Sunfish SSN-649 doing an Emergency blow from test depth while making a full bell... felt like a ride up on one of the Empire State Building's fast elevators... and the landing was so soft! Amazing. Only did it once during sea trials, coming out of the yards in Norfolk. I still haven't forgotten it, and that was in…

fly big d, fly.

I loved his observations on the difference between racing now and 40 years ago - both in terms of the stress of driving cars with harsher braking and more downforce, and of the informal social atmosphere between teams, banished by all the money that's gotten into motorsport. Physically and emotionally, it's a harder…