when the cars go vroom

At the very least, it means asking permission before embedding fan art or linking directly to fan fiction in coverage. It means thinking twice before asking actors or artists to react to ships or explicit fan creations. It means considering whether a fan reasonably expected their work to stay within the community it was made for. Most importantly, it means treating fandom spaces like real places inhabited by real people, many of whom seek out these spaces precisely because they offer a sense of belonging they may not find elsewhere.

Fandom does not need to remain in the margins to deserve respect. But if journalists are going to cover this subject, and we should, we have to be willing to approach these spaces with the same care, ethics, and nuance we would bring to any other community. Because behind every fic or piece of fan art is someone saying, 'This mattered to me.' Did it matter to you too?"

Ferrari has spent months testing this wing, and did run into many issues with it during practices which is why they kept delaying bringing it. The version we have of this wing now is a result of a lot of trial and error. It's clearly possible to build this style of wing for performance and safety.

Red Bull on the other hand copied Ferrari and fell short. There were concerns that their version of this wing was better than Ferrari's at first. But it seems that any differences they tried to innovate sacrificed stability and or accuracy.

Banning the Macarena wing on safety concerns because one team had two accidents with it feels scandalous. Considering the kind of people that work on these cars, they should be able to understand if a device is beyond their factory's capabilites - nobody in the midfield even thought about that, even though it would probably help. Mercedes doesn't need it. McLaren, who woke up yesterday with their own project, saw that they weren't ready and benched it. If it's a wing problem, Red Bull should do as Ferrari did after FP1 in China - take it off the car, put the old style wing on, and take it back to the factory until they are 100% sure nothing is going to happen again

(Also let's be real, the FIA let Aston Martin drive around the track even while the vibrations were so bad Fernando couldn't feel his fingers anymore. They don't have much of a leg to stand on)

Now I'm not an expert, but the context of the accidents makes me think it's not (just) a wing problem. They both happened immediately after Red Bull brought their massive chassis upgrade - they almost rebuilt the car from scratch - and in two instances where Max was pushing like crazy (second Q3 run in Austria, 7 seconds behind P2 on softer tyres with 10 laps to go at Silverstone). And they happened only to Max, who we know likes to go extreme with the setup if the car is objectively inferior to the ones around him

day 205 of drawing charles leclerc until we win another race