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)
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.)
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 […]
@beep Nobody pressured me, no no
[glances nervously offstage]
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