These men will do anything to race cars. The late Davey Allison once strapped Velcro to a cast on his arm to attach it to his steering wheel. Years ago, Ricky Rudd duct-taped his eyes open for the Daytona 500 after a crash had left his face swollen and his eyes shut. Dale Earnhardt once jumped out of an ambulance after a crash, got back into his car and finished the race. In 1993, when I went end over end at Talladega and woke up in a helicopter, that was real.
Mere mortals shake their heads.
This is not for most of us. But, for the men who drive in Daytona, it's exactly right. This is what they know. This is what they do.