Story goon at large. Formerly @roadandtrack, @hagerty, @Esquire, @Jalopnik, TV for @NBCSports. Can't sit still.
Joined March 2010
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15 Feb 2021
That’s an unfortunate chair design
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10 May 2024
Honesty is the best policy, right?
(Even—perhaps especially—if it makes you appear to have the value system of a lobotomy patient.)
7 May 2024
"Caterhams are sports cars, small and bare-bones, purpose-built in England for speed and feedback. You don’t buy one unless you’re a glutton for punishment. Which is fitting, really, because you don’t decide to be a writer for a living unless, well, same."
Dammit, Sam...
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10 May 2024
There's an excerpt from my book on @TheAutopian!
Also, @TheAutopian is great and you should consider supporting it!
(Also hi, Matt!)
7 May 2024
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10 May 2024
Thanks, Adrian!
WE HERE AT SMITHCO INDUSTRIES PRIDE OURSELVES ON VALUE.
OH! I have a book out!
- A cross-section of my writing about cars, from R&T, Hagerty, and Roundel, w/photos
- Self-published, so you're supporting the work directly. Check it out, if you get a sec!
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4 Sep 2023
Exactly!
Life is nuance in the moment. People have been pretending the past was flawless for centuries. I adore history, but the Greek root of "nostalgia" just means "return-home pain."
Nice, in small doses. So long as you still look for the good you have, keep moving forward.
3 Sep 2023
So have many great champions. Eras decried as boring at the time and yet we look back upon as moments of rare perfection in our sport. Life is about appreciation of what we have in the now. Too often we only recognise the majesty of the moment in retrospect.
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4 Sep 2023
And another thing, he said, yelling at cloud:
Your past wasn't better. A lot of people thought Senna was the worst thing to happen to F1 in years. Enzo Ferrari was a tortured genius, but he was also a callous prick. Shakespeare was seen as a cheap populist.
It's always nuance.
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4 Sep 2023
(Not that Senna, and Ferrari, and Billy Shakes weren't great. Just that ***so little of our good is ever simple.***)
(Anyone who says it all is? Nod and smile and change the subject and be glad you like to read books and they don't.)
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31 Aug 2023
It really is great that we see so many pictures of drivers putting earpieces into their ears while staring into the distance like George Patton. I always wondered what it looked like when they did that.
31 Aug 2023
DRIVER NEWS: @L_Lundqvist76 signs a multi-year agreement to drive for Chip Ganassi Racing full-time beginning in 2024.
#INDYCAR // @CGRTeams
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31 Aug 2023
I ask you to bend an ear—or an eye, rather—toward one final thought.
And that thought is...
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31 Aug 2023
COLTON HEAR-TA
GET IT
COL
TON
HEAR
TAH
I really should not have had so much coffee this morning
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