Originally Posted by Jerry Shaw:
You know you've seen a great race, that when it's over you feel like you've been on the biggest, baddest roller coaster ride imaginable. But the difference is on roller coasters you only get to take one lap and then it's over. We took another lap on this one, after every restart. You also know you've seen a great race when you're at one with the talent level that we had tonight and the winner fought his way from 15th place and ended up not only the winner, but also the Hard Charger. It's even more amazing when you consider that this same victor just three months ago was in a fiery highway crash, where he suffered a broken arm, a broken foot, a cracked sternum, broken ribs, and a punctured lung. It couldn't feel good to be strapped into tightly and to be thrashed around violently by a midget car for 30 laps. And to be involved in the knock down, drag out rumble we saw tonight. I'd say the broken right foot appears to have healed, though. And is exciting as this one was, God only knows what we might have seen had Kyle Larson not flipped on the white flag lap. Because watching him playing with fire, lap after lap, the way he was attacking the cushion was a thing to behold. And the way he charged into the ledge in turn 2, when he pushed the boundries just a little too far, said he wasn't going to settle for second place tonight. Fantastic job by these great racers. Also to Joe and his crew for giving them a track that they could go out there and create a masterpiece on.
Jerry
Jerry I sit next to a gentleman named Randy Shaw at Lincoln Park. Any relation?