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So McLaren just confirmed publicly that their drivers are "still allowed to race each other." Still. Allowed. To race. Let me translate that for everyone who doesn't speak corporate hedging: that's the exact phrase a team uses when they're…

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Illustration for “Why Sim Racing Hardware Spending Climbs as F1 Cuts Costs”

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F1 slashed budgets and started firing engineers while sim racing hardware spending climbs—because the barrier to real motorsport just got higher and the value proposition of a…

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Illustration for “Oliver Bearman, Haas, and the Philosophy of the Ceiling”

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Illustration for “What Mekies Changed at Red Bull: Managing Chaos vs. Causing It”

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Laurent Mekies restructured Red Bull's feedback loop, killed the blame culture, and starved the circus—concrete calls that separate a team principal who manages chaos from one who…

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