
Show threadEthan MarcotteMar 4, 2024

Everything Wagner writes about the money and power are very good, but when she gets to the sport itself, I think the essay becomes something downright exquisite.

(I don’t know why the piece was pulled from the magazine just days after it was published, but I can absolutely guess.)

Show threadEthan MarcotteMar 6, 2024
bloop https://defector.com/road-track-eic-tries-to-explain-why-he-deleted-an-article-about-formula-1-power-dynamics
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 threadMark LlobreraMar 6, 2024

@beep Nobody pressured me, no no

[glances nervously offstage]

Show threadEthan MarcotteMar 6, 2024
@markllobrera pay no attention to the massive petrochemical conglomerates behind the curtain
Show threadelle mundyMar 4, 2024

@beep it’s so fricken weird* that they would delete this so soon after publishing, and after all the work that went into it

* it’s not actually that weird. it’s expected

Show threadEthan MarcotteMar 4, 2024
@exchgr i don’t know who assigned kate actual wagner to cover f1, but i wish they’d gotten a RAISE (and fought for the piece, rather than pulling it)
Show threadelle mundyMar 4, 2024
@beep somehow i didn’t even notice that! deleting kate wagner’s work is a crime against humanity
Show threadEthan MarcotteMar 4, 2024
@exchgr I didn’t notice it was her until a friend pointed it out! And YUP what you said!!
Show threadDanMar 4, 2024
@beep @maxfenton I love Kate’s writing on cycling! Thanks for linking to this piece which I’d have otherwise missed.
Show threadEthan MarcotteMar 4, 2024
@danielm You’re so welcome. And I had no idea she covered cycling until I read this piece! I’m absolutely going to be tracking down some of her bylines.
Show threadDanMar 4, 2024
@beep My chance to return the favour: a profile on Primož Roglič https://escapecollective.com/primoz-roglic-and-the-closed-circle-of-longing/
Primož Roglič and the closed circle of longing - Escape Collective

There is no more La Planche des Belles Filles. Roglič has moved on from the caricature of trauma that's been drawn since that day. He's free.

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Show threadEthan MarcotteMar 4, 2024
@danielm oh my goodness — i just glanced at the first few paragraphs, but i can already tell i’m going to love this. thank you, dan.
Show threadCharles ☭ is now tooting from queer.partyMar 4, 2024

@beep @danielm

Is this the same Kate Wagner that does McMansion Hell? I suspect its not, but there is a similarity in perspective.

Show threadEthan MarcotteMar 4, 2024
@celesteh I believe it is!
Show threadMax Fenton (defunct)Mar 5, 2024
@celesteh @beep ohhhhhhhhh I had not made that connection
Show threadDuncan LockMar 5, 2024
@beep
That was good, thanks!
@maxfenton
Show threadRouseWorldMar 5, 2024
@beep Nice piece, I would have thought that publications had stopped sending perfectly wrong writers to events after the Hunter S Thompson days.