Integral to NASCAR's founding in the late 1940s was Bill France, an auto mechanic and sometime race-car driver.
Nick and Billy Smith, California-born brothers, grew up admiring the derring-do of their father's father, a mechanical engineer and sometime race-car driver named H.
Residents said Marko, a sometime racing driver notorious for his wild behavior, for trashing cars and failing to get more than a high school education, had left Pozarevac, where his parents had grown up and where the family has at least one house, for the last time on Wednesday.
But the prospect of nuclear proliferation in volatile regions is all too real and the chances of nuclear use somewhere, sometime, a racing certainty.
As a first step, they plan to seek city approval to rent the fortress for a demonstration race sometime in the next year as a "proof of concept," Mr. Simes said.
"The style of racing and the endurance and strength aspect has changed," said the BBC's F1 commentator, and sometime racer, Ben Edwards.
A New Jersey native, racehorse owner and sometime habitué of Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course, Parcells fell back on a hard-earned lesson from the racetrack.
Although the aircraft he flew, a blue-and-white Citabria Super Decathlon, is an aerobatic plane, friends said Mr. Fossett did not enjoy doing airplane tricks and was most likely scouting dry lake beds in the high desert region where he might try to break the land-speed record in a race car sometime in 2008.
But the people closest to it are wary of the claims made by experts such as Ray Kurzweil, chief engineer at Google, that the human race will sometime soon be eclipsed by intelligent machines.
Expect to hear the marketing buzz about 1440p television sometime next year.And the resolution race doesn't stop there.
