F1 in Texas: Well, now the championship is exciting again

The Circuit of the Americas was packed for the US Grand Prix.

Formula 1 held the third of its five North American rounds this past weekend at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Unlike the races in Montreal, Miami, and Las Vegas, the US Grand Prix is held on a proper road course, one purpose-built for the task of hosting F1 a little over a decade ago.

It’s a circuit Ars knows quite well—along with some friends, I was on the turn-19 banking for the first race in 2012, and we checked out Caterham’s setup the following year; toured the F1 tech center in 2015, where the race broadcasts are directed; then learned about tires there with Pirelli in 2021. And we’ve driven it in everything from an Audi TT-S to a Corvette ZR1 to a Mocabene Vent Noir. Not to mention all the Lone Star Le Mans races we’ve attended.

The crowds now exceed even the mass of humanity that showed up for that first race. And while Miami and Las Vegas have been pitched at the “more money than they know what to do with” people, ticket prices at COTA are more reasonable (for an F1 event). As long as you don’t mind brutal heat and humidity, it can be quite a good race to attend.

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Lime & Co.: Prag sagt Nein zu Miet-E-Scootern

Künftig dürfen im historischen Stadtkern von Prag keine Miet-Tretroller mehr verwendet werden. Damit reagiert die Stadt auf Beschwerden von Anwohnern. (E-Scooter, Parken)

Künftig dürfen im historischen Stadtkern von Prag keine Miet-Tretroller mehr verwendet werden. Damit reagiert die Stadt auf Beschwerden von Anwohnern. (E-Scooter, Parken)

Anti-vaccine activists want to go nationwide after Idaho law passes

The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine.

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Three women become choked up as they deliver news in a video posted to social media. “We did it, everybody,” says Leslie Manookian, the woman in the middle. She is a driving force in a campaign that has chipped away at the foundations of modern public health in Idaho. The group had just gotten lawmakers to pass what she called the first true “medical freedom” bill in the nation. “It’s literally landmark,” Manookian said. “It is changing everything.”

With Manookian in the video are two of her allies, the leaders of Health Freedom Idaho. It was April 4, hours after the governor signed the Idaho Medical Freedom Act into law.

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