Peter Vieira
Wow, you're reading this? Thanks! If you're into RC cars and I seem vaguely familiar, it's because I spent over 25 years writing and editing RC car news, reviews, and tech articles in print and online. What else, what else ... I have a degree in Film Studies (useless), most of a degree in Graphic Design (useful), and I'm married to a wonderful woman with horrible taste in men. Thanks to her, we have a terrific daughter who just earned her Journalism degree and is way, waaay more together that I was at her age. Or right now.
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I definitely clicked on it for the ice racing part. I would in no way click on anything nascar or f1 though, so you got me there with the “normally, racing stories are black holes” thing.
I will click on anything Nürburgring-related, though, especially N24-based.
I love the nascar articles that were technical deep dives, but otherwise, I’d much rather read about hobbyist or grassroots racing series than any of the pro series.
“I Went Ice Racing in an Untested 200,000-mile Luxo Barge and Didn’t Crash Through the Ice”
Drama, suspense, shitboxes, intrigue!
Ice Racing in an A8 is exactly the type of thing I would click on… c’mon Mercedes!
Seeing all those unanswered pings to David and it feeling like content has been slowing down a lot lately I am wondering if there needs to be some delegation for these final approvals. I need more Autopian in my veins!
I know we aren’t political here, but do you all not watch the news? Or were you trying to be ironic? There are so many “Fuck ICE” protest signs out there. Headline seemed tone-deaf to me, but I also didn’t see anyone complaining.
Cannot tell if serious or being very subtlety tongue in cheek..
But I think no one else said anything because no one else connected the ice racing story on a car blog with ice goons terrorizing streets, because the only similarity is the word ice and the acronym
Maybe I’ve been reading too much huffpost, but I swear the “I love ICE” and “Cool as ICE” was at the same time orage jesus was telling the national weather service to avoid using the word Ice in their forecasts. I guess it’s not a prevalent story among readers here.
FWIW(pretty much nothing), I liked the “B” headline so much better from the jump. DT’s version just felt overly massaged.
I like the wacky racing stories. I don’t want theautopian to turn into a race results site, but I enjoy the stories about ice racing or going to the 24 hours of lemans. I read and enjoyed Mercedes article about taking a motor home onto a track.
As someone who just went ice racing this past weekend, that was part of the appeal that got me to click on it, but I definitely agree with the grassroots vs professional racing divide. I’ll read plenty of gambler or lemons stories, but really don’t care about F1 or NASCAR outside of the technical stuff (and even then…)