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Behind F1's Velvet Curtain

by roldie on 3/5/24, 4:38 AM with 6 comments

  • by swarnie on 3/5/24, 7:08 AM

    If your interested maybe bookmark this one for the weekend since i'm thirteen paragraphs in and Kate hasn't meandered remotely close to the point of the article yet.
  • by leotravis10 on 3/5/24, 9:54 PM

    Here's a archive.is mirror in case Hearst (Road & Track's parent) demand archive.org to kill it: https://archive.is/u3csL
  • by marklubi on 3/5/24, 7:01 AM

    This has got to be one of the most biased, uninformed, bullshit, articles I've ever read. The author has no connections to motorsports at all, where everything and everyone is connected.

    I've had Indy hard cards, lunch with Charlie Whiting, been in race control and timing towers of too many race tracks to count, and had people ask to take pictures with me because of what I created (still feels weird, but whatever).

    This is a fluff piece of nonsensical ranting and raving about a sport that the author knows nothing about. It is a very expensive sport and also attracts a lot of money because everyone wants to find any possible advantage they can within the rules. I started my business to help fund my racing habit, and found that we can make more money selling useful tools to the racers and fans.

    Someone told the author to go on a trip and write an article that's X,000 words long... sadly, that person didn't care if the article was actually good or not.