This is Rumbull Strip Vermont America Heilman.

In Vermont, in the summer, Thursday night means one thing, Thunder Road.

Welcome. When they start the main event, I don't care where you are. When the main event for the big part is starting.

When the main event for the big part started, it's full crazed here on the back of your neck.

To work his way around the 50 of J. LeCaire.

People say racing is boring because you just drive around in circles but there's no two

laps that are the same. There's no accident that's the same. You don't know how that

pass is going to turn out. You don't know how that accident's going to turn out.

Most professional sports in turn out. You don't know how that accident's going to turn out?

Most professional sports in America are children's games played by adults.

This one has always had risk in it and we never said it was anything but what it is

so it can be very hard and very brutal.

It's a rush to go that fast and be on the edge of control. I mean one end of the car is going to slip.

Either the front end is going to slide a little bit or the back end is going

to slide a bit. Every lap. So you're on the edge of which end is going to give up first and

you go as fast as you can.

It came out to the depression where life was worth five bucks.

You could get a guy to jump 100 feet into a master's for five bucks.

And those open cockpit midget cars, they got killed every other weekend.

I mean, there was no question that what separated all of it from baseball,

or organized sport was that you can die for. As we've rolled, I kind of chuckled to myself, you know, it was just, wow, this is interesting.

Soon's I stopped. Wow, this is interesting.

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