Wild Wheels Author:Don McKay - editor In twenty years of watching motor racing and pondering its attractions, I have come to limited conclusions: everyone drives, has driven, or wants to drive an automobile; and therefore, everyone can identify with the race driver, who does this one thing so well. Furthermore, the risk of death is forever present in automobile racing. — It has long... more » been held gospel that racegoers hope to see drivers killed. I do not believe this. I do believe that they want to see drivers go to the very edge of the precipice, to the rim of death, but they want them to come back. It is important that they come back, because the spectator so tightly identifies himself with the driver. He does no want to die; therefore, he does not want the driver to die. But he does want the driver to demonstrate his bravery by hazarding death.« less