"When you're dreaming at night, you dream one day about racing a car like that.
He was saving up his money to buy a racing car, a dream he had had since he was a young boy, but his prospects as a singer came to an abrupt end when Morisse, his sponsor, committed suicide in September 1970.
"When I started racing, it was a dream.
If that weren't enough it's now impinged on the mayoral race as a dream pseudo-controversy for Boris, an opportunity to flaunt his inclusivity and his modernising credentials just before polling day.
With "Racing Dreams," a largely upbeat film about the hopes of kid race-car drivers in the South, he portrayed Nascar much the way "Hoops Dreams" did the N.B.A., as a high-stakes fantasy.
With a backstory that reads like a contemporary version of "National Velvet," Union Rags is a racing publicist's dream.
Like a pint-size "Hoop Dreams," "Racing Dreams" is the unusual sports movie that is more interested in the lives of children on the verge of adolescence than in giving viewers the cheap thrill of vicarious competition and heaping glory on the winners.
The Lottery, Pressure Cooker, and Racing Dreams provide a glimpse of the middle ground not covered by the extreme pictures presented in Waiting for 'Superman' and Race to Nowhere.
Mr. Shannon, a motor racing enthusiast, had dreamed up the idea of an indoor track for his bowling alley in Manhattan.
For his nonnarrated "Racing Dreams," which includes a 47-word introductory text card, Mr. Curry tucked his writing credit in the middle of the scroll at the end of the documentary, where, he said, "it blows by most audiences".
He said a points finish in the top 10 in the race would be a "dream come true".
