F1: The Movie
Poster and photo images via IMDb.com Seeing “F1: The Movie” with my 11-year-old grandson reminded me of my own motor racing career when I was about his age more than a half-century ago. It took place on a go-kart track at the Marlboro sports car raceway outside Baltimore. My dad would pack my kart in the trunk of his Pontiac Bonneville, and we would go racing a couple of Sundays a month. That go-kart was the greatest joy of my junior high school wonder years in an era when a young senator from Massachusetts was inaugurated president of the United States one sunny snow-covered Friday morning a few miles from our home in the Washington suburbs. Feeling like that kid ...