new banger social graphic just dropped

Loved the new Ferrari unveiling but I couldn’t stop thinking about this meme when LH was behind the wheel so I had to make it

Just saw a video of a man saying “it’s cringe to admit, but I listen to music before bed”. Have we lost the meaning of cringe? Why is everyone so embarrassed to do anything these days? I’m not even 25 and I am exhausted by ever-changing societal norms

Sharing this again post-Canada, because:

F1 in Canada but make it Mario Kart

too personal for the substack so it’s going here

Montreal, you have just reminded me why I love F1

When I was in the 7th grade, Kyle Busch came to my robotics class as a surprise. There were only 11 of us, and I was one of two girls — something he reassured me would never be a problem in my pursuit of being involved in motorsport.

I wrote about F1’s AI boom, environmental impact, data centers, critical thinking, and the cost of convenience. While there’s plenty more I could say on this (and probably will — this piece deserves a sequel), here’s a good starting point for now:

thanks to you!! im a long time Sainzist, hopelessness lurks oftenly nowadays. so to me this is a great reminder of what Sainz can do in troubled times.

maybe im not accustomed, maybe im focusing on the wrong stuff there but tremendous article by @itsfacetime.substack.com about how Sainz holds teams up to a standard. #Sainz #Formula1 #F1 #Motorsport #Sports #SportSky

Carlos Sainz finished P9 in Miami. Not exactly the stuff of highlight reels — which is exactly why I wanted to write about it. On the reality of the “Carlos Sainz effect”: steadiness, feedback, standards, and the art of making a team better before anyone notices:

Access is not the same as journalism. In F1 especially, where proximity is scarce and controlled, interviews should do more than prove someone got close to the room. They should help us understand what the room hides. It’s time for sports journalists to ask better questions:

Thinking about how much I love #NewYork 🍎🚕❤️‍🔥!!!

If you’re confused by the new 2026 regulation tweaks before Miami, you’re not alone. I wrote a Translator Desk on what actually changed, why the FIA moved this fast, and what to watch team-by-team Miami weekend:

Why does elite sport teach its athletes to worship a religion of motion? High performance athletes are praised when they keep moving, reset quickly, and make pressure look easy. In F1, that can start to look less like resilience and more like a belief system:

Doriane Pin, the woman you are!!!

Formula 1 sells proximity. Journalism pays the price. This week’s FaceTime is about paddock access, creator culture, blurred ethics, and the way F1 keeps marketing closeness as proof of worth — then acting scandalized when people start chasing it:

Nothing more humbling than catching the most idiotic typo on your most popular Substack article to date, weeks after it’s been published

journalism is the best thing ever, but also this is how cold pitching feels

No F1, IndyCar, Cup Series, WEC, or IMSA this weekend! Not even Moto GP?! What will you do??? WATCH RACE FOR A CAUSE 2026 LIVE ON RACESPOTTV! 24hrs of multiclass action around LeMans! Share this event or follow the link in bio to support Belong To LGBTQ Youth Ireland!

With Ollie Bearman’s nasty Suzuka crash, there’s a big question haunting 2026: what happens when a sport gets more future-proof on paper, but less convincing in the hands of the people driving it? I wrote about this, and why the real issue may be that F1 solved the wrong design brief:

Regardless of what Ferrari changes over the five week hiatus, we cannot deny that the wheel-to-wheel has been extremely entertaining. It’s nice to see them having fun again on the track!

On Kimi Antonelli, because back to back poles is certainly raising the already impossibly high bar:

No races for five weeks does not mean F1 has stopped. I wrote about what teams are really doing during the April gap, why this matters more in a new regs era, and how Mercedes, Ferrari, McLaren, Red Bull, Williams and others could come back looking very different:

Kimi Antonelli was supposed to be the future. Then, China happened. Once a teenager wins this early — for Mercedes, in Lewis Hamilton’s old seat, in a brand-new era — the language around him hardens. On what happens when a driver you were supposed to have time to watch develop arrives early:

spent this week writing a feature piece on Kimi Antonelli and how young he is against his accomplishments makes me feel ANCIENT despite us not even being that far in age

Today would have been the legendary Ayrton Senna's 66th birthday.

I highly recommend Substack for anyone who isn’t on there yet + whether you’re a journo or not. Truly such a life changing platform full of just great people with amazing things to say!! 🥹💌

I grew up in Las Vegas, which makes it impossible not to notice what happens when #F1 reduces a city into sleek television. So, I wrote about the world feed, how host cities become scenery, and why I think belonging is one of the quietest things Formula 1’s broadcast is constantly designing:

What a joy to lose sleep for this race; history was absolutely made — Kimi Antonelli, you are so loved 🥹

It’s officially 🏁 RACE DAY 🇨🇳 here in Shanghai!

A very surreal career moment today: Daniel Moxon featured my Lindblad piece in his newsletter Pit Lane Chronicles! Really grateful and very energized that careful, story-first #F1 writing is finding its people this early. When your work finds readers who care, it’s a very special feeling 🏁❤️‍🔥

The Australian GP had louder headlines, but one of its most interesting stories lived in a Racing Bulls car. I wrote about Arvid Lindblad, debuting at 18, holding off Max for a spell, and looking startlingly present tense in a sport that usually treats young drivers like trailers for the future:

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#F1 has me trying not to get too excited but FP is looking great for these guys!

If you’re starting the new Drive to Survive season this weekend, just know: you might come out the other side with a driver. 💌 I wrote about that — the moment one of twenty suddenly becomes yours — for the first edition of Race Week Cinema on my #F1 newsletter, FaceTime:

#F1 2026 is arriving with big promises and even bigger opinions (“anti-racing!”). I translated it for you, around a week out from the season starter. On what’s changed, why drivers are mad, and what you’ll actually see on your screen when the season starts:

On Toto Wolff’s Epstein “joke” in Bahrain, my freshman year Stanford dorm whiteboard ranking me “ugly” and “crazy”, and how what the room laughs at determines who feels safe staying there: #F1

🏎️🏁 2026 #F1 / #F1testing wrap: The cars look wildly different, and the story less about lap times and more about systems, procedures, and energy management under the new rules. 🧵 Let’s talk shop:

Russell being that blunt is honestly useful though, starts are one of the few places the driver can feel 10/10 vs 6/10 immediately and if the procedure’s longer + more variable, it’s going to expose any inconsistency fast. I can’t wait for homologation

Kym Illman casually “confirming” the Lando + Magui’s split like it was a tire temp update 💀 this sport is something else

It’s always nice to see who has the fastest lap during testing but the real meat of testing is anywhere there’s program disruption. If Red Bull is repeatedly losing chunks of running across sessions, that’s fewer data points on tyres, energy use, and long-run behavior. Which compounds fast

Toto is killing me; it didn’t ‘suddenly’ become a topic, it was one the moment competitors believed there was an interpretation gap between the static ambient test and operating conditions. With homologation looming, teams would be negligent not to raise it?? But that’s #F1, I suppose 🫠

If somebody told me back in 2011 that one day this country would reach the point of having three Twitter variants, each of a *deeply* varying level of morality, I fully would not believe them Also, Twitter being renamed X — that was just foul

Right…because Kendrick Lamar is definitely the satanic cultist at hand…not Elon or Donald…

During Kendrick's halftime show a man unfurled a Palestinian flag and was chased off stage and eventually tackled and removed by security.

A universe in motion seen from the International Space Station during a night pass over Earth (view fullscreen).