American Racing News Vol 1, Issue 2 Issue 8 | Page 97

life are about to be written as
your forthcoming life is
unknown—some blank pages—
to everyone except God. “God
rewrote the text of my life when
I opened the book of my heart
to his eyes,” (2 Samuel 22:25
The Message). Even parents
don’t know what this human
book will tell them as they see
their children’s pages opened
daily.
A racing career—like a human
life—starts with a blank page as
the written assignment has yet
to be published. The racing
passion starts with the personal
proposal to publish your own
biography of becoming a bona
fide racer.
A date is now set for the racing
marriage: Once man and
machine become intimate, it
spurns growth in rapid fashion,
as the first page of the book is
all about the conception of how
the drag racing machine will
appear and act after it has been
birthed.

The—formerly—blank first page
and subsequent pages of your
racing book begins with
thoughts, ideas, sketches, and
written notes for the finished
document. But this new book is
far from complete. Many pages
will be written over the course
of years as your racing program
grows from infancy into
adulthood. This process takes
time to mature into a good
story line.
Most people in motorsports
have yet to finish their book, as
they are still writing their
manuscript. They may have
written many chapters, but the
book is far from its final chapter.
Unfortunately in racing, some of
our beloved friends’ books were
prematurely finished.
Sad but true…reading their final
chapter makes us blue…we
were with them while they
grew…even sat with them in a
church pew…their memory
fresh as the morning dew…we
pray they had an eternal