Sam Smith

Story goon at large. Formerly @roadandtrack, @hagerty, @Esquire, @Jalopnik, TV for @NBCSports. Can't sit still.

[Sam Smith @ThatSamSmith]

Pinned? Pinned.

[Jenson Button @JensonButton]

@harrismonkey @ThatSamSmith That’s an unfortunate chair design

[Sam Smith @ThatSamSmith]

@MckayMorte33016 @TheAutopian Paperback, since you asked. But either one is fantastic—just happy to have the book out there!

[Sam Smith @ThatSamSmith]

There's an excerpt from my book on @TheAutopian!

Also, @TheAutopian is great and you should consider supporting it!

(Also hi, Matt!)

[MattHardigree @MattHardigree]

I finally got @ThatSamSmith on @the_autopian https://t.co/HTmnI3BDEj (buy his book)

[Sam Smith @ThatSamSmith]

Honesty is the best policy, right?

(Even—perhaps especially—if it makes you appear to have the value system of a lobotomy patient.)

[Bradley Brownell @PluginHyBrad]

@MattHardigree @ThatSamSmith @the_autopian "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...

[Sam Smith @ThatSamSmith]

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!

[Adrian Clarke @adrianfclarke]

On weight alone it's probably worth the money.

[Sam Smith @ThatSamSmith]

@BoziTatarevic @pkligerman It's easy, it's practical, it's versatile, it packs light and small, it's timeless, it works for shoots stretching across multiple days but meant to depict one day...

Good ones aren't expensive...

(Also: It hides when I spill food on myself.)

[Sam Smith @ThatSamSmith]

(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.)

[Sam Smith @ThatSamSmith]

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.

[Will Buxton @wbuxtonofficial]

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.

[Sam Smith @ThatSamSmith]

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.

[Sam Smith @ThatSamSmith]

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I really should not have had so much coffee this morning

[Sam Smith @ThatSamSmith]

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.

[NTT INDYCAR SERIES @IndyCar]

DRIVER NEWS: @L_Lundqvist76 signs a multi-year agreement to drive for Chip Ganassi Racing full-time beginning in 2024.

#INDYCAR // @CGRTeams

[Sam Smith @ThatSamSmith]

I ask you to bend an ear—or an eye, rather—toward one final thought.

And that thought is...