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.

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    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    A socialist who’s painfully self-conscious about class differences, Wagner skewers expensive homes on her blog McMansion Hell and writes about architecture for the left-wing magazine the Nation.

    Still, Road & Track magazine commissioned Wagner to cover a Formula One race in Austin last fall, sending her on a trip funded by British petrochemicals company INEOS.

    In its absence, admirers have resorted to sharing an archived version that seems to have gone viral in media circles — many noting, as did New Yorker food writer Helen Rosner, that it had been “mysteriously removed.”

    Pund, who was appointed to the magazine’s top job in January after working as the executive editor, was not aware of the story before it was published, according to the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preserve confidences.

    The author criticized the general state of Formula One, arguing that it has grown boring amid the dominance of Red Bull Racing star Max Verstappen.

    Bradley Lord, a spokesman for the Mercedes-AMG Petronas team, told The Washington Post that it was unaware of the story and hadn’t complained to the magazine about it.

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