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Originally Posted by Neilk
As far as the kid, great move by F1. Liberty Media realizes that the fans are what make the sport possible, whereas Bernie spent too many years believing that the it was a privilege for the fans to attend or watch a race, and if they didn't like what was happening, bugger off! Hopefully that won't lead to mystery cautions like Nascar to artificially bunch up the field.
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Ferrari are no strangers to this, a little less known story, I follow this kid on Instagram, his name is Sam. How I found Sam was when he got to meet his hero 2 years ago, Sebastian Vettel. Sam has Vanishing White Matter disease, cannot walk and is terminal. He is a huge F1 fan (I am sure parent influence) and Vettel fan. Ferrari and Vettel arranged for the boy to have full pit access during the Austin race 2 years ago. Crazy how this had almost no coverage and the Kimi thing was all over the place. Here is a pic of Seb meeting Sam, picking the lad up and putting him in his car.
I hope we see more of this kind of stuff in F1, it seems it has been going on all along, for whatever reason (Bernie I am looking at you) we barely saw it.