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Someone doesn't want you to read this article.

The Wayback Machine got a snapshot of it and as of this posting you can still read it live on MSN.

Interestingly, Wagner's author page on Road & Track is still up, and included a link to the article when I started writing this, but said link is now gone. I couldn't find a social media account for Wagner with recent posts (other than twitter, which is now so hostile to guest viewers that I don't even bother with more than a cursory glance, since you're served a vomit of random posts spanning the last seven years instead of, you know, today).

Really curious what the story is here, but the most likely explanations seem pretty apparent based on the article's content. Scathing commentary on wealth inequality, combined with close and candid photos of people who, as Kate mentions early in the work, have 'bought their way out of public life' and would most likely prefer to stay that way. It may have made it past the editor's desk, but someone with some pull didn't want the article to remain published in its original form.

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if you read nothing else about Formula 1, read this article

truly this encapsulates everything F1 is minus the racing itself. which, in the ways that matter, is all there is

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after some digging on multiple Twitter accounts i can see the remains of some deleted tweets on her own account which people had commented on

the original tweet about the article was here https://twitter.com/mcmansionhell/status/1763598895475458266

with replies like

Davy Pottel @drpottel
Fantastic work.

I’d love to hear you report on the experience of going to F1 as someone like me in the cheap seats.

lawrence dunn @l_dunn1
"The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever. People clinked glasses of free champagne in outfits worth more than the market price of all the organs in my body." 🤌

Louis Capizzi @louis_capizzi
Lol, this is ridiculously good. There’s probably not a better pure writer in sports journalism than Kate. So cool they basically let her do the modern evolution of H.S. Thompson at the Derby

Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites
this is a stupidly good read

based on Google search results, Road & Track's deputy editor, Raphael Orlove, posted about it too but it has since been deleted from his feed as well, and of course Google no longer provides cached pages because they hate us all

there is a Reddit thread linking the original article with guys pissing and moaning about it because they do not understand the narrative style (and incidentally would have missed the point of Thompson too) but one commenter asks:

friendinfremont
anyone know why this article was nuked from the R&T site?

that is all i have been able to find

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doctorwednesday
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Today I have learned that articles on MSN are completely unreadable, with all the animations and ads and random flashy things encrusting the margin and indeed breaking up the text. I can only assume MSN is meant for the illiterate, or the aspiring illiterate...

(I read it on the archive site instead)

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v-raze
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Oh, yeah, definitely. I use microblock and kinda forget sometimes how much more obnoxious sites like that are without it. Wanted to share it anyways though, since it was the first place I found the article still listed and archive.org is a bit slow at times

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It blows my fucking mind that the best article explaining the world surrounding F1 (not the world of F1 that is ostensibly about racing) comes from a cyclism journalist who can't even drive. A damn GOOD one, at that. Kate Wagner, I salute thee.

This is the best and the most important thing I read about F1. It gave me a "Knowing how the sausage is made" moment. I already hated F1's management, but it makes me sick. It makes me wish the peak of motorsport wasn't like this. Just another facet of the capitalist crystal, seemingly only existing to reflect itself.

And it makes me feel vindicated that I like Lewis Hamilton as a person, as the being that he is, and that he manages to exist in this world.

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