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Elizabeth Blackstock
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Senior editor at Jalopnik. Co-author of "Racing With Rich Energy." Producer of the Deadly Passions, Terrible Joys podcast and Grand Prix Gastronomy.

There’s nothing more entertaining in journalism than watching car people learn what ‘fast’ actually feels like. Read more

Most excellent. As a rider for approaching 50 years, you’ve identified the thing about motorcycling that has kept me involved: you absolutely have to be completely focused in the task at hand. Read more

Invest your hard-earned dollars in Moneytron, he said, and you’ll become infinitely wealthy.”

“The good news is that there will be one capitalist less in the world, the bad news is that he is me.” Read more

Thank you for posting before 5PM on Friday!!!! Read more

Gotta give credit to the comment section: you folks discovered two errors I’ve now corrected: Read more

Goddamn, I haven’t watched SLC Punk in like 15 years. Gonna watch it tonight probably  Read more

Great minds, Elizabeth, great fucking minds

Despite all the things we memed him for (at times rightfully so) back when he was at F1, Marcus is still pretty good as a driver. And having seem him perform at IndyCar, I say he’s got a good long while to go and rack up more successes. Then again, winning the 500 is an accolade on its own — he’’s enshrined in the hist Read more

They should have been happy it didn’t rain. Reading your other track experiences, it seems you cause a 80% sodden downpour rate. Read more

This was one of the best articles I’ve read in a long time. Thank you for writing and publishing it.
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This was wonderful. Start to finish.  Read more

Can confirm Montreal. Me and Mrs. BirdLaw attended in 2015. People, price, venue, weather, are all top notch and welcoming as can be. The rumors are true, Canadians rock.  Plus, do you think at Miami one could get this close to a post-race Hami?

Yeah, this is the kind of take I still come to Jalop for. I don’t know of another car site that would be willing to publish something like this, thank you.
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Forget the dirt bike, You have got a Rotivator!!!!!!!!
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We all want you to mock the marina mercilessly. That’s a given. Read more

As someone who would really like to go to a grand prix in the future, that cost breakdown would be really great!  I’m not married to going to the Miami grand prix, but I’m not against it either. Read more