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.

Road & Track
@beep Nice piece, I would have thought that publications had stopped sending perfectly wrong writers to events after the Hunter S Thompson days.