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With age comes wisdom.

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Good morning reader,  A part of making this film is gathering the origin story (that is a new hip term for history I understand).  A linear story made some sense when we started.  I began to assemble personal and donated photos and stories presented in John Blaizer's Forgotten Heros of the Speedways :  The Riding Mechanics.  John spent several hours speaking with me and sharing his collection for the film. A real racer heart.  That was back in 2020.  Almost three years later,  we are back at it.  Last month we were able to steal some time from  Jacques Couture  - my boss from my beginnings in the sport seem below looking ,,, well - like a boss.     While Dana and I were noodling through the production over lunch in Sonoma, we came to the realization that Jacques was right - he usually is - that the subject is too big for a single film, "...can't tell the story in 90 minutes. It's too big. Plus, no one has an attention span anymore."  Our discussion led to the gene