A Flower In The Hurricane

October, 1985

Frank Hawley nodded me over to the starting-line guardrail at the Gainesville, Florida, speedway. Jerry Boozer and his wife, Brenda, were 30 yards away, leaning against the hood of their pickup, talking quietly. "I can strut around here with my diamond rings and all my sponsors," Hawley said. Then he pointed toward Brenda and Jerry. "But that's where this sport came from."He meant drag racing, and the rings he was talking about were the two he owns for being the world-champio...