Just when you thought your favorite driver is the biggest, baddest ever….

[Crashmagnet]

Great post and thanks for the info CIRF, honestly until recently I had never heard of Ted Horn. But I came across his career stats and was shocked, this cat was the man. There are others besides him as well. Also a good point made by ride height about WWII. The men of this era just seem absolutely fearless to me.

[CIRF]

Your welcome Crashmagnet. I had to go back to an old issue of Open Wheel Magazine from about 20 years ago to retrieve some bits and pieces of the info contained in my previous post. I used to remember a lot of that stuff but time kinda' dims the details.

As far as the WWII generation is concerned, there is no doubt those people were absolutely duty and honor driven to do whatever it took to get through The Great Depression and WWII. It's no wonder the guys and women that survived that conflict returned home unafraid of most anything. They'd already seen the worst of the worst.

If we were confronted with the same imminent danger to our way of life the loss of WWII would have presented I'm not sure we'd have enough service age men and women to effectively thwart that sort of evil. I think too many would feel defending our way of life isn't in their plans and wouldn't want to be bothered.