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/
The author [#KateWagner] criticized the general state of #FormulaOne, arguing that it has grown boring amid the dominance of Red Bull Racing star Max Verstappen. Wagner also mocked her hosts at #INEOS, describing its invitation to her as a bid to gain positive #publicity & #whitewash the company’s image. “The #petrochemical companies, deeply #powerful institutions, need #journalists to write about all the things they attach themselves to that are not being a petrochemical company,”she wrote. #F1