BRIAN MAKSE
Brian Makse has spent the better part of the last three decades making cars go fast around racing circuits—and teaching others how to do the same. When not sampling cigars or setting questionable speed records on the Autobahn, he can be found explaining to his YouTube subscribers why his latest automotive dynamics theories make perfect sense. His path from BMX racer to motorsports champion to cigar aficionado isn't what anyone would call normal—but then again, normal people don’t typically win dozens of wheel-to-wheel races and then have the audacity to write about it. When he was born, Brian’s mother drove a small-block Chevelle and his father a vintage Rolls-Royce, which explains both his need for speed and his taste for quality. He writes about cigars like he drives: occasionally brilliant, frequently wrong, and always entertaining.
EMILY ATKINS
STEVEN BOCHENEK
Emily is happiest behind the wheel, preferably of something quick. A journalist since the age of about 8, she's been writing about cars for 15 years, funding her passion for racing. Emily competes whenever she can and has racked up numerous road racing championship trophies in her beloved #17 1994 Eurospec M3. Her journalism career has spanned three continents and numerous subject areas including logistics, waste management and insurance claims, but the best parts have been writing about cars for (among others) The Globe and Mail , Toronto Star , Automotive News Canada , CAA , Fleet Management magazine and Canadian Automotive Fleet magazine, and of course, VICARIOUS ! Emily lives in eastern Ontario and when she's not at the wheel or writing, she spends her free time singing in her band or outdoors skiing, cycling, kayaking and taking photos of the natural world.
Steven Bochenek (b-KEN-ek) is a veteran marketing writer who went freelance in 2003 (aka got gloriously fired from a prominent international agency) then expanded his writing into automotive and travel features. He joined the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada in 2011 and has published hundreds of pieces in multiple publications including VICARIOUS magazine. His work has been lauded in many advertising/marketing and automotive journalism award shows. Steven has been a part-time professor of advertising and marketing at Torontonian Colleges since 2010. In his spare time, he likes to play the piano and sing. And travel.
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