HELLO BELOVED SYNTHY!!!! I would like to be assigned a team member please 💖
HI SEANAGH RACINGLINERS!! i assign you one of my husbandos, Bradley Lord, Chief Communications Officer and Team Representative of Mercedes!
BRADLEY!!!!!! What a guy! He began as a translator for Benetton in the early 2000s before moving to be a press officer for the team (I don't have the link so I'll put this in brackets but I think he was studying under their communications officer Patrizia Spinelli [you can see an image of them here with all the press/communications officers, and i saw her in an early benetton doc series]). He then left the team at the beginning of 2008 to be a journalist (he was a Features Editor for F1 Racing for a little bit [another low quality picture for your amusement]) before going back to Renault for 2010 and moving to Mercedes in 2011. Trying to sum it up with my small knowledge of his job but he's the guy that manages all the people who "control" the image of the team. I was skimming a podcast and he kind of said he's had the same job for a while which makes sense considering he's always been involved in media/PR adjacent things like that for his entire time in motorsports.
Segue. Did you know Bradley got his double first at Oxford (wikipedia says was in English and French)? Very smart guy! Another fun thing about Bradley is that he was running a blog during his stint at Renault. You can see it here (though I haven't checked if any of the blogposts are actually alive). Though it doesn't actually explicitly say it was Bradley, the blog is written in both English/French (I mean it IS a french team but it still checks out!) and in the above article it mentions that he runs it, so I assume it's written by him under an alias.
I chose Bradley for you because of the many parallels. Journalism obviously. But I think you're insanely creative and very well spoken. You know...as our resident Livery Watch reporter, seeing your wonderful voice in your writing always brings me joy. Not just in Livery Watch but also your fics of course. Very nice and smily people. Passionate about motorsports. (AND I LOVE YOU BOTH VERY MUCH.)