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About Race Ctrl
An outlet for thoughts on motorsport, by someone who's passionate about motorsport. Wondering how this all got started? Read below...
Race Ctrl
What is this site? Well, it's sort of a mish-mash of things. There's not any journalists on the payroll, so realistically it's not a site for breaking news. Think of it more as a place for commentary and ~healthy~ debate, with reactions, ratings, and recaps of things that maybe you already have heard of but have not fully considered. Is every single news story covered by major media outlets going to be covered? No. But a few times per week, there will be some musings to satisfy your taste for that juicy content.
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Alex Herman
I've been following motorsport since I saw my first NASCAR race in 2005, which was the spring race at Auto Club Speedway in California. Greg Biffle won that race, and from then on he was my favorite driver. Ironically he never got closer to the title than 2005, when he finished second. My passion for motorsport, however would last much longer. As the competitiveness of my favorite driver and team diminished throughout the years, I began peeking around managed to catch a few F1 races in 2012 and 2013.
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The first F1 session I watched start to finish was qualifying for the 2013 Canadian GP, where Ironically Valtteri Bottas, in the wet, put the awful 2013 Williams FW35 in third. There was so much buzz, I thought "this guy must be the best driver ever." And so Bottas and Williams became my primary F1 interest. We know now that that qualifying session was a tiny bit misleading.
Eventually my passion for the sport included a technical interest, and that's when I became really involved. From 2014 onwards I have watched damn near every session of F1 and I was hooked. I was an American that liked F1 'before it was cool' in the days before Netflix and Drive to Survive. With so many thoughts about the sport, from technical interests to opinions on controversies, and everything else, I thought, "maybe other people might want to hear what I have to say." If not, at least I can look back and laugh at some of the predictions and opinions that will inevitably be so very wrong.
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