Some of the most amazing reading about the sport is coming out of Phil Burgess' column in nhra.com. Notably his piece on Warren Coburn and Miller and today's poignant piece on R. Gaines Markley only serve to remind us of the human drama behind the scenes of the sport in its "golden era." Interesting to compare Markley's "blog" of those times with today's drivers.

fiction warning!!!!!!!

"We had to hook up the battery charger to the battery to keep the truck running for the next two hours."

versus

"I had to fly to ****** to attend a sponsor sales meeting. I ate at this great Sushi restaurant, went shopping at the mall for new shoes and watched the game in my hotel room. The bummer part of my trip was my flight being delayed 30 minutes. That really irriated me."

How far we have come......

Mark
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