With age comes wisdom.
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