"Trouble, Turn Two. Go high, go high ."
Kane Jackson saw only smoke through his windshield, but he responded instinctively to his spotter's instructions. Less than a second later, a red, white and blue car slid past the left side of his race car. "The Hatchet?"
"Yeah," Kane's crew chief, Harry Mercer, responded, his tone flat. "He's talking. Not hurt ."
"Good." On both counts, he thought, very aware that millions of people via online simulcasts could hear every word he said into his radio. Privately Kane couldn't deny his sense of relief that the points leader for the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Championship, Patrick 'The Hatchet' Williams was probably done for the day. Kane had a tricky road to make the top ten—The Chase as it had been dubbed by NASCAR—and Pat was a semifriend, but definitely the competition.
Obstacles are just one smart move away from the path to greatness. His father's words whispered through his brain so sud ...
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