VROOM! VROOM! VROOM!

Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

IN THE EARLY 1990s, I was at Atlanta Motor Speedway during an ARCA race, and I wanted to go from the infield to the pressbox.

AMS had a walk-through tunnel under the track; it was on the frontstretch then. Several people were ahead of me (and a few were walking the other way) as I headed out.

I'll never forget the first time the ARCA cars came down the track with me in the tunnel. I heard a high-pitched and super-fast VROOM! VROOM! VROOM! as the cars seemed to go into my right ear and out of my left ear. It was an unbelievable experience, and I couldn't wait to get out of the tunnel.

I never walked through that tunnel again during a race.

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More entries from TARJ

• Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)

• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing

EDITOR@WORK blog entries 

• You really DO need an editor

• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

• What I charge (it's a deal) and what I edit

• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn•

Entries from The Dog Blog

• Katie cried

• Growl and pull

• 12-plus years with my dog Lady

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• OOH! OOH! The stereophonic huskies

• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

More blog entries by Tom Gillispie

• Resume for a writer and editor

• An editor's views on powerful writing

• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

Anecdotes by Tom Gillispie

• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer outta there!