Did Not Finish

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In the lexicon of motor racing terminology, a Did Not Finish classification is awarded to any driver who does not complete the race and is therefore excluded in the results.

The security guard blocked my van’s path at the competitors’ entrance of Stowe Park race circuit. He asked to see my team and vehicle passes as if my Formula Ford racecar on the trailer I was hauling wasn’t all the identification I needed. It was a bitter October night, so the poor guy probably needed something to justify spending his Friday night in the middle of the Wiltshire countryside. He handed my paperwork back to me and pulled back the gate.

Dylan took the paperwork from me. He’s my best friend and represents one half of my pit crew. My grandfather, Steve, completes the team and constitutes the brains. He worked the pits for Lotus all through its glory days from the mid-sixties until founder Colin Chapman’s death in the early eighties. Steve wasn’t with us for this one, though. He’d whisked his girlfriend off for a romantic weekend getaway. I swear the man got more action than I did.

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