"The Story" blog

What kind of guy sets himself on fire? Let me rephrase that. What rational person douses himself with gasoline and sets it of

He arrived at the Ohio home on an Autumn Friday afternoon wearing wire-frame glasses and a boyish smile. His mind had be

In late summer 1988 Jimmy Sills was a broken man. He was homesick, beaten mentally and physically, and heartsick followi

How bad do you want to race? How much do you want it? Are you willing to endure long hours of work, endless road miles, and w

Are you counting the days?Winter is deep, and hanging on. Snow covers the ground. Icicles dangle from the eaves. Dogs set a n

(This is an excerpt from the Jimmy Owens book, The Newport Nightmare.) When I began racing super late models in 2004 it wasn&