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Fred Smith

@fredsmith.bsky.social
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Car and racing writer with too many hobbies and not nearly enough vintage Mercedes sedans

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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Making Olympia suffer through the worst lunch of all time in the name of recruiting allies
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
One thing I love about Petit Le Mans is how honest people get at the end of a season. Renger van der Zande did just that in this one, first explaining why he thought the Acura was stronger than the Cadillac, then expressing his frustration with how little time he got in it.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Okay Bluesky you see why it's worrying when you write it like that right
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We continue apace
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Somehow McLaren every time they come up with another slight revision to the MP4-12C tub and engine that makes it even more class-leading with what one would think is minimal R&D expense:
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm sorry but I refuse to believe that this is the main thing happening on this website today
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In addition to the murder and the job-having, Leda is sharing her skincare routine with her competitors. An enigma, an icon.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who among us hasn’t been struck with the despair of learning that they missed their shot to murder someone
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is going around Twitter again and I am again mad at the complete nonsense of it. Classic case of an “advanced stat” that just doesn’t adequately capture impact at all.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t know if that’s a good idea man
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Man stop showing me that please
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The last race winner to win the GP3/F3 title is George Russell. These series get blitzed through by great first-year champions sometimes, but most other success in F2/F3 doesn’t correlate anywhere that matters and some F1 stars never actually succeed in these series.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Found a new type of guy on Instagram
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Huh.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's my first day naming cars and I just came up with a new one, hope you guys like it
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Impressive to see one of these about a foundational event in a country's history
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Same vibe as Abu Dhabi doing this
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BMWs have a 0.5% chance here, which makes my E39 a 1-in-200 critical hit
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fernando Tatis Jr. is the best right fielder in baseball even though he's also the back-up second baseman now. And even though he spent the first three months of the season doing this at the plate.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Good things are happening in the Laguna Seca infield
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There are also two more companies involved in addition to the two initially known
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Opens off the top crediting Torre, by the way:
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Got in some light work. Please don’t put two and two together and noticed I finished this 100% after giving up on fixing my car tonight.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Which nonsense American brand name for limited-slip differential technology are you
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I think a lot about how Shakespeare interrupts one of the most famous speeches ever written with a guy saying “yeah man Antony is killing it” in the clunkiest way possible
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
is that good
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Just a couple comparable French basketball players
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
January poll, but Albertan independence was at a Trump-like 31-62 unfavorable and that number actually dropped much further when the idea of joining the U.S. was thrown on top of it.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
June Ipsos poll: Canada is polling at 55-10 favorable in the U.S. August Ipsos poll: Trump is polling 33-64 favorable in the U.S. A man almost twice as unpopular as he is popular is blowing up a relationship Americans generally value. This stuff just will not work at all.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nobody has cared about this in well over a year but this is a good time to remember that Google Maps still has this dumb shit
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Yeah that is what's going on here
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The M version at least gets a bit rounder and gets rid of the top supports, but it might even look worse
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Everyone is really burying the lede here
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
So the suite next to me collapsed a little bit
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Scott McLaughlin inexplicably has a tank top undershirt
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Was just in the National Gallery. Unfortunately the following works caught on fire upon contact with the air produced by the seven or so 25-year-old IROC cars that practiced.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Getting whole new types of ad on Instagram now
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Love that guy, only Pokémon who does vape tricks
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Which one of these two is the resume of rumored 2027 AJ Foyt Racing driver Josh Pierson and which one is Sting Ray Robb, notable mostly for how many times he has been a problem for the leader while being lapped this year?
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Which of these guys do we think is the rumored new AJ Foyt driver? And keep in mind that he's rumored to be replacing the good prospect, not the 28-year-old sitting 16th in the standings.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Not even one run in a 22-run game?
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Fun fact: If your laptop is the exact resolution mine is and you have a bookmarks bar, you can position the MLB GameDay screen just like this to block out the massive and detestable live Polymarket ads on either side of the page from here.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Long-time NASCAR fans will remember that we only had that type of ROTY winner for three straight years, to the point that Ricky Stenhouse Jr. felt like the first major prospect in the series in ages when he showed up.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We've had a solid string of rookie-of-the-year winners who are good now but sucked as rookies, the one exception being many-time winner van Gisbergen. Heim could've changed that, but this ruling might change it the other way and get us a Daniel Hemric Type ROTY.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It's a lot of stuff.
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Insane run
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
First ever good work from the curated trending tab on Bluesky
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Found it! He just calls them "horned asses" which is delightfully un-magical in a paragraph that mentions headless men. I think he means rhinoceroses. He also calls camels "asses, not the horned kind but others which go without water"
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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The sex purge movie is absolutely cooking the guy right now. Total approval is only *just* above the live action Moana line.
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