"Pylon School Payback"

Rookies Johnny "Smokey" Johnson, in Race 49, "Smokin' Sue," and Mike Gillian in Race 69, "The Big Easy," battle while in close quarters as they race around Outer Pylon Eight and into the straightaway. Both attended their first Pylon School in June, and the training has obviously paid off.

Racing is the truest form of "Baptism Under Fire" that exists in a peacetime world. Air Racing even more so, since closed-course "Pylon Racing" is the World's Fastest and Most Extreme Motorsport."

photograph © 2000 Dominique Thirot all rights reserved

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