Category: Culture
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Help wanted: Mercedes is hiring a fashion manager for George Russell and Kimi Antonelli
Calling all F1 fans with impeccable sartorial taste. Mercedes is hiring a driver clothing executive to manage George Russell and Kimi Antonelli’s off-track attire. The new role, as Motorsport.com understands, was born out of necessity amid the team’s growing roster of brand partners and the number of ensembles worn by the drivers at appearances throughout each…
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Ladies first: The travel startup bringing together female F1 fans
“This isn’t Formula 1 Fyre Fest,” Alexandra Zigrang assures through a laugh.Just a year in, her Barcelona-based trackside travel company, Off to the Races, has been far from a failure. Unlike the infamous music festival that promised luxury thousand-dollar villas only to deliver emergency tents and cheese sandwiches instead. The company offers female travelers what…
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The story behind the “Goodbye Daniel Ricciardo” books of the U.S. Grand Prix
In the fan zone at the Circuit of the Americas, next to a jar of earplugs and a few feet from an industrial sized jug of free sunscreen, sat a 3-inch thick book with heavy blank white pages. Fans were shuffling from the midday heat into the tent where the book sat, writing notes in…