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.
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.
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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.
Wow that was a good read
Edit: the archive bike article, not the bezos one
