https://michaelmorrison.com/tags/sport/Recent content in Sport on Michael MorrisonHugoen-usFri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0700https://michaelmorrison.com/essays/the-unwatchable-race/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0700https://michaelmorrison.com/essays/the-unwatchable-race/<p>I had no use for motor racing. Loud, repetitive, a parade of billboards doing two hundred. Then a friend recommended <em>Drive to Survive</em> and I lost a weekend, and what hooked me had almost nothing to do with cars. It was the people. Who they were, who they couldn&rsquo;t stand, which garages were quietly at war, the engineering trickery, how a tenth of a second in Bahrain rearranged a friendship by August. In the early seasons, Guenther Steiner dropped lovable f-bombs left and right, and made you dread that post-race call to Gene Haas, the owner, along with him. The speed was the occasion. The story was the reason.</p>