The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

very close to where a driver would be holding the (steering) wheel.

It looks as though a slow earthquake began to split it years ago. I have to grip the steering wheel of my Ranger very tightly as I dare to stay about 10 miles an hour slower than my faster sedan and coupe rivals, praying for deliverance at the county line.

Dale [Earnhardt] Jr. actually held that steering wheel of the Budweiser car. Jeff Gordon actually held the steering wheel of that DuPont car.

and angle of vision, dust, gravity, solitude,
and the part of the law which is the world's waiting
and the part of the law which is my waiting,
and the part which is my impatience—now; now?—

though there are, there really are
things in the world, you must believe me.