We're lucky as Drag Racers to have an opportunity to touch people's lives and in a lot of cases, change people's lives.
I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive.
Historically, there has been a gap between single-purpose racecars and street-legal models - commonly called supercars - that emulate the real racers on the road.
I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.
Except for a very few elite pro racers up front, the Dakar Rally is not, at heart, a contest among the competitors; the battle, instead, is between mankind - more precisely, Western mankind, with all its fire-breathing machinery and inexorable arrogance - and Africa, which has been proving itself untamable for centuries now.
We put fate in other people's hands there at Talladega. You have 42 other racers and sometimes it doesn't work out for you.
I was a driver and a racer. The difference between drivers, who can be great World Champions, and racers, who are also World Champions, is that racers don't wait for things to happen: they make things happen.
All around me, I see girls forced to become rat racers in the College Application Industrial Complex, the subculture where students must craft themselves into the perfect specimens for college admission and often lose their authenticity, love of learning, and sense of self in the process.
A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.
We are all racers at heart, and what we want to see is out and out racing, and may the quickest man win.
