INDIANAPOLIS — Half a dozen years ago, before real-world problems shook up their lives like dice, the scene would have been almost funny. Seated in a chair placed front-and-center in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway media center was Bob Jenkins, broadcasting legend, soft-spoken and gentlemanly. Behind him stood Robin Miller, celebrated…
INDIANAPOLIS — Half a dozen years ago, before real-world problems shook up their lives like dice, the scene would have been almost funny. Seated in a chair placed front-and-center in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway media center was Bob Jenkins, broadcasting legend, soft-spoken and gentlemanly. Behind him stood Robin Miller, celebrated…
INDIANAPOLIS — Half a dozen years ago, before real-world problems shook up their lives like dice, the scene would have been almost funny. Seated in a chair placed front-and-center in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway media center was Bob Jenkins, broadcasting legend, soft-spoken and gentlemanly. Behind him stood Robin Miller, celebrated…
INDIANAPOLIS — Half a dozen years ago, before real-world problems shook up their lives like dice, the scene would have been almost funny. Seated in a chair placed front-and-center in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway media center was Bob Jenkins, broadcasting legend, soft-spoken and gentlemanly. Behind him stood Robin Miller, celebrated…
It was impossible not to smile. A blue-collar Oklahoma kid named Christopher Bell had nosed his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota into the lead with just over a lap remaining in the second NASCAR Cup Series race of the season, on the Daytona Int’l Speedway road course, and you could almost hear the whooping and hollering in living rooms across America.
The death this past November of legendary sprint car mechanic Kenny Woodruff reduced by one the ranks of American racing’s Knights of the Road, a generation for whom the highway was just one more obstacle the sport threw at a man.
Sooner or later, the best days and nights become chunks of time. Spend enough years around this sport and you find yourself no longer breaking things down by seasons, but by clusters of seasons.
