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It’s just such a terrible name… I’m tired of all the team names just being a string of corporations

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I mean, it has been this way since the 1980s… but nowadays it’s often “Company 1 Company 2 Company 3” instead of “Sponsor Team”. And stupid sponsorship names that are very long dont help either

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Yeah like Ferrari or Mercedes or Red Bull or McLaren or…

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Well, at least three of those are actually car manufacturing companies that used their competition teams to both promote their vehicles and showcase new R&D achievements. Even RedBull has a reputation and history of marketing towards high intensity thrill seeking and adrenaline junkies, which makes sense in a high risk high stakes sport. There’s a qualitative difference between Ferrari and VisaCashappWalmart or whatever it is they’re doing now.

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Oh boy, don’t start watching any cycling

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But the brand names is cycling is super cool imo.Id love to see a F1 team named as Jumbo Visma

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Not sure if you’re aware, but Jumbo is literally a grocery store in the Netherlands

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The worst part is Raging Bull, though.

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It’s going to be racing bulls tho right?

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Oh, was it? I must’ve been mistaken.

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Any other sources? I desperately want this to be one person’s hoax!

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So far I have only seen this one person’s screenshot

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Search for “visacashapprb” on your favorite search engine (I just tested Google and Duckduckgo), and they will show a result with a link to the new insta-handle

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Alas! Also whenever I see that all-lowercase name my brain reads “visa cash grab”. I’m sure there’s a joke in there somewhere.

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Ok new rule: No advertisers from outside automobile industry.

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You mean like Red Bull?

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Red Bull is developing their own engine at least

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