Link to the web archive version of the offending article

Headline might be a bit clickbaity - I thought it was quite interesting from a pov of someone not from outside the circus.

…When we got into the garage, Lewis’s car was naked, its insides visible for all to see. I think this was the moment where my respect for the sport as it exists really made itself clear. It is hard to describe what I felt looking at that car. The closest phrase I have at my disposal is the technological sublime.

  • ReallyZenEnglish
    18·
    3 months ago

    From the Road and Track article:

    People clinked glasses of free champagne in outfits worth more than the market price of all the organs in my body. I stood there among them in a thrift-store blouse and shorts from Target.

    Thanks for sharing the R&T link, it is indeed an excellent article. If her mandate was to report her experience, she nailed it absolutely.

    (Talking about Lewis Hamilton):

    It’s reminiscent of the patronage system of precapitalist times, when rulers and nobles with endless riches paid musicians and composers to live in the palace with them.

    A great read indeed. I guess some advertiser got angry. Mercedes? Red Bull? We’ll never know.

    Support the archive.org project if you can!

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      If her mandate was to report her experience, she nailed it absolutely.

      Not only that, but she nails the personalities involved too, I think. From the aloof, regal aura of Hamilton (love or hate him) to the bland straightforwardness of Max, which only makes his dominance more boring somehow.

      Great observations and fantastic writing.