“I had always wanted to drive and had just turned 16,” he said. “I had always gone with him to the races and we had gone to a little track in Alabama, Phenix City Drag Strip, and he asked me if I wanted to drive. Sure. I remember the first guy I raced, I left on him so bad and then let off at the finish line ‘cause I didn’t want to break out and the guy went right around me. I caught hell about that."
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