I do my best to be kind and share the love among my fellow clerks, but there are only a few times that I have to ask what the hell someone was thinking. So today we’re going to go over some really questionable articles about Formula 1 that have been making the rounds on Twitter lately. If you are thinking of doing all of the writing, you may opt for a slightly different route than these people.
Lewis Hamilton’s freestyle
This is a slightly older article from 2012, but it keeps turning around to gently remind us that we’re not all that far from some incredibly racist ideas about Lewis Hamilton. In this article, Autosport Editor Mark Hughes envisions what it would be like if Hamilton “talked the way he tweeted,” where he forges a ridiculous freestyle rap-like dialogue between Hamilton and his race engineer.
The article is supposed to be funny, as I can imagine, and probably also a little derogatory to Hamilton’s use of black slang on social media. Personally, I think Hughes made Hamilton sound like an ass inadvertently, in the sense that this driver is adding rhymes right here while driving an F1 car with ease. But you definitely can’t ignore the fact that Hughes enjoys Hamilton because he’s essentially black. Never a good phone call.
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But did you see the women?
Part of me wishes this BusinessF1 story was a joke because then it could be kind of funny. But I don’t think so. I think this is a legitimate story that is meant to serve a legitimate purpose. I just can’t imagine what that purpose is.
It opens with an intro stating that F1’s Netflix documentaries Drive to Survive did not feature women. The solution? Just show all the beautiful women and girlfriends in the paddock and of course talk about the drivers’ sex life!
This route extends over 16 full pages. During this time Sergio Perez is known as a “swordsman”. He analyzes teenage friends, points out that several drivers are actually gay, and assumes that Finnish drivers Kimi Räikkönen and Valtteri Bottas are divorced because they have a drinking crowd.
But don’t be offended, Snowflakes: This story contains a health warning that reads, “The editor apologizes in advance for this article, which some readers may not reconcile with their view of the 21st century.” Thanks for clearing up.
Actually, it’s good when Nikita Mazepin attacks a woman
This isn’t the only gem that BusinessF1 recently released. Earlier in the year, the publication made an effort to exonerate Nikita Mazepin for his mistakes, which mainly lead to an overreaction by canceling the culture for a bit of harmless fun.
Basically, it is believed that Haas F1 overreacted to a video in which Mazepin allegedly assaulted a woman in the back of the car by calling the action “hideous” but doing nothing else. The pull-out quote is one of the gems of this article as it goes, “It was fun, harmless fun, nothing more, nothing less, and the girl didn’t think of posting it on Nikita’s social media sites.” The structure of the sentence somehow implies the woman in the situation, which actually had nothing to do with whether or not Mazepin posted the video.
The author also notes that Günther Steiner’s answer should be literally: “Boys will be boys.”
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