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AW book review.(News)
Byline: ROGER HART
Motor racing is rife with unfulfilled dreams, squandered potential and broken lives. Tragedies all, to be sure-it's the nature of the business. When a driver gets behind the wheel, he knows the risks. As fans of the sport, we must also realize the potential for disaster is but a heartbeat away.
Knowing that doesn't make those losses any more palatable, though, and in a new book chronicling the life of drag racer Darrell Gwynn, author Erik Arneson details the painful realities of a young life torn apart in a 250-mph fireball. It makes us wonder what draws us to the sport in the first place.
Gwynn grew up around drag racing-his father Jerry was an accomplished sportsman racer. At 19, Darrell, with an NHRA license in his pocket, was tearing up tracks across the country. By the mid-1980s he was piloting a Top Fuel car and gaining recognition for his performance on the track. He was young, talented, charismatic and good-looking-his girlfriend was the Orange Bowl queen. "The Kid,'' as he was known, had it all.
Until Easter Sunday ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, AW book review.(News)