Hello, it's your buddy, Jeff here. And this week, Ray and I had every intention to bring you a brand new New England legend story, but sometimes life gets in the way. You might notice, Ray's not with me right now. I feel lost, if I'm being perfectly honest. A few weeks ago, I got COVID. After all this time, it finally got me. And I'm on the tail end of it

now, feeling much better. But boy, it was a doozy. And now Ray has COVID. And before you go

jumping to any conclusions, I don't think I'm the person that gave it to him. It's just rampant right now.

So sadly, this week, we're going to have to go back to the vault and bring

you something from the past, but we will be back next week with another brand new story.

Apologies for getting derailed by this virus that's just ravaging all of us, but it happened to

us too. So anyway, thank you for hanging in there with us. And I thought

this week it was appropriate that we talk about a person who was in a hurry, because we are indeed

in a hurry to get better. And if you or someone you know has COVID, we wish you a speedy recovery.

Okay, until next week.

Wow, Car 23 is taking a commanding lead in this race, Jeff.

Yeah, man, he is really haul in the mail.

And I love the name of this racetrack here in West Haven, Vermont.

Devil's Bowl Speedway.

It's a good name.

Is it related to this week's legend?

Some devil creature from around here or something?

Well, the track isn't related to the story, but these race cars definitely are.

All right, how so?

Well, if not for a series of events that began way back in 1920, I'm not sure this would even be a sport today. Oh, you're talking about prohibition. Right. The day they outlawed booze in the United States. I am. Car racing was born when bootleggers souped up their cars so they could outrun the police when they're running illegal booze. Pretty soon, these rum runners wanted to see just who had the fastest car, and boom,

NASCAR was born.

And here we are, watching these folks racing at Vermont.

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