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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