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...padded helmet encases my head, and four thick safety belts intersect in a bulbous metal codpiece. As my two-ton Chevy Silverado truck edges toward the starting line, all I can feel is the plastic barf bag stuffed in the pocket of my flame-resistant jumpsuit. Behind the wheel sits Walker Evans, 36, a general contractor from Riverside, Calif, who has won 14 of his past 17 off-road races. As the green flag rises, the final spectator salute of uplifted cups of Coors reminds me of a well-wisher's warning: "Walker won't stop...
...thwack of my helmet against the seat confirms Newton's third law of motion. The air is piercingly fresh, and the desert mountains glow golden in the morning sun. But soon the drive will become a spastic, three-hour Cinerama focused on 100 miles of lifeless mesquite moonscape-beginning in Laughlin and running across sand washes, over mountains, around canyons and back. "Howdy doody!" Evans yells, skipping the yellow truck over a 5-ft. ravine. "I can't stay away. Racing off-road is like narcotics to a dope addict...
...think it's an outstanding thing. Jimmie has really accomplished a lot this season," Harvard coach Joe Restic said last night. Kubacki also won the Golden Helmet award, given by the Boston sportswriters, Restic said. "These are really two outstanding awards," he added. added...
...much a not very well-scripted Wild Kingdom: "See the little gray animals. See how they run and jump." As Armstrong ambled, I almost forgot about the rows and rows of Mission Controllers. But in the glistening photographs, there was no face, only mirrors, on the front of the helmet. And the lunar module was imposing, monolithic, stark in the sharpness of the pictures, technology brought home, hard...
...square by square, on the walls of not-exactly-a-gallery in Central Square, are three NASA glossies; and the mirror in the helmet almost grins...