#roadandtrack — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #roadandtrack, aggregated by home.social.
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It’s almost unheard of for a news outlet to retract an article w/o explanation, especially a story of this size whose accuracy has not been publicly challenged. Neither #KateWagner nor #RoadAndTrack responded to requests for comment.
A person familiar w/editorial deliberations at Road & Track said the story, which had been in the works for months, was pulled after its #publication at the order of Editor in Chief #DanielPund on the grounds that it didn’t fit w/the site’s editorial goals. -
“People clinked glasses of free champagne in outfits worth more than the market price of all the organs in my body,” she #KateWagner.
Anyone who wants to read it, though, won’t be reading it on #RoadAndTrack’s website. Roughly an hour after it was published, “Behind #F1’s Velvet Curtain” vanished w/o an explanation.
In its absence, admirers have resorted to sharing an archived version that seems to have gone viral in #media circles — many noting… that it had been “mysteriously removed.” -
A #socialist writer skewered the #FormulaOne scene. Then her article vanished.
Writer #KateWagner may have seemed like an odd choice to cover the luxury world of FormulaOne. …FormulaOne races…have become pit stops on the jet-set circuit, where the cheapest general-admission tickets start around $500. Still, #RoadAndTrack mag commissioned Wagner to cover a FormulaOne race in Austin last fall, sending her on a trip funded by British petrochemicals co INEOS.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/03/05/formula-one-road-track-kate-wagner/ -
"PS" was the final page of every issue of #RoadAndTrack magazine. A #ClassicCars discussion of Lucas electrics reminded me of my favorite: "Why do the English drink warm beer? Because they have Lucas refrigerators." I owned a 1973 #TriumphSpitfire and knew the sweet pain of Lucas electrics firsthand.
I found a compilation, "Best of PS," published in England in 1998 and just got my copy.
(brooklands-books.com)
